The partnership between the City of Toronto, the CFC and iThentic gives five emerging filmmakers $10,000 towards production of their films, and the opportunity to be mentored by acclaimed Canadian filmmakers.
The new initiative, replacing the Features Comedy Lab, will put a deeper emphasis on boosting Canadian projects south of the border and developing relationships in the U.S. marketplace.
Participants in the Just For Laughs-backed Canadian Film Centre program are also being mentored by Zanne Devine, Anne Fletcher and Kirsten Smith.
From Kim Cattrall to Kirstine Stewart, Canadian celebs, industry personalities and media executives were out in force Feb. 8 to raise funds for the Canadian Film Centre.
The Hollywood screenwriter and director tells Playback Daily he was honoured to be asked by Norman Jewison to be chair of film programs at the Canadian Film Centre.
The Hollywood screenwriter will help market the institute and its talent internationally as chair of its film programs.
Bell Media is backing a lab to cultivate Canada’s next Hart Hanson and Tassie Cameron.
The veteran thesp will participate in the Canadian Film Centre’s Actors Conservatory in Toronto.
Kirstine Stewart, Scott Dyer, Corrie Coe and Rupert Dilnott-Cooper are the latest additions to the board at the advanced training centre.
Joe Dinicol, Linda Kash, Enrico Colantoni and Dave Foley have jumped on board Servitude, Warren Sonoda’s waiter rebellion comedy from Buck Productions and Victory Man Productions now in production.