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Telefilm backs new films from Falardeau, Poole, Picard
Fresh from his triumphant Best Picture prize for Congorama at Quebec's Jutras earlier this week, Quebecois auteur Philippe Falardeau has been greenlit by Telefilm Canada for his next production, C'est Pas Moi Je Le Jure. It was one of ten films in the latest round of French-language project funding by ...
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Canadian actors' strike ends this time for real
After a false start earlier this week, the six-week Canadian actors' strike seems to have been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. Last Friday, the Alliance of Cinema, Television and Radio Actors (ACTRA), the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and the Association des producteurs de film et ...
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Seville clocks up Berlin deals on Poor Boy's Game
Seville International has closed multiple sales on Clement Virgo's Berlin Panorama entry Poor Boy's Game starring Danny Glover, Rossif Sutherland and Laura Regan. Tot Media bought the film for Spain, CCV for Scandinavia, All Interactive Distribution for Australia, Epelpol for Poland, Video Filmes for Brazil, Teleview International for the Middle ...
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Dart, Rogalski join TIFF short film selection team
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has added two programmers to its Short Cuts Canada short film selection team. Artist and programmer Jay Dart and filmmaker and curator Alex Rogalski will join programmer Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo. Dart is producer and creative director of RESFEST Digital Film Festival and production ...
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US producers block Canadian strike resolution
A resolution to the Canadian performers strike hit a road block this weekend when representatives of US producers refused to ratify an agreement struck by ACTRA and Canadian producers on Friday. Negotiators for both ACTRA and Canadian Film and Television Producers Association (CFTPA) and the Association des producteurs de film ...
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Congorama is the big winner at Quebec's Jutra Awards
Philippe Falardeau's Congorama was the big winner at Quebec's 9th annual Jutra Awards on Sunday night. The Canada-Belgium co-production, which premiered in the Cannes Directors Fortnight in 2006, won five prizes out of six nominations, beating out Bon Cop, Bad Cop and Un Dimanche A Kigali, both of which had ...
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ACTRA and Canadian producers reach tentative deal
The Canadian performers strike is close to resolution. ACTRA and representatives of Canadian and US producers reached a tentative deal Friday. Both sides cautioned that the deal is subject to ratification but observers suggest this latest round of negotiation will stick.ACTRA went on strike on January 8, the first time ...
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The Rocket wins nine Genies, but Bon Cop is best picture
Charles Biname's The Rocket, a bio-pic of a French Canadian hockey legend won nine Genie Awards for its 13 nominations but failed to grab the crown. Bon Cop, Bad Cop, the bilingual buddy cop film that conquered the national box office, was dubbed Best Picture at the 27th Genie Awards ...
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Mendes buys Winslet passion project Mabel Stark
Sam Mendes' Neal Street Productions has optioned the film rights to The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, a novel which has long been a passion project of his wife Kate Winslet.The book, by Canadian author Robert Hough, is set in the the world of a tiger trainer during the 1920s ...
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ACTRA strike at impasse despite mediation
Canadian performers remain on strike as ACTRA and the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) failed to reach a compromise despite two days of talks with a government-appointed mediator. Today, each side blamed the other for the deadlock. The point of contention is new media rights. ACTRA says it ...
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Bon Cop Canada 's top-grossing film for 2006
Berlin market title and bilingual buddy cop movie Bon Cop, Bad Cop was named the recipient of the 2007 Golden Reel Award, a token prize presented annually at the Genie Awards to the top-grossing Canadian film from the previous year. Nominated in ten categories including Best Picture, the film broke ...
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IMAX signs two cinema deals in China
IMAX Corp and the China Science and Technology Museum have signed an agreement that will see two IMAX cinemas installed at a new museum in Beijing by early 2009. One cinema will feature IMAX wraparound Dome technology and the other its 3D technology. The new facility will be part of ...
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Cineplex expands live opera screenings to 34 cinemas
Canadian exhibitor Cineplex Entertainment is increasing the number of screens devoted to video presentations of the Metropolitan Opera live from New York 's Lincoln Centre. The high-definition transmissions will be delivered via satellite to 34 cinemas across Canada, up from 28. 'The first three transmissions, Mozart's Magic Flute, Bellini's I ...
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New TIFF headquarters to break ground in Spring
The Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) expects to break ground in the spring on its much-anticipated Festival Centre, according to TIFFG. The site consists of TIFFG's Festival Centre, a five-storey podium building housing the Group's operations, a gallery, five cinemas, educational suites and a film reference library, and Festival ...
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HotDocs welcome German, Italian, Brazilian delegations
Hots Doc Canadian Documentary Film Festival has announced it will play host to official delegations from Germany, Italy and Brazil at its 14th annual event, April 19-29. Each of the three nations will be represented by 20 to 30 established producers and broadcasters working in the format. The key events ...
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Lapointe and Kwan share Claude Jutra Award
First-time filmmakers Julia Kwan (Eve And The Fire Horse) and Stephane Lapointe (La Vie Secrete Des Gens Heureux /The Secret Life of Happy People) were announced as the recipients of the 2007 Claude Jutra Award. It will be the first time the prize, presented annually during the Genie Awards for ...
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Hot Docs inaugurates Tracey tribute prize
The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival will present a new prize in memory of the late Canadian documentary filmmaker Lindalee Tracey. Endowed by Tracey's colleagues, friends and family, the prize will be awarded annually to an emerging Canadian filmmaker who exemplifies Tracey's approach to the documentary form: 'with passion, ...
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France to be focus of Halifax co-production market
The Strategic Partners international coproduction market in Canada will focus on France at its 10th anniversary event this September. The market takes place during Halifax's Atlantic Film Festival. According to Strategic Partners director Jan Miller, exit surveys from the 2006 edition showed 'Canadian interest in working with France is no ...
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Court lets ACTRA's strike strategy stand
Canadian performers representative ACTRA won a preliminary battle in its labour dispute with Canadian and US producers when the Superior Court of Ontario today dismissed an injunction application from the Canadian Film & Television Production Association (CFTPA). The CFTPA was asking the court to deem illegal the letters of continuation ...
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Bogeydom acquires Kitamura's LoveDeath for EFM launch
Toronto-based Bogeydom Licensing has acquired world rights to Japanese cult director Ryuhei Kitamura's LoveDeath, a production of Tokyo-based companies Napalm Films and Suplex Inc. The film, which premieres at Berlin's European Film Market, follows two lovers whose passion for each other incites the wrath of everyone around them, from the ...