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Canadian production companies see 11% revenue jump
Canada's film and televisionproduction community reported $2.55bn (C$2.9bn) in revenues in 2004, accordingto data released by Statistics Canada. It's an 11% increase since the lastnational snapshot of the sector in 2001. There were fewer companies tosurvey - 688 compared to 728 - but the profit margin for thesurvivors has improved ...
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Telefilm Canada funds four films through Quebec office
Telefilm Canada's Quebecoffice has agreed to fund four projects, including Capitalisme Sentimental, the first feature of writer-director Olivier Asselinsince 1997's The Seat Of The Soul. Three projects will beFrench-language and one in English. Funding is through Telefilm's Low BudgetIndependent Feature Film Assistance Program, which provides support up to$176,000 (C$200,000) per ...
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National Film Board Of Canada hires Din, Van Beusekom
The National Film Board ofCanada has appointed Ravida Din as executive producer of the Quebec Centre andMichelle van Beusekom as assistant director general of English Programming. Din was previously assistantdirector general for English programming and was associate producer on themulti-award winning NFB title The Tree That Remembers. In her new ...
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Kathy Bates joins jury of Montreal World Film Festival
Oscar-winning US actressKathy Bates will serve on the jury of the 30th Montreal World Film Festival.The veteran star of stage and screen is best known for her roles in Titanic, where she played "the unsinkable Molly Brown", and Misery(1990), as the tormentor of JamesCaan's author in the adaptation of the ...
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Toronto announces Spanish films in festival including Labyrinth
Guillermo Del Toro's Pan'sLabyrinth will have its NorthAmerican premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. TheCannes competition title was among seven Spanish-language features announcedTuesday for screening during the September event. Another Cannes title is Fantasma, from Lisandro Alonso, which was a special screeningin the Quinzaine.In announcing the pictures,Toronto organizers ...
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Brownsey named executive director of British Columbia Film
British Columbia Film hasappointed Richard Brownsey as its new executive director, effective September1. Brownsey, formerly executivedirector of the British Columbia Arts Council and director of the ProvincialCultural Services Branch, was an architect of the province's film andtelevision tax credit system. "I am looking forward tothis challenge," said Brownsey in a ...
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Lapointe's Secret Life to close Montreal World Film Festival
Quebec director StephaneLapointe's La Vie Secrete Des Gens Heureux (The Secret Life Of Happy People) will have its world premiere at the Closing Night presentation of theMontreal World Film Festival.Produced by Roger Frappierand Luc Vandal of Max Films, the film stars Gilbert Sicotte, Marc Paquet,Catherine de Lean, Marie Gignac, Gilles ...
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TIFF will play host to King's Men, Beethoven
New films from StevenZallian, Bob Balaban and Agnieska Holland are among the first titles to beannounced as world premieres at this year's Toronto International Film FestivalBased on Robert PennWarren's novel - itself inspired by the life of notorious US politicianHuey P. Long - Zaillian's All The King's Men is his ...
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Toronto names 25 North American premieres
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced 25 NorthAmerican premieres for its 31st outing this September, a line-updescribed as the best picks fromthe 2005-2006 international festival calendar. The selection includes Cannes highlights such as Ken Loach's Palmed'Or winner The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Grand Prize winner Bruno Dumont's ...
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Toronto names 25 North American premieres
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has announced 25 North American premieres for its 31stouting this September, a line-up described as the best picks from the 2005-2006 internationalfestival calendar. The selection includesCannes highlights such as Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner The Wind That ShakesThe Barley, Grand Prize winner BrunoDumont's Flandres, AlejandroGonzalez Inarritu's ...
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Telefilm Canada faces Inuit distributor controversy
Telefilm Canada is underfire from a Canadian aboriginal distribution company seeking assistance inscreening The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen for aboriginal audiences in remote communities. Isuma Distribution Inc.(IDI), the releasing arm of Rasmussen filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk's and Norman Cohn's Igloolik IsumaProductions, has requested nearly $500,000 (C$550,000) to fund a travelingdigital projection ...
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Fifth Potter will have IMAX release, may contain 3-D sections
Harry Potter And TheOrder Of The Phoenix, the fifthinstallment of the Warner Bros. franchise, will be released simultaneously inconventional and IMAX cinemas next summer. Warner Bros. and IMAX areconsidering converting parts of the film into IMAX 3D, according to GregFoster, chairman and president of IMAX Filmed Entertainment. The third Pottertitle ...
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Ganz to receive tribute at Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World FilmFestival will pay tribute to veteran German actor Bruno Ganz. The star of suchfilms as Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall and Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips will be on hand to celebrate the MWFF's 30thanniversary. The festival will present the North American premiere of his latest film, Fredi M. ...
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Arcand's Dark Age gets Telefilm Canada funding
New productions fromQuebecois auteurs Denys Arcand and Bernard Emond are among seven new featurefilms greenlit by Telefilm Canada's Quebec office - five in French, two in English.Arcand's project, L'AgeDes Tenebres (Dark Age), is a majority Canada/France co-production betweenDenise Robert's Cinemaginaire and Paris-based Monvoisin Productions. In thevein of Arcand's Barbarian Invasiontheme, ...
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Glover heads the cast of Virgo's latest Poor Boy's Game
Clement Virgo has startedprincipal photography in Halifax on his fourth feature, Poor Boy's Game, starring Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland andfeaturing Flex Alexander and Laura Regan. The film isproduced by Virgo and his long-time producing partner Damon D'Oliveira'sConquering Lion Pictures alongside Chaz Thorne's Standing 8 Productions. Thorneand Virgo share the ...
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Canada's fledgling Delphis unveils multiple Cannes sales
Delphis Films has sold fourterritories on Andrei Kravchuk's foreign-language Oscar submissionTheItalian, one of a clutch of titlesthe Montreal-based sales company has sold out of Cannes.The recently launched Delphissigned theatrical and DVD deals with Fidalgo for Norway, Kamras for Finland,Cine Video y TV for Mexico and Multivision for Bulgaria. The company ...
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Rezo strikes 12 Cannes pre-sales on Canada's Belle Bete
Paris-based sales companyRezo Films has announced Cannes pre-sales on 12 territories for Quebecois titleLa Belle Bete, Karim Hussain'sadaptation of the Marie-Claire Blais novel. The film, co-produced byMontreal-based companies Equinoxe Productions and Screen Machine, has dealswith United Home Entertainment for Thailand and Vietnam, California Filmes for Brazil, Odeon for Greece ...
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Kigali crosses C$1m at Quebec box office for Equinoxe
Eight weeks into itsrelease, Robert Favreau's Rwandan genocide drama A Sunday In Kigali (Un Dimanche A Kigali) is the first Quebecois film of 2006 to pass theC$1m ($900,000) benchmark at the local box office. Shot on location in Rwanda,the film stars veteran Quebec star Luc Picard and Senegalese actress FatouN'Diaye. ...
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Pike, Dillane cast in Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces
UKactors Rosamund Pike and Stephen Dillane will take key roles in Canadianfilmmaker Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces, the long-gestating project to be produced by Robert Lantos'Serendipity Point Films with Athens-based Cinegram SA. Croatianstalwart Rade Serbedzija is also cast in a lead role.Basedon the Orange Prize-winning 1997 novel by Anne Michaels, the ...
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Railroad All Stars to open Hot Docs in Toronto
Chema Rodriguez's TheRailroad All Stars will open the13th Hot Docs Toronto International Documentary Film Festival on April 28. The Spanish title, whichpremiered at the Berlinale, tells of the efforts of Guatemalan prostitutes whoform a football team in an effort to raise awareness and support. It's one of 99 titlesannounced today, ...