Ojibwe film programmer Jesse Wente is the first director of the newly created Indigenous Screen Office (ISO), an initiative launched last year by funding agencies, producers and broadcasters. The ISO’s current mission includes increasing representation of...
TIFF says it’s replacing its Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival, which was held every January, with a new screening series for homegrown projects. The organization says the new series will offer “each feature film the opportunity to have a full theatrical run at TIFF Bell...
SMPIA member Brysen Mann’sbook The Xeno Manifesto is now available at all the Regina and Saskatoon locations of Chapters, Indigo and Coles bookstores. Check it out!
The N.S. provincial government has significantly increased its film and television production fund. The fund will increase by $6 million this fiscal year, to $26 million. Nova Scotia’s production incentive fund was initially introduced in 2015 after the province...
In recent months, a handful of documentaries have drawn audiences to the box office in droves. Kicking off the summer of hot ticket docs was RBG, Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s biopic of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on May 8. The 97-minute feature,...
