Archive for May, 2006
Telefilm Canada helps Canadians do brisk business at Cannes 2006
30 May 2006Telefilm Canada is proud to announce yet another successful international initiative. Like the highly successful Canada-U.K. Immersion held in London in February, Perspective Canada_Cannes: A selection of new films at the Market proved fruitful for Canadian filmmakers and sales agents attending the 2006 Cannes Festival.
Telefilm spearheaded this new activity, organizing and promoting market screenings for […]
Winnipeg Aboriginal Students Begin NSI New Voices Film/TV Training
30 May 2006A group of 12 Aboriginal young people from Winnipeg have started their first week of intensive film and TV training as part of NSI New Voices. The three-month, full-time program run by National Screen Institute — Canada (NSI) offers students a culturally-sensitive, well-rounded understanding of the industry.
Peaking at 1.98 Million, CTV’s Eight Days to Live is Most-Watched Canadian Movie of the Year
30 May 2006The premiere of the CTV original movie Eight Days to Live has become the most-watched Canadian movie of the year, BBM confirmed today. Indeed with an average audience of 1.7 million viewers (2+), the two-hour movie starring Kelly Rowan has attracted more viewers that any other all-Canadian CTV original movie since the advent of electronic measurement. […]
Desperate Networks Author And New York Times Journalist Bill Carter To Provide Global Television Closing Address At Banff World Television Festival
30 May 2006Rounding out a stellar lineup of confirmed speakers, the Banff World Television Festival has announced that bestselling author and New York Times journalist Bill Carter will provide the Global Television Closing Address at this year’s Festival. Carter, author of The Late Shift and the recently released Desperate Networks, has reported on the television industry for […]
Cannes Film Festival: The Cinefondation’s Prizes
29 May 2006
In 1998, Gilles Jacob and Pierre Viot created the Cinéfondation to promote the discovery of the new generation of filmmakers. An official selection of school films is therefore presented during the Festival. This year, 17 films from Australia, Asia, Europe, North America and South America have been selected from the 1100 submitted.
Telediversite 2006
28 May 2006Yesterday, the second edition of the Télédiversité conference was held. The event, presented by Astral Media, TVA and TQS, is dedicated to the reflection and portrayal of cultural diversity in French-language private broadcasting, in Québec. Held in Studio F at TVA, the event was a huge success, attracting over 200 participants.
At the event, Astral Media, […]
2006 aluCine Toronto Latin@ Media Festival
27 May 2006The 7th aluCine Toronto Latin@ Media Festival will run from June 1st to June 10th at the Workman Theatre Project (1001 Queen Street West), the National Film Board of Canada (150 John Street) and the Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue).
The festival will offer 10 days of 227 border-breaking short films and videos from Latin […]
Thomson Launches Content Preparation and Distribution Services For Delivery of Digital Entertainment Content to Mobile Devices
26 May 2006Thomson has announced that its Services division launched services to capture significant share of the growing market demand for the delivery of digital entertainment content to mobile devices. As part of this effort, Thomson is now offering mobile content preparation and distribution capabilities at its Technicolor Content Services locations in Glendale, Calif., and Perivale, London […]
New Canadian Idol Track “Are You The One?” Hits Radio in Advance of Season Premiere on CTV
26 May 2006
Canadian Idol traditionally ends with a song released to radio. Now, it’s starting that way too. Just days before the season premiere of summer’s most-watched series, CTV released a brand new Canadian Idol track to radio stations today recorded by a Canadian Idol competitor discovered in Yellowknife. “Are You the One?” - a hip hop […]
It’s Love At First Bite In Pizza My Heart, An Original Movie Premiering On Family Channel
26 May 2006A modern-day version of Romeo and Juliet, Pizza My Heart transports the Shakespearean tale to Verona, New Jersey, and follows the story of two feuding families, the Prestolanis, and the Montebellos. Despite being neighbours, the families, who own rival pizzerias, have been fighting since the “old country” over whose pizza is better — and just […]
