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EXCLUSIVE: Streaming platform MUBI has acquired multi-territory rights to Xavier Dolan’s Cannes 2019 drama Matthias & Maxime.
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Lest We Be Devoured, an in-development project from PG: Pyscho Gorman producer Peter Kuplowsky, is one of 10 projects taking part in July’s virtual program.
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My Salinger Year, a literary drama starring Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver that opened the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, has been picked up by IFC Films for the U.S. market.
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Reel Suspects has acquired international sales rights to Anthony Scott Burns’s sci-fi thriller “Come True,” an elevated genre film which has been expected to world premiere at a fall festival this year. XYZ is handling U.S. rights on the film, while Raven Banner holds distribution rights in Canada.
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Gravitas Ventures has taken U.S. rights to 2019 Toronto premiere Sweetness In The Belly, which stars Dakota Fanning in the story of an English child abandoned in Africa.
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The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the film festival calendar. Cannes had to give up on its June-July dates last week and a plethora of smaller events have cancelled this spring and summer. Here’s an update on the status of five of the biggest remaining festivals on the schedule. It’s fair to say there remains uncertainty around each of them.
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EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has picked up the North American rights to Tammy’s Always Dying, the dark comedy directed by Amy Jo Johnson (best remembered as the original pink ranger on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as well as Julie Emrick on WB’s Felicity).
deadline.com
The Antiviral filmmaker’s second feature film will be released by the American distributor, while Well Go USA handles the sci-fi thriller’s home entertainment release.
playbackonline.ca
Screen’s chief film critic Fionnuala Halligan, Americas editor Jeremy Kay and senior correspondent for Europe and the Middle East Melanie Goodfellow debate how the circuit could look post-crisis.
screendaily.com
The 11th edition of the Kidscreen Summit took place in Miami from February 10 to 13, 2020, and it was the place to be for the kids television and digital media industry! With more than 2150 people from 62 countries registered to take part, including more than 430 Canadians, Canada was well represented with more than 230 companies and partners. In addition to nearly 500 meetings at…
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Canadian talent made major waves at the 26th edition of Slamdance Film Festival, which went down in Park City, Utah from January 24 to 30, 2020. Canada took home five awards, from both jury and audience (including two honorable mentions.) Slamdance takes place alongside Sundance — same time, same city — and is known for new talent and edgier programming, which…
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Even bigger and better than last year, Canada House, powered by Telefilm Canada, at SXSW 2020 showcases Canada’s film, tech, and music sectors in one awesome initiative that’s sure to turn heads in Austin, Texas this year! Yes indeed, Canada’s innovation and creativity will be on display for five days and five nights at Canada…
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As we count down to Canada House, powered by Telefilm Canada, at South by Southwest 2020 (March 15 to 19), we’re excited to take you behind the scenes with its designers, the team at Design par Judith Portier, to learn all about designing this complex, welcoming, and eco-friendly space! We asked Judith Portier, Isabelle Raymond,…
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As the 2020 European Film Market (EFM) kicks off, Screen highlights the buzz titles from Spain, Nordics, Russia, Canada and Benelux ready to entice international buyers.
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As the 2020 European Film Market (EFM) kicks off, Screen highlights the buzz titles from North America ready to entice international buyers.
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In a sponsored episode of the Screen podcast, the three heads of Canada’s leading screen-based organisations – Telefilm Canada, Canada Media Fund and CBC/Radio-Canada – share their insights into the state of the industry in Canada, how strategic partnerships are helping their companies to thrive, and look at what’s next for Canada’s audiovisual creators in…
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Philippe Falardeau was still processing the scale of what he was living, Thursday afternoon. The Quebec director’s latest film My Salinger Year was about to officially launch the 70th Berlinale — a.k.a. the Berlin International Film Festival — on Thursday evening. And a lot of fuss was being made.
Montreal Gazette
By exploring global partnerships and supporting local marginalised content creators, Canada is stepping ahead of an industry in flux. To find out more browse the digital edition of Screen’s 2020 Telefilm Canada supplement.
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Philippe Falardeau was stunned to learn his latest feature, My Salinger Year, had been chosen to open the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival: “I’m just starting to grasp what it means.”
Montreal Gazette
From docs on death, politics and truffle hunters to a gleefully existential romcom — the cream of this year’s Sundance Film Festival crop
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The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open has won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, an honour that comes with a $100,000 prize. Let’s spotlight this drama co-directed and co-written by Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. Looking back on the film’s journey, after premiering at the 2019 Berlinale, it’s earned the Grand Prix Focus Quebec/Canada at…
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Canadian cultural programming will take centre stage in Germany all year long, including the exciting selection films at the Berlinale (coming up from February 20 to March 1, 2020). Canada has been named the Guest of Honour for the prestigious Frankfurt Book Fair (October 14 to 18), in an exciting collaboration between the Canada Council for the Arts, Canada FBM2020 and Global Affairs! Discover Canada’s presence at the Berlinale and…
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Get ready, New York. Canada Now coming your way from February 13 to 16, 2020, at Manhattan’s IFC Center. Prepare to be dazzled, impressed, and inspired by this year’s diverse selection of eight independent Canadian films, ranging from emerging talent to cinematic icons, comedy to drama, documentary to Indigenous content and new works by female…
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At the 31st Palm Springs International Film Festival, (which took place in January), Canada shone bright in 14 films — including Canadian music docs, acclaimed coproductions, Canada’s Oscar choice, an award winner and an honourable mention! Our eighth annual Talent Fund fundraiser added to our presence Palm Springs. After a premiere screening of Sanja Zivkovic’s Easy Land (also screening at the fest) guests celebrated emerging Canadian…
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