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Remembrance (2001 Film)
''Remembrance'' is a 2001 Canadian short film, directed by Stephanie Morgenstern. It was nominated for a Genie Award for Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama, Best Live Action Short Film at the 23rd Genie Awards, and won the Jutra Award for Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film, Best Short Film at the 4th Jutra Awards. The film set the basis for the TV series X Company Morgenstern and Ellis later created in 2015. Plot ''Remembrance'' is an unusual wartime romance, inspired by two true but little-known stories: a man with an extremely rare memory condition, synesthesia, which literally prevented him from forgetting; and Camp X – a top secret training facility near Whitby, Ontario, that was used to train Canadian and Allied spies during World War Two. Against this backdrop, two strangers meet and, each for their own reasons, must struggle against an unexpected and dangerous attraction. Cast * Mark Ellis (actor), Mark Ellis as Alfred * Stephanie Morgenste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Morgenstern
Stephanie Morgenstern (born December 10, 1965) is a Canadian actress, filmmaker, and screenwriter for television and film. She has worked extensively on stage, film, and television in both English and French. Her most widely seen feature film credits have been '' The Sweet Hereafter, Maelström, Julie and Me (Revoir Julie)'' and ''Forbidden Love''. Morgenstern is also widely recognized by anime fans as the voice of Sailor Venus in the DIC Entertainment English dub of ''Sailor Moon'' in the first few seasons as well as the movies. Additionally, she provided the voice of Regina in the '' Dino Crisis'' series, and Yin in ''Yin Yang Yo!''. Life and career Along with her writing partner and husband Mark Ellis, Morgenstern created '' Flashpoint'', a Canadian TV police drama which premiered July 2008 on CTV and CBS, and ran for five years before the show ended by creative choice in 2012. The show was awarded the Academy Board of Directors Tribute for Outstanding and Enduring Cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playback (magazine)
''Playback'' is an online Canadian film, broadcasting, and interactive media trade journal owned by Brunico Communications. It was previously published biweekly as a print magazine for the Canadian entertainment industry. History The first issue of ''Playback'' magazine was published, in tabloid format, on 29 September 1986. The magazine has since begun to report on advancements in the online digital media industry as well, specifically web series and related events, media, and culture. The magazine also reports on funding resources for filmmakers, technical advancements in the industry, and trends. It is widely considered to be a "must read" amongst industry professionals. In May 2010, ''Playback'' magazine stopped publishing its biweekly print edition and became an exclusively online magazine An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Canadian Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Films
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first installments of the ''Harry Potter (film series), Harry Potter'', ''Fast & Furious'', ''Spy Kids'', ''Monsters, Inc. (franchise), Monsters, Inc.'' and ''Shrek (franchise), Shrek'' franchises, and ''The Lord of the Rings (film series), The Lord of the Rings'' and ''Ocean's'' trilogies. Significant non-English language films released included ''Monsoon Wedding'', ''Amélie'' and ''Spirited Away''. There was one film, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', that passed over $1 billion in a re-release of 2020. The inaugural entries of the ''Harry Potter'' and ''Lord of the Rings'' film franchises prompted a shift in both the film and literary communities by propelling fantasy into mainstream culture, popularising Young adult fiction, young adult novels, and reforming the Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbuster to promote film franchises and cater to fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Drama Short Films
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitby, Ontario
Whitby is a town in Regional Municipality of Durham, Durham Region in Ontario, Canada. Whitby is located in Southern Ontario east of Ajax, Ontario, Ajax and west of Oshawa, on the north shore of Lake Ontario and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region. It had a population of 138,501 at the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 census. It is approximately east of Toronto, and it is known as a commuter suburb in the Durham Region, a part of the Greater Toronto Area. While the southern portion of Whitby is predominantly urban and an economic hub, the northern part of the municipality is more rural and includes the communities of Ashburn, Ontario, Ashburn, Brooklin, Ontario, Brooklin, Myrtle, Ontario, Myrtle, Myrtle Station, Ontario, Myrtle Station, and Macedonian Village, Ontario, Macedonian Village. History Whitby Township, Ontario, Whitby Township (now the Town of Whitby) was named after the seaport town of Whitby, Whitby, Yorkshire, England. When the township was originally survey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camp X
Camp X was the unofficial name of the secret Special Training School No. 103, a Second World War British paramilitary installation for training covert agents in the methods required for success in clandestine operations. It was located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada. The area is known today as Intrepid Park, after the code name for Sir William Stephenson, Director of British Security Co-ordination (BSC), who established the program to create the training facility. The facility was jointly operated by the Canadian military, with help from Foreign Affairs and the RCMP but commanded by the BSC; it also had close ties with MI6. In addition to the training program, the Camp had a communications tower that could send and transmit radio and telegraph communications, called Hydra. Established December 6, 1941, the training facility closed before the end of 1944; the buildings were removed in 1969 and a monument was erected at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synesthesia
Synesthesia (American English) or synaesthesia (British English) is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People with synesthesia may experience colors when listening to music, see shapes when smelling certain scents, or perceive tastes when looking at words. People who report a lifelong history of such experiences are known as synesthetes. Awareness of synesthetic perceptions varies from person to person with the perception of synesthesia differing based on an individual's unique life experiences and the specific type of synesthesia that they have. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme–color synesthesia or color–graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colour, colored. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (''e.g.,'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huffington Post
''HuffPost'' (''The Huffington Post'' until 2017, itself often abbreviated as ''HPo'') is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy eating, young women's interests, and local news featuring columnists. It was created to provide a progressive alternative to conservative news websites such as the Drudge Report. The site contains its own content and user-generated content via video blogging, audio, and photo. In 2012, the website became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize. Founded by Arianna Huffington, Andrew Breitbart, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, the site was launched on May 9, 2005, as a counterpart to the Drudge Report. In March 2011, it was acquired by AOL for US$315 million, with Arian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X Company
''X Company'' is a Canadian/Hungarian spy thriller television series created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern, the creators of the CTV series '' Flashpoint'', which ran from 2008 to 2012. The series premiered on February 18, 2015, on CBC Television. The series takes place during World War II, and follows five recruits as they are trained as agents at a secret Canadian training facility, Camp X near Lake Ontario east of Toronto and then sent out into the field in Europe. The final episode of the series aired on CBC on March 15, 2017. X Company was produced by Temple Street and Pioneer Stillking Kft. Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern wrote some episodes and were also executive producers with Ivan Schneeberg, David Fortier, Kerry Appleyard (Temple Street) and Bill Haber (Ostar Productions). Directors included Grant Harvey, Amanda Tapping, Paolo Barzman, Julian Gilbey and Stephanie Morgenstern. On March 4, 2015, CBC renewed the series for a second season with ten episod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Jutra Awards
The 4th Jutra Awards were held on February 17, 2002, to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2001.Agnes Poirier"Quebec Jutra awards finalists announced" ''Screen Daily'', January 24, 2002. ''Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)'' was the night's big winner, receiving nine nominations and winning seven awards, including Best Film and Best Supporting Actor for Emmanuel Bilodeau, with André Turpin taking home and Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. '' February 15, 1839 (15 février 1839)'' also received nine nominations and won four awards, becoming the third film to receive two acting awards, and the first to win both Best Actor, for Luc Picard, and Best Supporting Actress, for Sylvie Drapeau. Picard went on to beat Rémy Girard, Patrick Huard and Marc Messier, who were all nominated for '' Les Boys III'', and was also the first actor to be nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor during the same ceremo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
