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1999 Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 14th Gemini Awards were held on November 7, 1999, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Rick Mercer, took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television. Awards Best Dramatic Series * ''Da Vinci's Inquest'' - Haddock Entertainment, Barna-Alper Productions, Alliance Atlantis Productions, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Chris Haddock, Laszlo Barna * '' More Tales of the City'' - Working Title Films. Producers: Kevin Tierney, Suzanne Girard, Alan Poul, Tim Bevan * '' Foolish Heart'' - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Ken Finkleman, Brian Dennis * '' La Femme Nikita'' - Baton Broadcasting, Fireworks Entertainment. Producers: Jamie Paul Rock, Jay Firestone * '' Traders'' - Atlantis Films. Producers: Seaton McLean, Sandie Pereira, Peter Mitchell Best TV Movie or Miniseries * ''Milgaard'' - Barna-Alper Productions, Bar Harbour Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (originally and still colloquially Metro Convention Centre, and sometimes MTCC), is a convention complex located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada along Front Street (Toronto), Front Street West in the former Railway Lands in downtown Toronto. The property is today owned by Oxford Properties. The centre is operated by the Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre Corporation, an independent agency of the Government of Ontario. Description The MTCC has of space, and is home to the 1232-seat John Bassett Theatre. To the east end of the complex is the 586-room InterContinental Toronto Centre hotel (formerly Canadian National Railway's ''L'Hotel CN''). At the west end of the complex is a 265,000 square foot Class-B office building. Within the office building is the Pint restaurant, which was formerly a Baton Rouge (restaurant), Baton Rouge from 2006 to 2017 and a Planet Hollywood from 1996 to 2006. A south building containing exhibition space is located on Brem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Finkleman
Ken Finkleman (born 1946) is a Canadian television and film writer, producer, director, actor, and novelist. Biography Finkleman was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In Canada, Finkleman is best known as the writer, creator and producer of the CBC Television series '' The Newsroom'', in which he starred as television news producer George Findlay. He later produced a number of other series for Canadian television as well, including '' Married Life'', '' Foolish Heart'', '' Foreign Objects'', ''More Tears'', ''Good Dog'', and '' Good God''. Each of these series also included the linking character George Findlay (or the nearly identical character George Britton in the first series, ''Married Life''). Finkleman describes Findlay as his vehicle for exploring issues that both intrigue him and tick him off. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David M
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as " House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the '' Seder Olam Rabbah'', '' Seder Olam Zutta'', and '' Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; page 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lantos
Robert Lantos (born 3 April 1949) is a Hungarian-Canadian film producer. Life and career Lantos was born on 3 April 1949 in Budapest, the son of Ágnes (Bodor) and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He immigrated to Canada in 1963. Lantos is Jewish. Lantos studied literature at McGill University in Montreal and graduated with a BA (1970) and an MA (1972). Following graduation from McGill, he founded Vivafilm which imported and distributed foreign films across Canada. He later started a production company, RSL Entertainment, which produced fifteen films, most notably George Kaczender's '' In Praise of Older Women'' and Ted Kotcheff's '' Joshua Then and Now''. Lantos co-founded the Canadian film and television company Alliance Communications Corporation with partners Victory Loewy, John Kemeny, Stephen J. Roth, and Denis Héroux. He was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Company Pictures
Company Pictures is a British television production company which has produced drama programming for many broadcasters. It was set up in 1998 by Charles Pattinson and George S. J. Faber, George Faber, colleagues at BBC Films. Their first film was ''Morvern Callar (film), Morvern Callar'', which was credited as a co-production with BBC Films as they had begun developing it while still employed there. In 2003 Company Pictures became part of All3Media. In 2012, founders Pattinson and Faber left Company Pictures to set up another independent production company, and John Yorke (producer), John Yorke became managing director until 2015. He was succeeded by Michele Buck, former joint managing director of Mammoth Screen. For both artistic and fiscal reasons, when producing the TV series ''The White Queen (TV series), The White Queen'', Company Pictures entered into collaboration with a Flemish production house. This enabled them to film in the medieval cities of Ghent and Bruges, whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shot Through The Heart (film)
''Shot Through the Heart'' is a 1998 television film directed by David Attwood, shown on the BBC and HBO in 1998, which covers the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The film is based on a true story and an article called ''Anti-Sniper'' by John Falk (published in the November 1995 issue of '' Details'' magazine). It won a Peabody Award in 1998. Plot The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends and expert sharpshooters Vlado Selimović (Linus Roache) and Slavko Stanic (Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo. Slavko, an ethnic Serb and unemployed bachelor, becomes a sniper and instructor training the Army of Republika Srpska snipers who used to terrorize the city. Vlado, a Muslim married father and successful owner of a furniture factory, rejects his friend's offer to gain an escape from the city. Instead, he becomes a marksman in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and attempts to counter the sni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trudy Grant
Trudy Grant, President of Sullivan Entertainment International and COO of the Sullivan Entertainment Group, has been part of the establishment of the Canadian entertainment industry for nearly thirty years. Grant, who is married to Kevin Sullivan, has won numerous awards for her work in television and film. Grant has been instrumental in making Sullivan Entertainment International a major exporter of Canadian and international media content around the world, with an inventory of movies and programming from all genres, including miniseries, feature films, family and children's drama, and documentaries. Filmography Executive Producer *'' Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning'' (2008) *''Magic Flute Diaries'' (2008) *''Anne: Journey to Green Gables'' (animated film, 2005) *'' The Piano Man’s Daughter'' (film, 2003) *''A Wind at My Back Christmas'' (film, 2001) *''P.R. Operation Overload'' (film, 2001) *'' P.R.'' (television series, 2001) *'' Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Avonlea Christmas
''An Avonlea Christmas'' (also known as ''Happy Christmas, Miss King'') is a 1998 Canadian made-for-television Christmas film directed by Stefan Scaini and written by Raymond Storey. A reunion special to the 1990–1996 television series ''Road to Avonlea'', the story takes place against the backdrop of World War I as the King family prepares for Christmas Eve. Cast * Jackie Burroughs as Hetty King * Cedric Smith as Alec King * Mag Ruffman as Olivia Dale * Lally Cadeau as Janet King * Patricia Hamilton as Rachel Lynde * Gema Zamprogna as Felicity Pike * Zachary Bennett as Felix King * Kay Tremblay as Great Aunt Eliza * Molly Atkinson as Cecilly King * Ryan Cooley as Daniel King * Lauren Collins as Libby Hubble * Asa Perlman as Monty Dale See also * List of Christmas films *''Road to Avonlea ''Road to Avonlea'' is a Canadian television series first broadcast in Canada between January 7, 1990, and March 31, 1996, as part of the '' CBC Family Hour'' anthology series, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sue Rodriguez Story
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milgaard
''Milgaard'', also sometimes known as ''Hard Time: The David Milgaard Story'', is a Canadian dramatic television film, which was broadcast by the CTV Television Network in 1999. The film centres on David Milgaard, a Canadian man who was wrongfully convicted in the 1969 rape and murder of Gail Miller, and his 22-year quest for justice until being released from prison in 1992. The film stars Ian Tracey as David Milgaard and Gabrielle Rose as his mother Joyce Milgaard, as well as Tom Melissis, Garwin Sanford, Hrothgar Mathews, Jaimz Woolvett, Sabrina Grdevich, Bernie Coulson and Reagan Pasternak in supporting roles. Larry Fisher, who had been arrested for Miller's murder and was awaiting trial in Saskatchewan at the time of the film's release, sought a court injunction banning the broadcast of the film on the grounds that it might prejudice his chance at a fair trial. Although the injunction was granted, the judge declined to ban the film nationwide, instead ruling only that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaton McLean
Seaton McLean is a Canadian film and television producer A television producer is a person who oversees one or more aspects of a television show, television program. Some producers take more of an executive role, in that they conceive new programs and pitch them to the television networks, but upon acce .... He co-founded Atlantis Films. He oversaw all production activity for the Atlantis Films Limited, producing television series like ''White Fang'', ''Traders'', '' Earth: Final Conflict'', ''Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House'', '' The Ray Bradbury Theater'', ''PSI Factor'' and ''The Eleventh Hour''. He is married to actress Sonja Smits, with whom he has two children. References External links * Canadian film producers Canadian television producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Queen's University at Kingston alumni Place of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traders (TV Series)
''Traders'' is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1996 to 2000 and CBC Television from 1997 to 1998. The series centred on the employees of Gardner Ross, an investment bank in the Bay Street financial district of Toronto, Ontario. Series overview Although Global had locked up most of NBC's "Must See TV, Must See Thursday" situation comedies for their Thursday night broadcasts, they lost the rights to broadcast the medical drama ''ER (TV series), ER'' to rival CTV Television Network, CTV. ''Traders'' was broadcast against ''ER'' in the 10 p.m. Thursday time slot. Many critics at the time believed the show would die an early death against the time slot competition, as ''ER'' had even beaten the other American networks in the time slot in a convincing manner. However, despite the stiff competition, ''Traders'' received good ratings, in part thanks to its lead-ins. Bruce Gray and Sonja Smits starred as the firm's senior partne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
