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Andrew Rai Berzins
Andrew Rai Berzins is a Canadian film and television writer. He is most noted as cowriter with Andrew Wreggitt of the television film ''Borealis'', for which they won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014. Berzins published a short story collection, ''Cerberus'', with Goose Lane Editions in 1994. The following year Holly Dale directed Berzins's first screenplay, ''Blood and Donuts'', for which Berzins received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996."Over-the-edge Canadian films poised for Genie nod". Canadian Press, November 24, 1996. In the same era, he was a writer for the television series ''Straight Up''. He received three Gemini Award nominations for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series in the 2000s at the 16th Gemini Awards in 2001 for '' Scorn'', at the 18th Gemini Awards in 2003 for ''Chasing Cain II: Face'', and at the 19th Gemini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Wreggitt
Andrew Wreggitt (born 1955) is a Canadian television writer and producer from Calgary, Alberta.Ken McGoogan, "Wreggitt keeps poetic fire burning". ''Calgary Herald'', February 21, 1998. He began his career as a writer for the television series ''The Beachcombers'' in the 1980s. In this era he was also a writer of poetry, as well as the stage play ''The Wild Guys'' in collaboration with his wife Rebecca Shaw. He later became a writer for ''North of 60'' in the 1990s, being promoted to executive story editor by 1996. Following the end of the regular series in 1997, he wrote a number of standalone television films as part of the franchise. He was subsequently a writer for the drama series ''Black Harbour'', and for several of the Joanne Kilbourn series of mystery television films. In 2002–03, he created and wrote for the detective drama '' Tom Stone''.Bonnie Malleck, "CBC premires Calgary comedy-drama". ''Hamilton Spectator'', February 25, 2002. He subsequently also wrote for the te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver Sun
The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. Published six days a week from Monday to Saturday, the ''Sun'' is the largest newspaper in western Canada by circulation. The newspaper was first published on 12 February 1912. The newspaper expanded in the early 20th century by acquiring other papers, such as the ''Daily News-Advertiser'' and '' The Evening World''. In 1963, the Cromie family sold the majority of its holdings in the ''Sun'' to FP Publications, who later sold the newspaper to Southam Inc. in 1980. The newspaper was taken over by Hollinger Inc. in 1992, and was later sold again to CanWest in 2000. In 2010, the newspaper became part of the Postmedia Network as a result of the collapse of CanWest. History The ''Vancouver Sun'' published its first edition on 12 February 1912. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passage (2008 Film)
''Passage'' is a 2008 documentary film partly based on the book '' Fatal Passage'' about Sir John Franklin's lost expedition through the Northwest Passage. The film explores the fate of the doomed mission, including John Rae's efforts to uncover the truth, and Lady Franklin's campaign to defend her late husband's reputation. The film also features Inuit statesman Tagak Curley, who challenges claims made by Lady Franklin supported by her powerful friend, the story teller and "famous author Charles Dickens", widely reported at the time, that Aboriginal people were responsible for the signs of cannibalism among the remains of the doomed crew. It premiered at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto, Canada in April 2008. ''Passage'' has two main storylines. The first shows John Walker and crew making an historical fiction film ''Fatal Passage'' with a screenplay by Andrew Rai Berzins. This includes script readings, discussions, and scenes from that film (which was not completed). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Stone (TV Series)
''Tom Stone'' is a crime drama series that ran in Canada on CBC Television for two 13-episode seasons beginning on March 25, 2002. In the United States, the series is syndicated by PPI Releasing and Sony Pictures Television under the title ''Stone Undercover''. Overview The hour-long series, which is set on location in Calgary and surrounding Alberta locations, stars Chris William Martin in the title role, a roguish character with a colorful past: He was a cop, an oil rigger and an ex-con."No, Jim Rockford hasn't moved to a trailer in Alberta's foothills". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', February 25, 2002. His background provides the perfect ingredients the Royal Canadian Mounted Police need to help them in solving cases that require an outsider. Assisting him in these assignments is RCMP Corporal Marina Di Luzio ( Janet Kidder), a female by-the-book type commercial crime specialist who has an on again-off again friction with the unconventional Stone, which also carries over into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Of 60
''North of 60'' is a 1990s Canadian television drama depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest (north of 60° north latitude, hence the title). It first aired on CBC Television in 1992 and was syndicated around the world. It is set in the fictional community of Lynx River, a Canadian Indigenous community depicted as being in the Dehcho Region, Northwest Territories. Most of the characters were Dene. Some non-native characters had important roles: the restaurant/motel owner (a Ukrainian immigrant), the band manager, the nurse (a white Canadian woman) and (during the show's first season) the town's RCMP Detachment Commander. The show explored themes of Native poverty, alcoholism, cultural preservation, conflict over land settlements, and natural resource exploitation. Originally somewhat light-hearted (a CBC response to the very successful '' Northern Exposure'' on CBS), it quickly became a more sombre dramatic series which explored subplots including murder, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beowulf & Grendel
''Beowulf & Grendel'' is a 2005 Canadian- Icelandic fantasy adventure film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem ''Beowulf''. It stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Grendel and Sarah Polley as the witch Selma. The screenplay was written by Andrew Rai Berzins. The soundtrack was composed by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson. The film was a cooperative effort among Eurasia Motion Pictures (Canada), Spice Factory (UK), and Bjolfskvida (Iceland), and it was filmed in Iceland. In 2006, a documentary of the difficult making of ''Beowulf and Grendel'', called ''Wrath of Gods'', was released and went on to win six film awards in Europe and the U.S. Setting While some of the film remains true to the original poem, other plot elements deviate from the original poem: four new characters (Grendel's father, the witch Selma, Father Brendan, and Grendel's son) are introduced, and several related plot poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Squad
''Cold Squad'' is a Canadian police procedural television series that premiered on CTV on January 23, 1998, at 10 p.m., and ran for seven seasons. Led by Sergeant Ali McCormick ( Julie Stewart), a team of homicide detectives from the Vancouver Police Department reopen long-unsolved, or " cold" cases (the titular "Cold Squad"), using present-day forensic technology and psychological profiling to help crack them. ''Cold Squad'' premiered simultaneously in French Canada on Séries+ as ''Brigade spéciale''. The series was created by Matt MacLeod, Philip Keatley and Julia Keatley, and produced by Keatley MacLeod Productions and Alliance Atlantis in association with CTV Television Network, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund (Canada Media Fund). ''Cold Squad'' is the first prime time national series produced out of Vancouver. With seven seasons and 98 episodes it became the longest-running prime time drama series on Canadian television. The cast of ''Cold Squ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph-Journal
The ''Telegraph-Journal'' is a daily newspaper published in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It serves as both a provincial daily and as a local newspaper for Saint John. The newspaper is published by Brunswick News. The ''Telegraph-Journal'' is the only New Brunswick-based newspaper to be distributed province-wide and has the highest readership in the province at a weekly circulation of 233,549 and a daily readership of about 100,000. Brunswick News also publishes a series of editions of regional news, including editions in Fredericton and Moncton under the titles ''Daily Gleaner'' and ''Times & Transcript'', respectively. Corporate management is based in Saint John. History The paper has been published out of Saint John since 1862. Capitalist Kenneth Colin (K.C.) Irving, without formal announcement bought New Brunswick Publishing and the ''Telegraph-Journal'', as well as a local Saint John radio station CHSJ in 1944. Eventually word got out that Irving had bought the paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGC Screenwriting Award
The WGC Screenwriting Awards (previously Canadian Screenwriting Awards) are administered by the Writers Guild of Canada, and are awarded to the best script for a feature film, television or radio project produced within the Guild's jurisdiction, written by a guild member in good standing, and broadcast or released in North America or screened at a Canadian film festival for the first time in the previous year. In addition to the film, television and radio categories, special awards presented by the WGC include the Sondra Kelly Award for projects written by women, the Denis McGrath Service Award for distinguished contributions to the organization, and the Jim Burt Screenwriting Prize for the best unproduced new screenplay. Awards 2006 *Children & Preschool — Mary Crawford and Alan Templeton, ''King'': "Stolen Voices" [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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