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Jason Lapeyre
Jason Lapeyre is a Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his 2012 film '' I Declare War'', which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Audience Award at Fantastic Fest. ''I Declare War'' was released theatrically in the US by Drafthouse Films. Early life and career Lapeyre grew up as an army brat on Canadian military bases all over the world. He attended film school at Queen's University. Lapeyre's debut feature, '' Cold Blooded'', premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival and won the award for Best Canadian Feature. Lead performer Zoie Palmer won Best Actress for the film at the Bare Bones Film Festival. He also produced the 2016 feature film ''The Lockpicker'', which won the John Dunning Discovery Award for Best First Feature Film at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. In 2019, Lapeyre directed the streaming series ''Warigami'' for CW Seed and CBC Gem. It premiered at Canneseries, where it was nominate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The city of Victoria is the 7th most densely populated city in Canada with . Victoria is the southernmost major city in Western Canada and is about southwest from British Columbia's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about from Seattle by airplane, seaplane, ferry, or the Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry, and from Port Angeles, Washington, by ferry across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Named for Queen Victoria, the city is one of the oldest in the Pacific Northwest, with British settlement beginning in 1843. The city has retained a large number of its historic buildings, in particular its two most famous landmarks, the Parliament Buildings (finished in 1897 and home of the Legislative Assembly of British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Anarchy
Screen Anarchy, previously known as Twitch Film or Twitch, is a Canadian English-language website featuring news and reviews of mainly international, independent and cult films. The website was founded in 2004 by Todd Brown. In addition to films, the website covers various film festivals from Sundance, Toronto and Fantasia to Sitges, Cannes and the Berlinale. They partnered with Instinctive Film in 2011 to found Interactor, a crowd funding and viral marketing site, and with Indiegogo in 2013. Brown is a partner at XYZ Films, and '' Variety'' credits Twitch Film as helping to popularize the production company's films. Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting wrote that Twitch "...quickly established itself as the online world’s leading source for international, independent, cult, arthouse and genre film news, review and discussion." He also wrote: "Over the years I have become increasingly impressed by what Todd Brown has done with Twitch Film, he has cornered the market for all edgy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Blooded (film)
''Cold Blooded'' is a 2012 Canadian crime film written and directed by Jason Lapeyre. The film stars Ryan Robbins, Zoie Palmer, William MacDonald, Sergio Di Zio and Huse Madhavji. The film tells the story of a female police officer assigned to guard a diamond thief overnight in a hospital when his violent partners break into the hospital to get him. The film premiered at the 2012 Kingston Canadian Film Festival. Plot A diamond heist goes very wrong, leaving one of the team of criminals dead and another arrested for his murder. The surviving thief, Eddie Cordero, wakes up in a hospital being guarded by Constable Frances Jane. He tries to con her into letting him go, but she's too smart for him and won't fall for his various pleas. Later in the evening, Cordero's partners in the diamond heist break into the hospital and head for his room. In the ensuing chaos, Constable Jane ends up having to work with Cordero to survive the night while at the same time trying to keep him fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canneseries
The Cannes International Series Festival (french: Festival International des Séries de Cannes), usually called the Canneseries, is an international television festival held annually in Cannes, France. The festival aims to showcase and promote television series from around the world. The festival is usually held parallel to MIPTV Media Market. History In 2014, the Mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard supported the idea of an international television festival held in the city. In 2017, former French Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin was appointed as the festival president and Benoît Louvet as the general manager. In June 2017, the first edition of Canneseries was announced to be held in April 2018. Edition Festival programme As of 2023, the festival is composed of four different sections: *Competition *Short Form Competition *Documentary Series Competition *Out of Competition Awards As of 2022, the categories presented at the festival were: *Best Series *Grand Prize *Best S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syfy Wire
Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. Launched on September 24, 1992, the channel broadcasts programming relating to the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres. As of January 2016, Syfy is available to 92.4 million households in America. History In 1989, in Boca Raton, Florida, communications attorneys and cable TV entrepreneurs Mitchell Rubenstein and his wife and business partner Laurie Silvers devised the concept for the Sci-Fi Channel, and signed up 8 of the top 10 cable TV operators as well as licensing exclusive rights to the British TV series '' Doctor Who'' (which shifted over from PBS to Sci-Fi Channel), ''Dark Shadows'', and the cult series ''The Prisoner''. In 1992, the channel was sold by Rubenstein and Silvers to USA Networks, then a joint venture between Para ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Gem
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. With main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers. CBC Television can also be live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free. Overview CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment and childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CW Seed
CW may stand for: Science and technology * centiwatt (cW), one hundredth of a watt * Cω, a programming language * CW complex, a type of topological space * Carrier wave, in radio communications * CodeWarrior, an integrated development environment by Metrowerks * Constructed wetland, a man-made wetland to treat wastewater * Continuous wave, a method of radio transmission (telegraphy) and a microwave theory * ClarisWorks, an office suite now known as AppleWorks * Drag coefficient, a measure of air resistance commonly denoted \mathbf c_\mathrm w\, * Contention Window, a network traffic technique * chemical formula of tungsten carbide Arts and media Gaming * '' Castle Wolfenstein'', a 1981 video game * '' Cube World'', a video game Publications * ''Computerworld'', an information technology magazine * ''The Crimson White'', a student-run newspaper of the University of Alabama Other media * The CW, an American television network/programming service **The CW Plus, a national fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Canadian Screen Awards
The 5th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 12, 2017, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2016. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2017. Awards in many of the technical categories were presented in a series of galas, collectively called Canadian Screen Week, in the days leading up to the main ceremony. At the main ceremony, the film ''It's Only the End of the World'' and the television series '' Orphan Black'' won the most awards in film and television categories, with six and nine awards, respectively. Broadcast The ceremony was hosted by Howie Mandel."Lurching from boring to weird, Canadian Screen Awards did produce not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dunning Discovery Award
The John Dunning Best First Feature Award is a special Canadian film award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the year's best feature film by a first-time film director. Under the earlier names Claude Jutra Award and Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature, the award has been presented since the 14th Genie Awards in 1993.Claude Jutra Award . Formerly a juried prize whose winner was announced in advance of the ceremony, the award is now presented as a conventional category ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now (newspaper)
''Now'' (styled as ''NOW''), also known as ''NOW Magazine'' is an online publication based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Throughout most of its existence, ''Now'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper. Physical publication of ''Now'' was suspended in August 2022, and there are no current plans to resume printed publication. Publication history ''Now'' was first published on September 10, 1981, by Michael Hollett and Alice Klein."Publisher of Toronto's iconic NOW Magazine files for bankruptcy." ''blogTO'', April 1, 2022. ''NOW'' is an alternative weekly that covers news, culture, arts, and entertainment. In its printed incarnation, ''NOW'' was published 52 times a year and could be picked up in Toronto subway stations, cafes, variety ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lockpicker
''The Lockpicker'' is a 2016 Canadian drama film, directed by Randall Okita. The film stars Keigian Umi Tang as Hashi, a troubled teen/petty criminal trying to escape a cycle of violence. The film won the John Dunning Discovery Award at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. '' Playback
Playback or Play Back may refer to:
Film
* ''Playback'' (1962 film), a British film in the ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' series
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Muskogee Phoenix
The ''Muskogee Phoenix'' is a daily newspaper published in Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States, covering several counties of northeastern Oklahoma. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. The paper is printed five days a week (Tuesday-Saturday), while digital access is available 7 days a week. The Phoenix was founded in February 1888, when Oklahoma was still a territory. accessed February 18, 2007. From 1980 through 1986, Marjorie Paxson
Marjorie Paxson (August 13, 1923 – June 17, 2017) was an American newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher during an era in American history when ...
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