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Michael McNamara (filmmaker)
Michael McNamara (born December 6, 1953) is a Canadian film and television director and producer from Windsor, Ontario, who was cofounder with Judy Holm of the Markham Street Films studio. The son of poet Eugene McNamara,Owen Jones, "Playbill". ''Windsor Star'', January 29, 1994. McNamara directed episodes of children's television series such as ''The Elephant Show'', ''Eric's World'' and ''Polka Dot Shorts'', as well as music videos and television specials for Holly Cole Trio, Jane Siberry and Prairie Oyster, in his early career, before releasing his debut feature film '' The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati'', an adaptation of theatrical plays by Alan Williams, in 1996. In 1998 he directed ''In Thru the Out Door'', a television special billed as "network television's first-ever all-queer, all-star sketch comedy show". With his wife, Judy Holm, he launched Markham Street Films in the early 2000s. With that firm, he has directed documentary films rather than narrative features, alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Press
The Canadian Press (CP; , ) is a Canadian national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Established in 1917 as a vehicle for Canadian newspapers to exchange news and information, The Canadian Press has been a private, not-for-profit cooperative owned and operated by its member newspapers for most of its history. In mid-2010, however, it announced plans to become a for-profit business owned by three media companies once certain conditions were met. Over the years, The Canadian Press and its affiliates have adapted to reflect changes in the media industry, including technological changes and the growing demand for rapid news updates. It currently offers a wide variety of text, audio, photographic, video, and graphic content to websites, radio, television, and commercial clients in addition to newspapers and its longstanding ally, the Associated Press (AP), a global news service based in the United States. History Initially, Canada had only regional news associations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 9th Gemini Awards were held on March 6, 1994, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Albert Schultz and Valerie Pringle, took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television. Awards Best Dramatic Series * ''E.N.G.'' – Atlantis Communications. Producers: Jennifer Black, Greg Copeland, Robert Lantos * '' Beyond Reality'' – Paragon Entertainment. Producers: Jon Slan, Richard Borchiver, Janet Cuddy * ''Forever Knight'' – Paragon Entertainment. Producers: Jon Slan, James D. Parriott, Richard Borchiver, Lionel E. Siegel, Nicholas Gray * ''North of 60'' – (Seven24 Films). Producers: Tom Cox, Doug MacLeod, Robert Lantos, Barbara Samuels, Wayne Grigsby *'' Street Legal'' – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Nicholas Rose, Duncan Lamb, Brenda Greenberg Best Short Dramatic Program * ''Letter from Francis'' – Atlantis Films, Cabiria Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Gemini Awards
The 3rd Gemini Awards were held in 1988 to honour achievements in Television in Canada, Canadian television. The ceremonies were sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on 29 and 30 November. It was broadcast on CBC Television, CBC. Awards Programs Actors Journalism and sports Directing Writing Craft awards Special awards * Earle Grey Award: Kate Reid * Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Diversity Award, Multiculturalism Award: ''Degrassi Junior High'' * TV Guide Most Popular Program Award: ''Night Heat'' * John Drainie Award: Davidson Dunton * Margaret Collier Award: M. Charles Cohen References {{Gemini Awards Gemini Awards, 03 1988 in Canadian television, Gemini Awards, 1988 1988 television awards, Gemini Awards, 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemini Awards
The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's English-language television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States and the BAFTA Television Awards in the United Kingdom. First held in 1986 to replace the ACTRA Award, the ceremony celebrated Canadian television productions with awards in 87 categories, along with other special awards such as lifetime achievement awards. The Academy had previously presented the one-off Bijou Awards in 1981, inclusive of some television productions. The awards' name was an allusion to Castor and Pollux, a mythological pair of twins; this was in reference to Canada's linguistic duality of English and French, with the Academy's separate awards presentation for French-language television production named the Gémeaux Awards. The statuette, designed by Toronto artist Scott Thornley, evoked twins through a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big News From Grand Rock
''Big News from Grand Rock'' is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Daniel Perlmutter and released in 2014.Bruce DeMara"Ennis Esmer adored small town life of Big News from Grand Rock" ''Toronto Star'', February 27, 2015. The film stars Ennis Esmer as Leonard Crane, a journalist for the community newspaper in the small town of Grand Rock. Faced with declining readership and the threat of the paper being sold off by owner Stan (Gordon Pinsent), he tries to save the paper's fortunes by writing fabricated news stories inspired by old movies suggested to him by the owner of the local video rental store (Aaron Ashmore), which works until Lucy ( Meredith MacNeill), a journalist from the big city, arrives to investigate after he turns the 1996 thriller ''Extreme Measures'' into a story about secret medical experiments being conducted in Grand Rock.Chris Knight"Big News from Grand Rock, reviewed: Tripped from the headlines" ''National Post'', February 26, 2015. The cast also includes Kri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Day (film)
''Victoria Day'' is a 2009 Canadian independent film directed by David Bezmozgis and produced by Markham Street Films. The film stars Mark Rendall in the lead role, as well as Holly Deveaux, Sergiy Kotelenets, Nataliya Alyexeyenko, John Mavrogiannis, and Scott Beaudin. Plot The film's story takes place the week preceding the Victoria Day long weekend in Toronto, the year of 1988. The story line depicts the weeklong journey of a sixteen-year-old ordinary teenage boy, Ben Spektor, and the conspiring events that sequence to a coming-of-age story. The film begins on Sunday May 19, 1988. The Victoria Day weekend is fast approaching, initiating the coming end of another high school year. The attention of characters first seems to rest on the 1988 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup finals, which are in play in Boston with Wayne Gretzky's Edmonton Oilers facing the Boston Bruins. Since Ben Spektor's life is mostly centered on hockey, he is portrayed as the star player of his Toronto Red Wings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary Herald
The ''Calgary Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser''. It is owned by the Postmedia Network. History ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser'' started publication on 31 August 1883 in a tent at the junction of the Bow and Elbow by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by "a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler." It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary. A year's subscription cost $3. When Hugh St. Quentin Cayley became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack. Cayley quickly became partner and editor. Eventually, the publisher's name was changed to Herald Publishing Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Docs POV
''CBC Docs POV'' is a Canadian television point-of-view documentary series, which airs on CBC Television."CBC documentary delivers useful, timely primer on pot". ''Edmonton Journal'', October 29, 2015. The series premiered in fall 2015 under the title ''Firsthand'', replacing ''Doc Zone'', after the CBC discontinued its internal documentary production unit, and was renamed ''CBC Docs POV'' in 2017. The series airs one documentary film each week, commissioned from external producers rather than being produced directly by the CBC; some, but not all, films screened as part of the series have also had longer versions separately released as theatrical feature documentaries. Repeat airings of the series have also sometimes included films which were originally broadcast as part of ''Doc Zone''. The CBC announced in 2021 that it would not commission further documentaries under the ''CBC Docs POV'' brand, instead merging all documentary broadcasts into ''The Passionate Eye ''The Passion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village Media
Village Media is a Canadian media company which operates a number of hyperlocal online news and community websites throughout Ontario."Media outlets partner to expand Northern news network" ''Northern Ontario Business'', October 2, 2014. Village Media's news sites focus on providing local stories written by local journalists in the communities that they serve. In addition to local news, the sites offer weather, events, obituaries, and a wide range of community information. Village Media is known for supporting local events and charitable causes. The company also maintains content and marketing partnerships with community newspapers in several other Ontario cities, including '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nature Of Things
''The Nature of Things'' (formerly, ''The Nature of Things with David Suzuki'') is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on 6 November 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it, although the program's overall scope includes documentaries on any aspect of science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu .... The program "was one of the first mainstream programs to present scientific evidence on a number of environmental issues, including nuclear power and genetic engineering". The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "De rerum natura"—'' On the Nature of Things''. History The first host was Donald Ivey, with Patterson Hume co-hosting many episodes. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acquainted With The Night (film)
''Acquainted with the Night: Excursions through the World after Dark'' is a Canadian television documentary film directed by Michael McNamara (filmmaker), Michael McNamara, which was broadcast by Documentary Channel (Canadian TV channel), Documentary in September 2010.Ted Shaw, "Documentary seeks answers after dark". ''Windsor Star'', September 18, 2010. Adapted from the nonfiction book by Christopher Dewdney, the film explores various aspects of life at nighttime, both in human and wilderness environments. Events depicted in the film include religious ceremonies, nighttime cultural events such as Nuit Blanche, intimate moments such as parents reading stories to their children at bedtime, philosophical musings on the effects of nighttime light pollution, and visuals of nocturnal animals. The film premiered on Documentary on September 19, 2010. It subsequently received a theatrical screening at the 2010 Windsor International Film Festival. Awards McNamara won the Gemini Award for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
