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TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award
The TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award is a Canadian award, jointly presented by the Toronto International Film Festival and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian Public broadcasting, public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its E ... to foster the production of new screenplays by emerging filmmakers. The winner of the award receives a $15,000 prize and various mentorship opportunities to assist in the production of their film. Unlike most TIFF-related awards, it is not presented at the festival itself, but in an independent announcement in the late winter or early spring each year. Winners References Canadian film awards Screenwriting awards for film Toronto International Film Festival awards {{Canada-award-stub ... [...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] |
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organization behind the film festival is also a permanent destination for film culture operating out of the TIFF Lightbox cultural centre, located in downtown Toronto. The Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award, TIFF People's Choice Award – which is based on audience balloting – has emerged as an indicator of success during Film awards seasons, awards season, especially at the Academy Awards. Past recipients of this award include Oscar-winning films, such as ''Chariots of Fire'' (1981), ''Life Is Beautiful'' (1998), ''American Beauty (1999 film), American Beauty'' (1999), ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' (2000), ''Slumdog Millionaire'' (2008), ''The King's Speech'' (2010), ''Silver Linings Playbook'' (2012), ''12 Years a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian Public broadcasting, public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively. Although some local stations in Canada predate its founding, the CBC is the oldest continually-existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique (international radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website). The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the French-language Ici Radio-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Deer
Tracey Penelope ''Tekahentakwa'' Deer (born February 28, 1978) is a First Nations ( Mohawk) screenwriter, film director and newspaper publisher based in Kahnawake, Quebec. She has written and directed several award-winning documentaries for Rezolution Pictures, an Aboriginal-run film and television production company. In 2008, she was the first Mohawk woman to win a Gemini Award, for her documentary '' Club Native''. Her TV series ''Mohawk Girls'' had five seasons from 2014 to 2017. She also founded her own production company for independent short work. In March 2021, Deer's dramatic film ''Beans'' was featured at the New York International Children's Film Festival. Set during the Oka crisis of 1990, which Deer lived through as an adolescent, it stars Kiawenti:io Tarbell ( Mohawk), a young actress from Akwesasne. Early life and education Tracey Deer was born in 1978 and grew up in a large, close-knit Mohawk family in Kahnawake, a reserve in Quebec, Canada that is south of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredith Vuchnich
Meredith Vuchnich is a Canadian film and television screenwriter, most noted as cowriter with Tracey Deer of the 2020 film ''Beans''. They won the TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award in 2019 and the WGC Screenwriting Award for Best Feature Film in 2021,Musthafa Azeez"Schitt’s Creek and Trickster win big at WGC Screenwriting Awards" ''The Globe and Mail'', April 27, 2021. and were nominated for a Prix Iris Best Screenplay at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022 for this work. Vuchnich was also a Gemini Award nominee for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series at the 23rd Gemini Awards in 2008 for her work on the television series ''ReGenesis''. Her other writing credits have included the series ''Train 48'', ''Godiva's'', '' Wild Roses'', ''The Saddle Club'', ''Remedy'', and ''Carter''. She has also had occasional roles as an actress, most notably in a 2001 stage production of ''Salt-Water Moon'' and the 2005 film ''Love Is Work''.Jason Anderson"Love Is Work" ''The Globe and Mail '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beans (2020 Film)
''Beans'' is a 2020 Canadian drama film directed by Mohawk-Canadian filmmaker Tracey Deer. It explores the 1990 Oka Crisis at Kanesatake, which Deer lived through as a child, through the eyes of Tekehentahkhwa (nicknamed "Beans"), a young Mohawk girl whose perspective on life is radically changed by these events.Norman Wilner"VIFF review: Tracey Deer’s 'Beans' finds its hero coming of age during the Oka crisis" ''The Georgia Straight'', September 16, 2020. The film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival,Victoria Ahearn"TIFF announces all 50 titles for pandemic-tailored 2020 event" ''Toronto Star'', July 30, 2020. where it was second runner up for the People's Choice Award. It was also featured at the 2021 New York International Children's Film Festival, among others. The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, along with the John Dunning Best First Feature Film Award. It was nominated for the Prix Iris ... [...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] |
Elyse Friedman
Elyse Friedman (born in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer who was raised in North York, Ontario.Andrew, Suzanne Alyssa. "Surviving Suburbia." taddlecreekmag.com, Taddle Creek Magazine, 2007. N. Pag. Web. November 1, 2010. Her latest novel, ''The Opportunist,'' released November 29, 2022. Education and career Elyse Friedman is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre. Personal life Elyse Friedman lives in Toronto. Awards and accomplishments Elyse Friedman has published four novels, one book of short stories, and a book of poems. Her work has been shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award, the Trillium Book Award and the Relit Award. Her story, The Soother, won the Gold National Magazine Award for fiction. Her stories have appeared in the Journey Prize Anthology, Best Canadian Stories and various literary journals and anthologies in Canada and the United States. Elyse's screenplay "Better Now" received the TIFF-CBC Screenwriter Award Jury Prize in 2019. In 2020, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasmine Mathurin
Yasmine Mathurin is a Haitian Canadian filmmaker, most noted for her 2021 film ''One of Ours''.Radheyan Simonpillai"2021’s best movies: Yasmine Mathurin finds healing in One Of Ours" ''Now'', December 16, 2021. The film was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary, and Mathurin was nominated for Best Direction in a Documentary Program and Best Writing in a Documentary Program, at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. Mathurin divided her time between Haiti and Montreal in childhood, before moving to Calgary as a teenager. After studying political science at York University in Toronto, she attained a fellowship at the United Nations in 2011, but became disenchanted with the bureaucratic aspects of politics and went back to school to study journalism. She subsequently created The Conversation Project, a web series in which she engaged her friends in conversation about Black Canadian culture and identity, and participated in a talent incubator run by Tor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Nasr
Ariel Nasr is a Canadian documentary film director."Halifax-born producer gets Oscar nod for short film" Nova Scotia, January 10, 2013. He is most noted as director of the films '' The Boxing Girls of Kabul'', which won the for [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Lee Choi
Lloyd Lee Choi is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is most noted for his 2022 short film '' Same Old'', which premiered in the short film competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Short Film jury at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Choi had planned to study aerospace engineering at university, but changed his mind and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to study film-making."Variable Adds Director Lloyd Lee Choi to US Roster" ''Little Black Book'', October 13, 2015. In 2015 he joined Variable, a -based film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Film Awards
The Canadian Film Awards were the leading Canadian cinema awards from 1949 until 1978. These honours were conducted annually, except in 1974 when a number of Quebec directors withdrew their participation and prompted a cancellation. In the 1970s they were also sometimes known as the Etrog Awards for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette. The awards were succeeded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema's Genie Awards in 1980; beginning in 2013 the Academy merged the Genie Awards with its separate Gemini Awards program for television to create the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards. History The award was first established in 1949 by the Canadian Association for Adult Education, under a steering committee that included the National Film Board's James Beveridge, the Canadian Foundation's Walter Herbert, filmmaker F. R. Crawley, the National Gallery of Canada's Donald Buchanan and diplomat Graham McInnes. The initial jury consisted of Hye Bossin, managing editor of ''Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
