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  • ‘Push’ takes Sundance grand jury award
    Monday January 26th 2009

    A story of an abused inner-city teenager trying to set her life right moved audiences and the jury at the Sundance Film Festival, as “Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire,” won both the grand jury award and the audience award in the U.S. dramatic competition in Park City. The wins marked only the second time this decade that one film has taken both prizes.

  • Schmooze with director Bruce McDonald and friends
    Monday January 26th 2009

    This coming Wednesday, Toronto director Bruce McDonald is throwing a fundraiser for his new film, ”A Love Supreme” (based on the novel by Kent Nussey). Produced by award-winning filmmaker, Alison Duke, the film is a magical boy meets girl tale told through the music of Jazz Icon, John Coltrane, and performed by contemporary[…]

  • SAG faction calls for contract vote
    Friday January 23rd 2009

    NEW YORK — Nine days after a group of SAG moderates failed to oust national executive director Doug Allen, the guild’s hard-line faction MembershipFirst has issued a statement supporting Allen and called for the AMPTP’s offer for a new TV and film contract to be sent to members for a[…]

  • ‘Benjamin Button’ leads Oscar nominations
    Friday January 23rd 2009

    With 13 nominations, romantic fable “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” led the parade as the nominations for the 81st Annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday. The Paramount/Warners co-production will compete in the best picture race with the political dramas “Frost/Nixon” and “Milk,” the post-Holocaust tale “The Reader” and the Mumbai-set rags-to-riches story “Slumdog Millionaire.” “The Dark Knight,” the most popular movie of the year, was frozen out of the best picture race.

  • National Film Board puts hundreds of movies online
    Thursday January 22nd 2009

    he National Film Board of Canada is putting hundreds of its celebrated documentaries, animation and fiction work online, allowing movie fans around the world to catch them for free. The initiative is just one of the ways the NFB will mark its 70th anniversary this year and signals the board is embracing revolutionary changes that have been taking over the film industry, says NFB chair Tom Perlmutter.

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Archives for: January 20095
  • ‘Push’ takes Sundance grand jury award
    Monday January 26th 2009

    A story of an abused inner-city teenager trying to set her life right moved audiences and the jury at the Sundance Film Festival, as “Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire,” won both the grand jury award and the audience award in the U.S. dramatic competition in Park City. The wins marked only the second time this decade that one film has taken both prizes.

  • Schmooze with director Bruce McDonald and friends
    Monday January 26th 2009

    This coming Wednesday, Toronto director Bruce McDonald is throwing a fundraiser for his new film, ”A Love Supreme” (based on the novel by Kent Nussey). Produced by award-winning filmmaker, Alison Duke, the film is a magical boy meets girl tale told through the music of Jazz Icon, John Coltrane, and performed by contemporary[…]

  • SAG faction calls for contract vote
    Friday January 23rd 2009

    NEW YORK — Nine days after a group of SAG moderates failed to oust national executive director Doug Allen, the guild’s hard-line faction MembershipFirst has issued a statement supporting Allen and called for the AMPTP’s offer for a new TV and film contract to be sent to members for a[…]

  • ‘Benjamin Button’ leads Oscar nominations
    Friday January 23rd 2009

    With 13 nominations, romantic fable “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” led the parade as the nominations for the 81st Annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday. The Paramount/Warners co-production will compete in the best picture race with the political dramas “Frost/Nixon” and “Milk,” the post-Holocaust tale “The Reader” and the Mumbai-set rags-to-riches story “Slumdog Millionaire.” “The Dark Knight,” the most popular movie of the year, was frozen out of the best picture race.

  • National Film Board puts hundreds of movies online
    Thursday January 22nd 2009

    he National Film Board of Canada is putting hundreds of its celebrated documentaries, animation and fiction work online, allowing movie fans around the world to catch them for free. The initiative is just one of the ways the NFB will mark its 70th anniversary this year and signals the board is embracing revolutionary changes that have been taking over the film industry, says NFB chair Tom Perlmutter.

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Archives for: January 20095
  • ‘Push’ takes Sundance grand jury award
    Monday January 26th 2009

    A story of an abused inner-city teenager trying to set her life right moved audiences and the jury at the Sundance Film Festival, as “Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire,” won both the grand jury award and the audience award in the U.S. dramatic competition in Park City. The wins marked only the second time this decade that one film has taken both prizes.

  • Schmooze with director Bruce McDonald and friends
    Monday January 26th 2009

    This coming Wednesday, Toronto director Bruce McDonald is throwing a fundraiser for his new film, ”A Love Supreme” (based on the novel by Kent Nussey). Produced by award-winning filmmaker, Alison Duke, the film is a magical boy meets girl tale told through the music of Jazz Icon, John Coltrane, and performed by contemporary[…]

  • SAG faction calls for contract vote
    Friday January 23rd 2009

    NEW YORK — Nine days after a group of SAG moderates failed to oust national executive director Doug Allen, the guild’s hard-line faction MembershipFirst has issued a statement supporting Allen and called for the AMPTP’s offer for a new TV and film contract to be sent to members for a[…]

  • ‘Benjamin Button’ leads Oscar nominations
    Friday January 23rd 2009

    With 13 nominations, romantic fable “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” led the parade as the nominations for the 81st Annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday. The Paramount/Warners co-production will compete in the best picture race with the political dramas “Frost/Nixon” and “Milk,” the post-Holocaust tale “The Reader” and the Mumbai-set rags-to-riches story “Slumdog Millionaire.” “The Dark Knight,” the most popular movie of the year, was frozen out of the best picture race.

  • National Film Board puts hundreds of movies online
    Thursday January 22nd 2009

    he National Film Board of Canada is putting hundreds of its celebrated documentaries, animation and fiction work online, allowing movie fans around the world to catch them for free. The initiative is just one of the ways the NFB will mark its 70th anniversary this year and signals the board is embracing revolutionary changes that have been taking over the film industry, says NFB chair Tom Perlmutter.

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