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Cdn. filmmakers Guy Maddin and Nick Fox-Gieg win prizes at SXSW festival
Thursday March 18th 2010Winnipeg movie maker Guy Maddin and Toronto-based animator and video artist Nick Fox-Gieg have won film awards at the South by Southwest festival in Texas. Maddin nabbed the jury award for best experimental short film for “Night Mayor,” which is described as a “comical fantasia” about a Bosnian immigrant in Winnipeg. And Fox-Gieg won the jury award for best animated short for “The Orange,” a humorous and surreal tale of the history of the citrus fruit. “Night Mayor” was produced by Joe MacDonald of a Winnipeg branch of the National Film Board, which won a Web Award at the festival for its Waterlife Interactive site.
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N.Y. film tax credit is economic driver
Thursday March 18th 2010The Empire State’s $420 million production tax credits program, part of the state budget bill lawmakers are considering, has received a shot in the arm. New York comptroller Thomas DiNapoli issued a report Tuesday that credits previous incentive programs with driving $7 billion into the state’s economy from their 2004 launch through 2008. He also credits the program with contributing to the employment of as many as 63,000 people in 2008, double-digit-percentage job creation since the start of the incentives, as much as $5 billion in wages in 2008 and boosting state and local tax coffers.
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‘A black day’ in Ottawa as funding cut forces film training centre to close doors
Wednesday March 17th 2010The Canadian Screen Training Centre in Ottawa is closing its doors April 1, a victim of arts funding cuts by the Conservative government. The centre, founded in 1981, has been a leader in training people in film and video production. Its other program, the popular Summer Institute of Film and Television (SIFT), which brought famous Canadian directors, producers and screenwriters to town, is also shutting down.
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Canadian gets prison time for movie pirating
Wednesday March 17th 2010VANCOUVER (Reuters) – A Montreal man that police described as one of Canada’s biggest movie pirates was sentenced to two and a half months in prison on Tuesday for distributing copies of films he secretly recorded in theaters. Geremi Adam, who had pleaded guilty, is the first Canadian to be[…]
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Hollywood stems outflow
Tuesday March 16th 2010In a bid to stanch the outflow of film and TV jobs from California, advocates have set up an organization to educate voters and help foster a political climate more conducive to enacting additional government incentives to retain production.
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Archives for: March 20105
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Cdn. filmmakers Guy Maddin and Nick Fox-Gieg win prizes at SXSW festival
Thursday March 18th 2010Winnipeg movie maker Guy Maddin and Toronto-based animator and video artist Nick Fox-Gieg have won film awards at the South by Southwest festival in Texas. Maddin nabbed the jury award for best experimental short film for “Night Mayor,” which is described as a “comical fantasia” about a Bosnian immigrant in Winnipeg. And Fox-Gieg won the jury award for best animated short for “The Orange,” a humorous and surreal tale of the history of the citrus fruit. “Night Mayor” was produced by Joe MacDonald of a Winnipeg branch of the National Film Board, which won a Web Award at the festival for its Waterlife Interactive site.
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N.Y. film tax credit is economic driver
Thursday March 18th 2010The Empire State’s $420 million production tax credits program, part of the state budget bill lawmakers are considering, has received a shot in the arm. New York comptroller Thomas DiNapoli issued a report Tuesday that credits previous incentive programs with driving $7 billion into the state’s economy from their 2004 launch through 2008. He also credits the program with contributing to the employment of as many as 63,000 people in 2008, double-digit-percentage job creation since the start of the incentives, as much as $5 billion in wages in 2008 and boosting state and local tax coffers.
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‘A black day’ in Ottawa as funding cut forces film training centre to close doors
Wednesday March 17th 2010The Canadian Screen Training Centre in Ottawa is closing its doors April 1, a victim of arts funding cuts by the Conservative government. The centre, founded in 1981, has been a leader in training people in film and video production. Its other program, the popular Summer Institute of Film and Television (SIFT), which brought famous Canadian directors, producers and screenwriters to town, is also shutting down.
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Canadian gets prison time for movie pirating
Wednesday March 17th 2010VANCOUVER (Reuters) – A Montreal man that police described as one of Canada’s biggest movie pirates was sentenced to two and a half months in prison on Tuesday for distributing copies of films he secretly recorded in theaters. Geremi Adam, who had pleaded guilty, is the first Canadian to be[…]
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Hollywood stems outflow
Tuesday March 16th 2010In a bid to stanch the outflow of film and TV jobs from California, advocates have set up an organization to educate voters and help foster a political climate more conducive to enacting additional government incentives to retain production.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: March 20105
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Cdn. filmmakers Guy Maddin and Nick Fox-Gieg win prizes at SXSW festival
Thursday March 18th 2010Winnipeg movie maker Guy Maddin and Toronto-based animator and video artist Nick Fox-Gieg have won film awards at the South by Southwest festival in Texas. Maddin nabbed the jury award for best experimental short film for “Night Mayor,” which is described as a “comical fantasia” about a Bosnian immigrant in Winnipeg. And Fox-Gieg won the jury award for best animated short for “The Orange,” a humorous and surreal tale of the history of the citrus fruit. “Night Mayor” was produced by Joe MacDonald of a Winnipeg branch of the National Film Board, which won a Web Award at the festival for its Waterlife Interactive site.
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N.Y. film tax credit is economic driver
Thursday March 18th 2010The Empire State’s $420 million production tax credits program, part of the state budget bill lawmakers are considering, has received a shot in the arm. New York comptroller Thomas DiNapoli issued a report Tuesday that credits previous incentive programs with driving $7 billion into the state’s economy from their 2004 launch through 2008. He also credits the program with contributing to the employment of as many as 63,000 people in 2008, double-digit-percentage job creation since the start of the incentives, as much as $5 billion in wages in 2008 and boosting state and local tax coffers.
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‘A black day’ in Ottawa as funding cut forces film training centre to close doors
Wednesday March 17th 2010The Canadian Screen Training Centre in Ottawa is closing its doors April 1, a victim of arts funding cuts by the Conservative government. The centre, founded in 1981, has been a leader in training people in film and video production. Its other program, the popular Summer Institute of Film and Television (SIFT), which brought famous Canadian directors, producers and screenwriters to town, is also shutting down.
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Canadian gets prison time for movie pirating
Wednesday March 17th 2010VANCOUVER (Reuters) – A Montreal man that police described as one of Canada’s biggest movie pirates was sentenced to two and a half months in prison on Tuesday for distributing copies of films he secretly recorded in theaters. Geremi Adam, who had pleaded guilty, is the first Canadian to be[…]
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Hollywood stems outflow
Tuesday March 16th 2010In a bid to stanch the outflow of film and TV jobs from California, advocates have set up an organization to educate voters and help foster a political climate more conducive to enacting additional government incentives to retain production.
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