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Canadians at the Oscars, by the Numbers - If the Academy Awards® can be called the Olympic Games of Entertainment, then it was an entirely  different level of competition facing Team Canada last night in tinsel town. Going into "the games" with a record number of nominations, Team Canada walked away with nothing. Nada. Zilch. As the night began we had racked up 14 nominations in seven different movies and there was some hope that our nomination-to-winner ratio would be the best ever. It was not to be. We didn't even get close to the podium.
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Polytechnique Leads 30th Annual Genie Noms - Three-time Genie Award-winner Gordon Pinsent  and relative newcomer Tatiana Maslany were on hand to announce the nominations for the 30th annual Genie Awards, yesterday. Polytechnqiue, a film about the 1989 massacre of 14 students in Montréal was one of five films nominated for Best Motion Picture and it went on to pick up 10 more nominations, more than any other film.
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Female Eye Announces 2010 Line-up - The 2009 film, A Wake from Canadian director Penelope Buitenhuis has been selected as the opening Gala film for the 2010 edition of the Female Eye Film Festival. The five-day festival, which gets underway on March 24th, was founded in 2001 and is Ontario's only annual international independent film Festival showcasing films directed by women.
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Writers Guild Announces Finalists - The people at the Writers Guild of Canada have been busy carefully considering more than 148 scripts that had been submitted for the 14th annual WGC Screenwriting Awards. The Guild has announced 43 finalists in 11 categories. In all, 76 screenwriters are up for awards, and the nominees are...
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Remembering Corey Haim. Canadian-born actor Corey Haim has died of a reported drug overdose early this morning in a Los Angeles hospital. According to the LA County coroner's office, Haim, who had a history of drug abuse, died at 2:15 this morning. An autopsy will determine the cause of death and according to a Sgt. Michael Kammert, there was no evidence of foul play.
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The award-winning screenwriter, producer, executive producer, director and program creator, Paul Haggis celebrates his 57th  birthday today. When he was growing up his parents owned and operated the Gallery Theatre in London, Ontario, and Haggis cut his teeth in theater production, directing, and as a playwright in the early 1970s. He was the creative force behind programs like Due South, Family Law, EZ Streets, City and thirtysomething. So far he has picked up a couple of Emmy awards, a Golden Globe, the TV Critics Association Program of the Year Award, Viewers For Quality Television Founders Award, the Columbia Mystery Writers Award and six Gemini Awards to name just some of the honours he has received. |
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| Contributing Editor Maurie Alioff has filed his March column and first up he takes an in-depth look at Léa Pool's new film, La Dernière fugue (The Last Escape) including details of how the funding for script development went awry and how the final financing was put together. With February gone, the annual celebration of Québec film has drawn to a close and Maurie takes a look back at the 2010 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. There's a quick look at the International Festival of Films and a comment on the 2010 Prix Jutra nominees. All this and more for March, Inside Québec. |
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