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CSTC to Close - It's been a vital part of Canadian filmmaking for 30  years but the Ottawa-based non-profit Canadian Screen Training Centre (CSTC) has announced it will be closing its doors within the next 30 days. The decision comes after funding cuts in 2008.  |
Genies Go To Air and Online - The 30th Annual Genie Awards will reach out to movie fans everywhere  this year by not only broadcasting their gala awards show, but by streaming the presentation online so that just about anyone anywhere, with access to a computer, will be able to catch what should be the highpoint of the Canadian film season.
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The Trotsky Wins at KCFF - The Trotsky, starring Jay Baruchel, has  picked up a People's Choice Award from the Kingston Canadian Film Festival, which wrapped another year earlier this month. The film, which is billed as a teen comedy with a difference, opens in Canada on May 14th. |
Canadians at the Oscars, by the Numbers - If the Academy Awards® can be called the Olympic Games of Entertainment, then it was an entirelydifferent 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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| Dilip Mehta talks about the making of Cooking with Stella - Shot in India over a three month period and opening tomorrow in Toronto and Vancouver, the visually lush comedy, Cooking with Stella is only the second feature-length feature from Dilip Mehta and his first non-documentary film. Starring India's Seema Biswas along with Canadian actors Don McKellar and Lisa Ray, co-writer (with Deepa Mehta) and Director Dilip Mehta sat down last week for an on-camera interview with Northernstars. |
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Kate Nelligan began life in London, Ontario as Patricia Colleen Nelligan. She was enrolled at the University of Toronto but transferred to the Central School of Speech and  Drama in London, England. She made her first professional stage appearance in 1973 with an Old Vic company production in Bristol. One year later she made her London stage debut. While her first screen debut was in The Romantic Englishwoman, she is usually remembered for her second feature in the role of Lucy opposite Frank Langella in the 1979 version of Dracula. Later in her career she played exceptionally strong characters in such movies as Frankie & Johnny, Margaret's Museum, and The Cider House Rules.
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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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