BANFF – Last year the new owners of the Banff World Media Festival arrived only just in time to snag the last few hotel vacancies.But for 2018, Brunico Communications is... Continue Reading
BANFF – Federal Heritage Minister Melanie Joly, as she has done for each of the last three years, delivered the opening keynote address at this year’s Banff World Media Festival... Continue Reading
BANFF – The biggest, and perhaps most frustrating, story of 2017 remains the current – and exceedingly unpredictable – administration of President Donald Trump.World leaders, and the worldwide public, are... Continue Reading
BANFF – The recent controversy about cultural appropriation is only the latest Canadian flashpoint regarding Indigenous peoples and their relationship with centuries of non-indigenous immigration.But can such grappling with identity,... Continue Reading
WELL, GIVEN THAT WE'RE celebrating media in Alberta, let's just start by saying that CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais demurred from simply mumbling "adios" and riding quietly into a western sunset.This... Continue Reading
“I will be presenting my vision for the creative sector in September”OKAY, FULL TRANSPARENCY, I wasn't going to scribble about this.I went to the advertised keynote partly to hear the... Continue Reading
THE ANNUAL CANADIAN MEDIA LEADERS panel at the 2017 Banff World Media Festival pivoted from the future of production, development, and broadcast screen-based content to the onslaught of streaming opportunities... Continue Reading
FOR 38 YEARS NOW, various incarnations of the Banff World Media Festival have brought the most interesting media executives from across our quick-stepping media landscape to the postcard perfect, heart... Continue Reading
Listen in as Bill Roberts interviews Claude Joli-Coeur, the government film commissioner and chair of the National Film Board.The NFB has long been a global leader in the film space... Continue Reading
LOOKING BACK ON THE recent Banff World Media Festival, there are any number of valuable signposts for the future of our moving image industry.One which rattled my analog cage (in... Continue Reading
