OTTAWA – The Department of Canadian Heritage said Tuesday it is beginning a Canada-wide search for two new members of the Canada Media Fund Corporation’s board of directors.
This “open, transparent and merit-based selection process will result in the recommendation of high-quality candidates and will strive for gender parity and to truly reflect Canada’s diversity,” the department said in a release. CMF board members are chosen by Heritage and will be nominated by Minister Mélanie Joly.
The CMF, of course, fosters, promotes, develops and finances the production of Canadian content and relevant applications for all audiovisual media platforms. It is…
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OTTAWA and GATINEAU – Community media groups are taking exception to being left out of two recent Canadian media reports.
The Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) and the Fédération des télévisions communautaires autonomes du Québec (la Fédération) are criticizing the Public Policy Forum’s report The Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy, and Trust in the Digital Age and Heritage Canada’s #DigiCanCon report, What We Heard Across Canada: Canadian Culture in a Digital World.
In a joint statement, CACTUS and la Fédération said that it is “surprising and disappointing to find but a passing mention in both of community…
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GATINEAU – Canada has become the first country outside of Europe to join Eurimages, the Council of Europe's common film coproduction fund.
Established in 1989, Eurimages promotes the European audiovisual industry by providing financial support to feature films, animation and documentaries produced in Europe. It has an annual budget of about EUR22 million (C$32.2 million), which is granted to approximately 70 films per year.
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly said Wednesday that membership in the fund will help to increase the number of audiovisual co-productions between Canada and European countries.
"Our government understands the importance of supporting Canadian creators in accessing international markets and…
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OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada vowed to become more digital, more local, and more ambitious in its Canadian programming in a new plan detailing how it will spend the federal government’s reinvestment.
The public broadcaster released its accountability plan Wednesday, in response to Budget 2016 which promised to invest an additional $75M in CBC/Radio-Canada for 2016-2017, rising to $150M in the following years. But it also tasked Minister of Canadian Heritage Joly to work with the public broadcaster to develop an accountability plan on how the funds would be allocated.
According to the aptly named CBC/Radio-Canada Accountability Plan, the Corp. will…
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MONTREAL – Telefilm and its partners are launching multiplatform "discoverability" initiatives designed to promote English- and French-language Canadian movies in honour of the 150th anniversary of Canada's Confederation.
Five initiatives aim to bring the best Canadian cinema has to offer to audiences at home and abroad:
– a specially curated Canada First collection of feature films exclusively for iTunes;
– a complimentary selection of Canadian films offered to travellers along VIA Rail Canada's Quebec City–Windsor corridor;
– a selection of films by up-and-coming Canadian directors on NFB.ca's Emerging Talents channel;
– the Spanish subtitling of restored heritage Quebec…
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TORONTO – TVO's first commissioned drama series, Hard Rock Medical, will return with nine new episodes in January.
The episodes will premiere on TVO starting on Sunday, January 8 at 8:00 PM, and for the first time, all of new the episodes will be available on demand on tvo.org following the January 8 broadcast. The series will also air on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN).
Loosely inspired by the world-renowned Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), Hard Rock Medical's students navigate their way through an offbeat medical training program in the North at Hard Rock U. …
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OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Hubert Lacroix is striking back at the private media owners who he claims are trying to weaken the public broadcaster in order to better their own bottom lines.
In an open letter to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, Lacroix disputed the notion that challenges facing media in Canada are caused by the public broadcaster, and defended the Corp’s decision to carry online advertising.
Lacroix reminded the Committee that in addition to its parliamentary appropriation, CBC/Radio-Canada is expected to generate revenue, and noted that last year CBC/Radio-Canada earned $600 million in self-generated revenue of…
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MONTREAL – Minister of Canadian Heritage Mélanie Joly brought #DigiCanCon to Montreal Friday, the fifth of six in-person discussions on Canada’s cultural and creative industries.
"Montréal, home of many successful and world-renowned artists, creators and cultural businesses, is a great place to continue our conversation”, she said in a statement. “I know that these discussions will allow our Government to better understand the needs and expectations regarding Canadian content creation, discovery and promotion in this new environment in which we live.”
Canadians are encouraged to join the conversation and take part in the discussions at any time through the Web portal and social…
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IQALUIT – Minister of Canadian Heritage Mélanie Joly brought #DigiCanCon to Nunavut Wednesday, the fourth of six in-person discussions on Canada’s cultural and creative industries.
"After successful stops in Vancouver, Halifax and Toronto, I am pleased to be in Iqaluit today for our fourth in-person discussion with Canadians, including artists, creators and cultural businesses”, she said in a statement. “I know that these discussions will allow our Government to better understand the issues and expectations regarding Canadian content creation, discovery and promotion in this new environment in which we live. Together, let's be innovative and find new ways to create and promote quality…
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TORONTO – Bell Media’s The Movie Network and Channel 4 (UK) have commissioned a new political thriller to mark the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Co-produced by Montreal’s Handel Productions and UK’s Arrow Media, Pearl Harbor: The Accused (TMN)/Pearl Harbor: The Truth (Channel 4) promises to reveal the untold story behind the failure to stop the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
In the subsequent public outrage, Admiral Husband Kimmel, commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, was found guilty of dereliction of duty and his career was destroyed. But the documentary vows to reveal new insight into who was actually to…
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