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05/23/2017

Ancestry.ca Digitizes 32 Million Census Listings

Toronto - Ancestry.ca, in partnership with Library and Archives Canada (LAC), today completed the world-first online launch of the Historical Canadian Censuses, 1851-1916. Never before have all of the nine available national censuses(1) been published online, fully indexed and including original doc...

11/15/2016

05/18/2016

The caped heroine series joins comic book shows The Flash, Arrow and Supernatural in Vancouver.

05/11/2016

Increased competition from streaming services like Netflix is creating more demand for content

05/11/2016

This year's Cannes Film Festival lineup signals a bright future for Canadian cinema, say industry experts. Montreal directors Xavier Dolan, Kim Nguyen and François Jaros, as well as Toronto's Nathan Morlando and Leah Johnston of Truro, N.S., have titles screening at the prestigious festival, which…

05/02/2016

New BC Film Tax Credit Rates Give Industry Certainty And Protect Taxpayers

Consultations with the B.C. film and television industry have led to proposed adjustments to the province’s film tax credit rates that provide certainty to the film industry while keeping the subsidy affordable for taxpayers, Finance Minister Michael de Jong announced today.

04/26/2016

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04/23/2016

Changes to Canada’s cultural policies would be first major overhaul in decades, reports Daniel Leblanc. 'Everything is on the table,' says Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly

04/23/2016

Over 150 creative teams from and are competing for $10k grants. Your vote gets them one step closer to making their dream a reality.

04/21/2016

Netflix's Making A Murderer To Be Honoured at Banff World Media Festival2016. Show's Creators will be on-hand for an Exclusive Master Class and to accept the Program of the Year Award at the Rockie Awards Gala

BANFF is thrilled to announce that Netflix's Making A Murderer will be honored at the Rockie Awards Gala with the Program of the Year Award. The show's creators, Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, will accept the Award and will be featured in a special Master Class, open to all delegates.
The 10-part documentary series follows Steven Avery, who was wrongly imprisoned for 18 years for sexual assault and attempted murder before being exonerated in 2003. Two years later, he was arrested and charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach.

Undoubtedly, Making A Murderer was one of the most talked about shows of this past year. BANFF is excited its delegates will have the opportunity to hear directly from the show's creators about the story that captivated the world.
Register for BANFF today to be among the lucky group to hear directly from the minds documenting one of the most intriguing stories of the 21st century.

04/21/2016

A proof-of-concept is a scene from your feature film script, shot and fashioned into a short, to provide an example of the writing, directing and cinematography that will go into the feature.

04/21/2016

NATIVE EARTH PERFORMING ARTS AND DANCEWORKS COWORKS PRESENT An Indigenous Dance Double Bill Luu hlotitxw: Spirit Transforming by Dancers of Damelahamid and NGS (Native Girl Syndrome) by Lara Kramer April 21 – 23, 2016 in Aki Studio TORONTO, ON – Two transformations; two dramatically different…