The Canadian New Media Awards (CNMAs), the country’s only nationwide competition recognizing the accomplishments of Canada’s most successful digital media companies, is now open for nominations.
Celebrating its 10th year, The CNMAs are taking place as part of nextMEDIA Toronto, Canada’s leading digital media production and development marketplace, taking place November 29 to December 1, 2010 at the Toronto Design Exchange – the CNMAs gala awards will be held December 1, 2010 at The Design Exchange in Toronto.
SAVE THE DATE: MAD MEN, MARTINIS AND MOVIES – A SIXTIES THEMED FUNDRAISER
In Support of the Feature Film Production ‘Hello, Darling’ and the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010
Time: 8:30pm – 1:00am
Place: Gas Station Theatre – 445 River Ave, Winnipeg
Price: $20 (includes one martini)
$15 (includes one non-alcoholic martini)
Tickets can be purchased at On Screen Manitoba (100 - 62 Albert Street) or call 228-2262.
Online Producer
We have a new career opportunity for an experienced individual who will be responsible for the production of online content for APTN, including aptn.ca and affiliated websites (e.g., digitaldrum.ca)
Download the full APTN ONLINE PRODUCER POSTING (PDF)
Aboriginal Actor’s Workshop - Part I
August | 6th | 7th | 8th, 2010
Time:
Friday - 6 pm – 10 pm
Saturday - 10 am – 6 pm
Sunday - 1 pm – 6:30 pm
Rebecca Gibson
Gabrielle Touchette
CANADA PAVILION AT MIPCOM 2010
October 4 to 8, 2010
Cannes, France
Telefilm Canada is currently soliciting applications from Canadian production and distribution companies for MIPCOM 2010. MIPCOM is the most important global content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms. It provides the key decision-makers in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry with conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.
Under the Canada Pavilion umbrella, Telefilm Canada, its partners and sponsor, offer many services at attractive rates.
Aboriginal Actor’s Workshops - Part 2
Dates August | 14th | 15th, 2010
Time: 10 am – 6 pm
Instructor: Dean Harder
Location: The Urban Shaman Gallery (203-290 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, MB)
Cost: FREE (This course has been valued at $500. Film Training Manitoba is pleased to offer our training at a subsidized cost for the MB film industry.)
New Media Manitoba presents TWO half day sessions this August from their "Beat to Tweet" series that will rejuvenate, renew, and reload your social business strategy in 2010. It's like Hot Yoga for your social media mojo. :)
Trainer,
Lloyd Hannesson
, recently returned from the Mashable Media Summit in New York featuring some of the most notable social media speakers across North America including CNN, Starbucks, College Humor, Mashable, The Onion, and actor/activist Edward Norton.
NSI is now accepting films for its NSI Online Short Film Festival.
Deadline to submit films, for free is 4:30 P.M. CST, Thursday, August 26, 2010.
Films must be no longer than 30 minutes. Drama, comedy, animation, short documentaries and experimental films are all eligible and must be Canadian.
New films are solicited four times a year. Get details and a submission form here.
2011 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Park City, Utah, United States, January 20 to 30, 2011
(Feature films only: narratives and documentaries)
Start of Canadian selection screenings in Montréal: open to narrative films of 50 minutes : September 8, 2010
Registration deadline with Telefilm Canada : August 27, 2010
Start of Canadian selection screenings in los angeles: open to documentary films of 50 minutes : August 26, 2010
Registration deadline with Telefilm Canada : August 13, 2010
61st Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale 2011)
Berlin, Germany, February 10 to 20, 2011
(Feature films only, 60 minutes: all genres)
The Canadian Selection Screenings in Montréal open to feature-length films of 60 minutes, all genres excluding documentaries, for the Competition, Panorama, Generation and Forum, will take place from September 6 to 8, 2010.
Telefilm Canada is accepting submissions of documentaries of 60 minutes on behalf of the Festival and will coordinate a consolidated shipment of documentaries to Berlin.
The Festival waives its entry fees for films presented at the Canadian Selection Screenings in Montréal or entered via Telefilm Canada.
Following a program review done in close collaboration with the industry, including the Canada Feature Film Fund Working Group, Telefilm Canada has announced the reopening of the Programme d’aide à l’écriture de scénarios for a two-year period, from 2010 to 2012.
Our next deadline for the Corporate Capacity Growth Program is
September 15th, On Screen Manitoba will contribute up to 70%, to a cap of $5,000, per successfully juried Production Company.The program provides financial assistance relating to discreet strategic or business planning projects, completed within the designated program period (Any four month period between April 1, 2010 and March 31, 2011).
NSI Features First - training to help get your first feature film made
Canadian filmmaking teams working on their first or second feature film can apply for training through NSI Features First. Run by Canada’s National Screen Institute (NSI), the program prepares you for production through customized, intensive training and mentoring with industry professionals. It aims to help filmmakers hone their script while also understanding the business aspects of feature film development.
The teams chosen for the program are not required to pay tuition fees or relocate and, after initial training, learning opportunities are developed close to home.
The CFC NFB Documentary Program is a unique laboratory for the development of successful:
* feature documentaries
* mid-length documentaries
* interactive documentaries
Up to four accomplished Canadian directors with viable concepts for creative documentary projects will be selected to participate in this unique program, which begins in November 2010.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15, 2010
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
October 20 - 24, 2010
Five days of Indigenous film, video, radio, new media, art, entertainment, and so much more.
The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival will celebrate its 11th year with the festival running October 20 - 24, 2010 at the Al Green Theatre and various other venues in downtown Toronto. imagineNATIVE celebrates new works by Indigenous people on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media.
The Festival will kick off at 1:00pm at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto with welcomes from imagineNATIVE, the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation and Indigenous artists of the world, a traditional welcoming song, and traditional North American Indigenous food.