On Screen Manitoba

Here is a look back at some milestones from the last 20 years!

1986: Total production budgets hit $500,000

1986: MANITOBA FILM & SOUND invests in the province's first feature film Crime Wave

1986: First Oscar nomination for a Manitoba production - The Big Snit, short animation by Richard Condie

1987: MMPIA and MANITOBA FILM & SOUND founded

1988: Guy Maddin's first feature completed: Tales From the Gimli Hospital

1990: Lost in the Barrens, supported by MANITOBA FILM & SOUND, is the province's first Emmy Award winner

1993: MMPIA creates the Blizzard Awards

1992/93: Total production budgets top $12 million

1995: Guy Maddin wins the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Telluride Film Festival
1996: Manitoba's first drama series, My Life as a Dog, is produced by Credo Entertainment

1997: CIGMO, Manitoba's first New Media training project launched

1997: Blizzard Award for Best Film of the Decade goes to: John Paizs' Crime Wave

1997: Manitoba Film & Video Production Tax Credit introduced

1997: First offshore production - A Marriage of Convenience

1998/99: Total production budgets reach $47 million

1999: NSI-Canada relocates to Winnipeg

1999: Film Training Manitoba is founded, evolving out of MMPIA's 1995 training strategy

1999: First member roast and presentation of the Snowball Award to Derek Mazur

2000: First Manitoba International trade mission - London and Dublin

2001: Creation of Manitoba Music & Motion Pictures Development (M3P) Project created by MMPIA and the Manitoba Audio Recording Industry Association (MARIA)

2002: MMPIA launches market development program ACCESS TO MARKETS

2003/04: Total production budgets top $100 million
2003: Manitoba hosts Canada Day in Los Angeles and a Manitoba International trade mission to LA

2004: First Manitoba party at TIFF

2004: 21 Gemini nominations for Manitoba productions and craftspeople

2004: Frantic Films named one of the Profit "100 Fastest Growing Companies"" in Canada

2004: Numan Productions wins CTV Documart (World's Richest Pitch) at Banff World Television Festival - Hockey Brawl goes on to win Gemini in 2006

2005: Les Productions Rivard celebrates 10 years

2005: Province of Manitoba increases tax credit to 45% and as a leader in film incentives

Dear members,

In preparation for our 20th Anniversary MMPIA is compiling a listing of the top 20 award winning film and tv productions from the last twenty years. Preparing this list is tougher than we realized and we'd like your help.

Your help needed!
The best way for us to collect a list of award winning productions from the last 20 years is for the producers and filmmakers to provide us with this info directly.

Please send us info on your award-winning Manitoba-made productions!

We are looking for productions made between 1987 and 2007 that have won 'Best of' awards for the entire production. Unfortunately given the brevity of the list we are not able to include craft awards. Feel free to send this info anyways as we are intending to build a databank of Manitoba production community achievements! Please include:

Name of your production:
Type of award won:
Category:
Year:

Milestone productions
We are also looking for milestone productions. If you think your production helped the Manitoba community 'break ground' and reach a new level please send us a little description of why you think that. An example might be My Life As a Dog - the first dramatic television series to be filmed and produced in Manitoba.

We need this info to tara@mmpia.ca ASAP: Deadline is Monday