Established in 1979, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a national, non-profit, professional association dedicated to the promotion, recognition, and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canadian film and television. Unifying professionals across Canada, the ACCT is a vital and integral force, representing all areas of the film and television industries.
It’s a great time to announce the Making A Scene Tweet Like A Shatner contest! Go to the CBC.CA site and post your best tweets from a William Shatner character - anyone from Denny Crane to James T. Kirk to T.J. Hooker to The Big Giant Head.
The winner will receive a full year’s membership to the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television! A Membership to ACCT entitles you to a full year of FREE Canadian Movies at the following theatres:
* AMC Theatres * Cinema Beaubien (Montréal) * Cinemark/Tinseltown Theatre (Vancouver) * Cineplex Entertainment (including Cineplex Odeon, Famous Players and Galaxy Theatres) * Empire Theatres * Festival Cinemas in Vancouver (Fifth Avenue, The Park and The Ridge Theatres) * Landmark Cinemas
So get your entry in before the contest closes on September 29th, 2010 at 11:59 PM ET!
The NFB’s blog on their interview with Genie-award-winning filmmaker Lois Siegel about her feature documentary about women and baseball. In 1990 Siegel’s film Stunt People won a Genie Award for Best Short and her films have been presented internationally.
On viewing the film today, I can’t help but smiling throughout. It has a certain innocence that is heart-warming. I spent my childhood playing baseball and I can sympathize with Siegel who just wanted to play. The historical material is fascinating (I especially enjoyed learning about the game in the 19th century) and the Spaceman, Bill Lee, makes an appearance. You can’t help but be carried away with Siegel’s enthusiasm.
Next up in the series on the The Academy’s 30th Anniversary Top 10 Lists is the film Ticket To Heaven (1982), a film (starring Sex and the City’s Kim Cattrall) about a man recruited into a cult. Here’s the trailer:
Said one review about the film:
“…its images are burned into my mind. This is such a powerful movie that I would offer a caution to potential viewers — the material is both gripping and frightening, and you’ll never view certain ‘organizations’ as harmless ever again.”
Check out the new page for the big one-hour special Making A Scene: 30 Years Of Genies hosted by none other than William Shatner! This anniversary special will air Friday, Sept 24th at 7pm!
By Peter Howell Movie Critic Expressions of adoration by US movie critics towards a certain small Canadian film have been so intense, it makes you wonder if … See all stories on this topic »
Canadian filmmaker Andrea Dorfman’s (Parsley Days, Love That Boy) short film “How To Be Alone” has become a viral hit with over 350,000 views on Youtube. Word spread fast online about this mediation on loneliness based on a poem by Halifax poet Tanya Davis. Along with Facebook, the film has recieved link love from reddit, twitter (including the grand Poo-Bah of Twitter Roger Ebert), metafilter and popular blogs like Andrew Sullivan’s at The Atlantic.
Today the NFB posted their interview with Dorfman asking the director about the project’s origins, where it was shown before she uploaded it online and why she thinks it’s become so popular:
“It goes back to our need to belong. I think, as social primates, we want to feel a strong sense of belonging either in a relationship or to a community - or both. But also intrinsic to our humanity is a feeling that we are truly alone.”
Davis said she doesn’t get any money from YouTube, but she thinks the worldwide exposure will help her career.
“I’m getting all these emails from people expressing their interest and how much they like the video. And some of them are brand new to my work,” she said.
I just caught this flick in cinemas, it’s a Canadian film about this seventeen year old who believes he is the reincarnation of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, and becomes a little red pill for his high school’s ‘fascist’ faculty. The wit and production value definitely exceeded my expectations, and it’s always relieving to know Canadian cinema produces quality films now and then.
Next up in the series on the The Academy’s 30th Anniversary Top 10 Lists is the film 
