September 2010
5 posts
Tweet Like a Shatner Contest!
Happy to report William Shatner Sings for a Canadian Genie Award video has gone viral and is just shy of +5,000 views! Propelled, no doubt, by our incessant tweeting and Facebooking (though @WilliamShatner’s own tweet with its +77 retweets might have played a small role in its success). It’s a great time to announce the Making A Scene Tweet Like A Shatner contest! Go to the CBC.CA...
Baseball Girls
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...
ACCT @30: Ticket To Heaven (1982)
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...
Making A Scene: 30 Years Of Genies →
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!
August 2010
3 posts
The Guardian on Maury Chaykin: Actor who was at... →
How a Canadian indie movie found its time has come →
110pages:
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 »
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Dorfman's 'How To Be Alone' An Online Hit
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...
July 2010
4 posts
Genie Award-winning Actor Maury Chaykin dies at 61
Very sad to hear that actor Maury Chaykin has died.
Our deepest condolences to Maury Chaykin’s family and friends.
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ACCT @30: The Changeling (1980)
The year 2009 marked the 30th anniversary of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, so to celebrate the occasion ACCT complied The Academy’s 30th Anniversary Top 10 Lists. As it’s a great resource for those looking for the best in Canadian film we’re going to highlight a few of these over the next little while here on the blog. Starting with the first on the list…
If...
May 2010
4 posts
Sandra Oh: Genie Awards are right up there with my...
Two time Genie Award winner and host of the 2008 Genie Awards Sandra Oh has been named one of Canada’s Most Beautiful Canadians by Hello! magazine. In a Q+A with the actor she was asked for her Beautiful Moment: “Winning the Golden Globe Award was one of the best moments of my life. Right up there with my Genie Awards”.
AGE: 38
HOMETOWN: Ottawa WHY WE LOVE HER: As the surly...
Interview with Gary Burns →
An interview with Genie Award winning director Gary Burns who is finishing up his new film called “The Future is Now!” with co-director Jim Brown. Brown and Burns both won Genie Awards for Best Documentary for their film “Radiant City.”
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"Petropolis" Documentary Provides Bird's-Eye View... →
“Petropolis” was nominated for a 2010 Genie Award.
Goodbye, Babz (by Mark Leiren-Young) →
Wonderful tribute to Babz Chula, Genie Award winner and much loved actor, who passed away last week after an eight-year battle with cancer.
April 2010
23 posts
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Animator Mag: The Cat Came Back →
Looks like we’re not the only blog getting our Cordell Barker on!
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Cordell Barker runs away with 2010 Genie Award
Cordell Barker, a winner at the 2010 Genie Awards, is one of Canadia’s premier animation directors. This year, along with Derek Mazur and Michael Scott, he took him the coveted Best Animated Short Genie for RUNAWAY (Train en folie). His previous two shorts, THE CAT CAME BACK and STRANGE INVADERS, have both been nominated for Oscars.
Here’s an interview with Barker that took place at...
POPSUGAR: Joshua Jackson Wins Best Actor Genie and... →
Missed this! TONS of pics!
Lainey Gossip: Josh & Diane at the Genies →
More Genies coverage!
(With more to come so Pacey yourself)
It would take you ONE WEEK to get through all the Genies coverage, so here are a few links to give you an idea of what people are saying about the 30th Annual Genie Awards…
First: the dress!
Whilst Joshua was winning acting awards, his boo wins a style award for looking stunning wearing an asymmetrical RM by Roland Mouret Hebe dress from the...
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MUCH: "JOSHUA JACKSON WINS GENIE AWARD" →
“I can’t believe I won something!” he said after accepting the award. His girlfriend, Diane Kruger, was there for support like he was for her when she was nominated for best supporting actress Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as Bridget von Hammersmark inInglorious Basterds.
"Polytechnique dominates Genies" →
Canadian filmmakers were lauded for their dark portrayals of true events at the 30th Genie Awards on Monday, as front-runner Polytechnique claimed most of the big wins while conjuring painful memories of the Montreal massacre.
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"Polytechnique sweeps Genie Awards" →
A film Canadians were afraid to see about a tragedy that still sears is the toast of the nation’s movie industry, winning nine prizes at the 30th annual Genie Awards.
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TONIGHT!
Join us!
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Webcast LIVE FROM THE RED CARPET
People are getting very excited about the 30th Annual Genie Awards on Monday! Since it would be unfair to make everyone wait until 9 pm ET to watch the IFC broadcast and CBC.CA webcast (especially given the frenzy over a few of our presenters), we’ve decided to webcast LIVE FROM THE RED CARPET on Monday beginning at 4:30 pm ET. Sign up at the link for an email reminder.
The...
"No need to dream of Genie": Jay Stone on female... →
Great article by Jay Stone on the differences between the US and Canadian film industries and how our system of funding can make it easier for women to make films here. In Hollywood, says Marie-Helene Causineau, nominated as co-director of the Inuit film Before Tomorrow, “women are mostly actresses: they’re objects of beauty rather than filmmakers.”
Definitely worth a read...
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Have a listen to the Genie Nominated song...
First Weekend Club Genies TalkBack 2010 - A Film... →
Join 30th Annual Genie Awards nominees Kari Skogland (Director of Fifty Dead Men Walking), Charles Officer (Director of Nurse.Fighter.Boy) and Brett Gaylor (Director of RIP: A Remix Manifesto). The panel will be moderated by the one and only Richard Crouse (Canada AM, NewsTalk 1010). More guests to be announced shortly!
If you’re at the panel and on twitter be sure to use #Genies in your...
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Only ONE WEEK to #Genies
One week until the Genie Awards! Keep your eyes here as we’ll be announcing some of the presenters at the Awards, highlighting a few of the categories, posting more interviews from nominees and taking a look at some of the fashions from previous Genie Awards.
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From Canwest: The Genie in the bottle: A glance at... →
Only 12 days until #Genies!
March 2010
38 posts
“I’ve found that Tumblr’s hard to explain to people who don’t do it. I think...”
– In which we talk to Mediabistro about Newsweek, and Tumblr. (via newsweek)
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Favourite Canadian Film Moments (3)
You only have a few more days to enter our “Walk the Red Carpet” contest!:
GOIN DOWN THE ROAD. Captured perfectly the Maritimers coming to the big city, with not always happy endings.
The Acid scene in HARD CORE LOGO.
I enjoyed seeing MY AMERICAN COUSIN which won a Genie Award as it portrayed a Canadian Girl who had a very boring life and how that all changed when her cousin...
Join us for our LIVE webcast from the Toronto... →
The webcast is over but we’ll be posting clips over the next few days. Watch for them here!
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Favourite Canadian Film Moments (2)
Here are a few selections from the entries we’ve received in our “Walk the Red Carpet the Canada’s Hottest Stars” Contest:
ONE WEEK is a great movie showing compassion,desperation and true love. None of us really know how we will deal with fate,until we are put on survival mode
Paul Gross in PASSCHENDAELE. He is the perfect epitome of a brave Canadian soldier. It...
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Georgia Straight: Western Canadian Genie nominee... →
Adding a touch of Hollywood North glam to this year’s Genie Awards proceedings, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television honoured the nominees from Western Canada last night at an intimate reception at the chic Shangri-La Hotel in downtown Vancouver.
Live Stream update
Thanks to all those who joined us last night for our first live webcast! It was one of the first of its kind in Canada so if you took part you were watching history! If you missed it we’ll be posting an archive later today for you to check out. Watch for the link here and on our Facebook Page.
We’re getting ready for tomorrow’s Nominee Reception webcast from Toronto and by...
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JOIN US LIVE: webcast from our Vancouver Nominee... →
UPDATE We’ve wrapped up our Vancouver webcast but be sure to join us on Wednesday for our Toronto #Genies Nominee Reception: http://bit.ly/dpyC6D