The Canadian Television Fund announced today that amendments have been approved by its Members to By-law No. 8 to admit the Canadian Coalition for Cultural Expression as a member of the CTF.

Vancouver writer David Chariandy, whose book Soucouyant was nominated for a Governor General’s Award in Literature, and Toronto writer C.S. Richardson’s The End of Alphabet have been nominated for the $7,500 First Novel Award.

“This is a Canadian boy’s dream come true,” Myers said during a recent conference call to promote the film, in which he plays a self-help guru trying to lift the Leafs’ spirits so they can win their first Stanley Cup since 1967.

Kate Hudson makes her directorial debut with a star-studded flick … and she’s just one of many stars coming to Toronto for the 2008 Worldwide Short Film Festival.

A new study reports Canadian cinemas entertained more moviegoers and were much more profitable in 2006, taking the sting out of declines in 2004 and 2005.

OTTAWA - A new study reports Canadian cinemas entertained more moviegoers and were much more profitable in 2006. Statistics Canada says cinemas, including indoor theatres, drive-ins and film festivals, sold 102.9 million tickets in 2006, up 1.9 per cent from 101.0 million the year before.

OTTAWA - A new study reports Canadian cinemas entertained more moviegoers and were much more profitable in 2006.

It’s an antidote to summer blockbuster mania, for those who like a brief, bracing exposure to cinematic artiness. The Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival opens tonight at the Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor St. W.) with a 7 p.m. showing of six award-winning shorts from around the world.

The traffic cones are in bloom again. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but film crews are once again taking over our fair city, blocking off entire streets, disrupting local commerce, parking their trailers on the lawns, shining their big honkin’ Klieg lights in our faces…

When writer Ariel Dorfman talks about 9/11, his talking about Sept. 11, 1973 in Chile, when the armed forces overthrew President Salvador Allende. Dorfman’s personal story is the subject of a documentary which opens the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Friday.

ComingSoon.net talks once again with Canadian’s wild auteur Guy Maddin about his unconventional new travelogue My Winnipeg .

U.S. Sports Film Festival in Lake Placid Launches with Success in New York City. [PR.com - June 10, 2008]