Here’s the latest news and updates from CFC alumni this November.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
DCG Awards 2022
The Directors Guild of Canada received over 450 submissions this year for the 2022 DGC Awards. The winners, which were announced on November 6, 2022, includes the following alumni – we love to see it!
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series
Charles Officer – The Porter, Episode 101, “Episode 1”
- Best Picture Editing – Movies For Television and Mini-Series
Maureen Grant – Stolen by Their Father
- Best Picture Editing – Comedy Or Family Series
Lee Walker – Astrid and Lilly Save the World, Episode 105, “A-Borg”
- Best Sound Editing – Dramatic Series
David McCallum – The Porter, Episode 108, “Episode 8”
See the full list of winners here.
David Miller Legacy Award
The Whistler Film Festival Society announced the inaugural David Miller Legacy Award recipients. The honourees are current WFF22 Producers Lab participants and will each receive a $500 bursary. Recipients include Norman Jewison Film Program alum Kent Donguines, Christina Saliba and Shelley Thompson.
Read more here.
Windsor Film Festival Awards
Women Talking, directed by Sarah Polley, took home The 2022 Liuna People’s Choice at the Windsor Film Festival. Women Talking follows the story of a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a string of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men. The film stars Actors Conservatory alumna Michelle McLeod, with editing by alum Roslyn Kalloo.
Vancouver International Film Festival Awards
Vancouver International Film Festival announced nine audience award winners, including Marie Clements’ documentary Lay Down Your Heart, produced by alum Shirley Vercruysse. Lay Down Your Heart is a touching tribute to Niall McNeil, a multi-talented artist in theatre and various other mediums, who happens to be a person living with Down Syndrome.
Learn more here.
Indiescreen Awards
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) revealed the nominees for the Established Producer and the Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer awards at the Playback Film Summit on November 15, 2022. The winners will be announced at the Whistler Film Festival on December 2nd. See below for alumni nominees.
Established Producer Award
- Conquering Lion Pictures’ Damon D’Oliveira (for Clement Virgo’s drama Brother)
Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award
- Fae Pictures’ Shant Joshi (for Chase Joynt’s documentary Framing Agnes)
- Babe Nation Films’ Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott (for Mary Nighy’s thriller Alice, Darling)
- Push Pictures’ Alexandra Roberts and Danny Sedore (for Joseph Amenta’s coming-of-age drama Soft)
See the full list of nominees here.
FESTIVALS
Regent Park Film Festival
December 7-10, 2022
Regent Park Film Festival returns this December to celebrate its 20th Anniversary with an exciting new program featuring alumni films Brother, directed and produced by alum Clement Virgo and Fresh Meat, directed by current Norman Jewison Film Program resident Lu Asfaha.
See festival programming here.
INDUSTRY NEWS & UPDATES
- Sandra Oh is reuniting with award-winning Canadian director and alum Ann Marie Fleming on the sci-fi thriller Can I Get a Witness
- 2023 Screencraft TV Pilot Script Competition Quarterfinalists includes Goddess and The Bluebirds – co-written and executive produced by current Norman Jewison Film Program resident Amy Trefry
- Sarah Polley’s Journey from Child Star to Feminist Auteur
- In Brief: WIDC selects participants for Story & Leadership program including Supinder Wraich
- Meet CFC alum Chandler Levack and the rest of Variety’s 10 Canadians to Watch Set to be Honored at the Whistler Film Festival
- Sarah Polley to receive director prize at Palm Springs International Film Awards
- Scarborough playwright Kanika Ambrose shines a light on immigration and motherhood
- IPF taps nine series for short-form production funding, including Degrees of Separation, from alumni Shant Joshi, Abdul Malik and Lindsay Blair Goeldner
- Union-Organizing Drama Salt in the Works at Marblemedia, created by Abdul Malik, and co-produced by alumni production company Fae Pictures
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