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Category Archives: CFC

My Day in the Media

Friday, February 26, 2010

It seems to be my media coverage day because Google alerts turned up two quotes for me this morning.
I’m quoted in a Hollywood Reporter article on the Canadian Film Centre talking about the NBC Universal MultiPlatform Matchmaking Program:
NBC Universal, which, like rival U.S. networks, has looked abroad for content, is also backing the CFC’s multiplatform […]

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Links from Utopia

Thursday, December 10, 2009

I’m lucky enough to be attending my third Crossover lab with Frank Boyd which can best be described as creative heaven.
This one, like the first I attended in March is presented by the Canadian Film Centre under the title NBC Universal Multimedia Matchmaking Program.  These sessions are incredible weeklong creative events that bring together people […]

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Old Media Meets the New Frontier

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

I got very excited reading the transcript of Liesl Copland’s keynote speech to Sunday’s Doc Conference at the Toronto International Film Festival.  Copland is an executive at William Morris Endeavor’s Global Finance & Distribution Group and a former Netflix employee.  Her speech was — on the surface — about the future of the specialty film […]

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Critic-Cal

Friday, June 5, 2009

The Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival runs June 16 to 21 in Toronto with screenings at the ROM, Cumberland and at the Bloor Cinema.  The CFC has created some web videos to promote the event.  Critic-Cal — the critic with the short attention span — has a YouTube channel and his song is […]

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Training Time

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

I’m a big fan of the Canadian Film Centre.  It’s a great training ground for film, tv and new media professionals.  When writers just starting out ask me about a career path, I almost always suggest some training at the CFC.
As a resident in the Prime Time Television Program, you’ll write a helluva lot, get […]

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Laughed Out

Saturday, July 19, 2008

by Mike McPhaden
Believe it or not, the Just Comedy conference has been more than just seminars on multiplatforming your mobisodic laughter assets, or brandifying your demographic improv monetizers. No, there’s been plenty of good old-fashioned entertainment, too:
Writer/comedian Andy Kindler gave a “State of the Industry” rant that had the room laughing and squirming all […]

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