- U.K. short wins NFB online contest
- A 4:25 short film about a former stuntman trying to find his way in the world has nabbed the NFB Online Short Film Contest.
- Copyright bill may spark battle over who owns what
- With new copyright legislation set to hit the House of Commons, possibly next week, a fresh round of controversy over digital rights management, copying and property rights is starting to heat up.
- Playback axes print edition, goes online only
- Canada's film and television trade paper, Playback, is being scaled back to an online version after a round of cuts by Brunico Communications.
- Aboriginal director's portrait wins art prize
- A large-scale portrait of Aboriginal writer and filmmaker Warwick Thornton is the people's choice pick for Australia's Archibald Prize for portraiture.
- Iranian director on hunger strike
- Award-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi has started a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment in Iran.
- Lions Gate to boost Asian projects
- Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. plans to make at least five Asian-language films budgeted at $3 million US to $5 million US each in the next two years with Singapore's Media Development Authority.
- Alberta film, TV production faces decline
- Alberta may have been the setting of celebrated movies like Unforgiven and Brokeback Mountain, but its film and TV industry is failing to attract similar big budget movie productions and is in danger of collapse, according to the production community.
- Obama childhood focus of Indonesian film
- An Indonesian filmmaker says that his upcoming movie about the childhood of U.S. President Barack Obama will portray how the diversity of Jakarta influenced the future president.
- Scorsese does George Harrison doc
- Martin Scorsese's feature-length documentary on the late George Harrison will be released next year with plenty of unseen footage and unheard songs.
- Quebecer's 2nd film impresses at Cannes
- Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan has had a successful return to Cannes with his second feature, Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats).
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