Montreal
Fantasia Film Fest Reaches Tentative Deal With Union Workers
Following a one-day strike on July 11, the Syndicat des employé-es de l’événementiel-CSN, representing around 60 Fantasia Film Festival workers, reached a tentative deal late Friday night to avert additional labor disruption. The union revealed no details on the agreement in principle before union workers vote on the deal early next week. A formal ratification […]
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Hélène Tanguay, Canadian Animation Pioneer, Dies at 70
Hélène Tanguay, a longtime champion of Oscar-winning Canadian animation who worked at the National Film Board of Canada for 37 years, has died. She was 70. Tanguay died Jan. 7, according to the NFB, which did not specify a cause of death. Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis’ award-winning animated short, The Flying Sailor, now shortlisted for […]
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Amy Schumer, Maria Bamford, Jimmy Carr, Katherine Ryan Join Just for Laughs Comedy Festival Lineup
Just for Laughs has added to the star power of its 40th edition in July by booking Amy Schumer, Maria Bamford, Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan for the upcoming comedy festival in Montreal. As Schumer holds her first major tour post-pandemic, the Amy Schumer: Whore Tour will touch down at Just for Laughs on July […]
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Cinesite’s Digital Journey: From ‘Snow White’ to James Bond
Launched three decades ago as filmmaking was taking transformative steps away from celluloid and toward digital processes, Cinesite remains on course in creating digital visual effects and, more recently, feature animation. A lot has changed since Eastman Kodak founded Cinesite in Los Angeles in 1991 as a VFX, digital restoration and mastering subsidiary based around […]
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