Alberta Filmmakers Top 5 Finalists for CineCoup Film Accelerator $1 Million...
Only one Alberta team remains in the Top 5 of the CineCoup Film Accelerator! The Edmonton filmmakers behind High School Brawl – Aaron Kurmey, Ryan Hatt, Kevin Johnson – will pitch their feature to a...
View ArticleRed Deer Filmmaker Wins Big Rock Eddie Short Film Award and $10,000 for...
An Alberta Farm, a short documentary by Red Deer’s Brendan O’Brien, won the $10,000 top prize at the Big Rock Eddies Short Film Festival at the Theatre Junction Grand in Calgary on June 6. This year...
View ArticleEdmonton Filmmaker Gil Cardinal to Receive the Dave Billington Award on...
The David Billington Award is presented by each year by the Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA) to an individual who has made an invaluable contribution to Alberta’s production...
View ArticleBanff Mountain Film Festival World Tour | Alberta Dates
The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is on the road, visiting over 40 countries around the world – bringing some of the favourite films from the Festival to a location near you! It’s time to get...
View ArticleBreakfast Television Calgary Serves News, Sports, Health, Tech and Weather...
Breakfast Television (BT) is the branding used for morning shows broadcast by stations of Rogers Media’s television network City. As of May 2015, versions of Breakfast Television are broadcast in...
View ArticleSeven Edmonton Filmmakers Awarded $10,000 Grants to Make Short Digital Films
Storyhive, a Telus a funding program, is financing 15 finalists from across Alberta. Finalists will distribute their final product on TELUS Optik TV, before turning to the community for online votes...
View ArticleEdmonton International Airport Subject of Reality TV Program for Next Three...
A Toronto-based film crew will be at the Edmonton International airport for the next three months working on a series called Ultimate Airport, Edmonton. They plan to show the inner workings of the...
View ArticleEdmonton Film Prize Nominates Six Finalists with Winner to be Announced on...
Six finalists are in the running for the Edmonton Film Prize. AMPIA received 28 entries including a mix of feature length dramatic films, documentaries, web series, short films and experimental...
View ArticleThe Revenant: The Most Oscar-Nominated Movie Crewed by Albertans and Shot in...
The Revenant’s 12 Oscar nominations will help make the epic survival tale a lasting calling card for Alberta’s talented crews and stunning scenery, says Calgary’s film commissioner in an interview with...
View ArticleAlberta Nominees for the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards Announced on January 19,...
Today the nominees for the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards were announced including these from Alberta: Blackstone produced by Edmonton’s Prairie Dog Film & Television nominated for Best Dramatic...
View ArticleRosie Dransfeld: Searching for the Truth Behind the Curtain with a Camera and...
Edmonton-based Gemini Award winning producer, director and writer Rosvita Dransfeld produces character-driven, cinema vérité feature documentaries. In a body of work that includes more than 300 short...
View ArticleShaw Communication Brings Comcast X1 Technology to Canada with FreeRange TV
On January 6, 2016, Shaw Communications released FreeRange TV, a product that simplifies the subscription-TV experience for consumers using U.S. media giant Comcast’s X1 platform technology. Comcast’s...
View ArticleEdmonton Film Shot in 3D Wins International Tech Award
Producer Andrew Scholotiuk and director Dylan Pearce have won a Lumiere Award from the Advanced Imaging Society for their 3D work in the romantic comedy 40 Below and Falling. Scholotiuk and Pearce...
View ArticleEdmonton International Film Festival to Screen Live Action & Animation Oscar...
When’s the last time you watched all of the OSCAR® nominated films in any category? And the short film nominees? We hope your answer is ‘Well, actually, it was just last year. When the good folks at...
View ArticleWorld Premiere of “Wolverine: Ghost of the Northern Forest” by Alberta...
Wolverine: Ghost of the Northern Forest recounts the fascinating story of Emmy Award winning Alberta wildlife filmmaker Andrew Manske’s relentless, five-year quest to find and film one of the most...
View ArticleHistoric Alberta Election Featured in Documentary to be Screened at Metro...
“Day of Change” by Edmonton filmmaker Kelly Wolfert is a look at the events taking place in Alberta’s provincial election May 5th, 2015. Following candidates new to politics, veteran politicians,...
View ArticleNORTHWESTFEST, Western Canada’s Premiere Non-Fiction Film & Arts Festival...
Formerly known as the Global Visions Festival, Canada’s longest-running non-fiction film festival is evolving in a big way! Now rebranded as the NORTHWESTFEST, it runs from May 5 to 10, 2016 at the...
View ArticleAMPIA Celebrates Excellence in Alberta Film & Television Production &...
The 42nd Alberta Film & Television Awards were held at the Hyatt Regency in Calgary on May 7. Over 650 guests attended The Rosies Gala to honour the very best of Alberta’s production in the screen...
View ArticleCalgary Film Centre and Its Three State-of-the-Art Film Stages Opens its...
The general manger of the new Calgary Film Centre says six Hollywood film and TV projects are now eyeing Calgary as a location, thanks in part to the new state-of-the-art facility that officially...
View ArticleEdmonton’s Mosiac Entertainment Wraps Principal Photography on #Roxy, a New...
Edmonton-based Mosaic Entertainment just wrapped principal photography on a new feature film titled #Roxy. Shot in Edmonton and St. Albert, #Roxy, a teenage romantic-comedy, is a modern retelling of...
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