2016 Writers Guild Awards Screenplay Nominations Announced

The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting during 2015. Winners will be honored at the 2016 Writers Guild Awards on Saturday, February 13, 2016, at concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York City.

Feature films eligible for a Writers Guild Award were exhibited theatrically for at least one week in Los Angeles during 2015 and were written under the WGA’s Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA) or under a bona fide collective bargaining agreement of the Writers Guild of Canada, Writers Guild of Great Britain, Irish Playwrights & Screenwriters Guild, or the New Zealand Writers Guild. Theatrical screenplays produced under the jurisdiction of the WGA or an affiliate Guild must have been submitted for Writers Guild Awards consideration.

Documentaries eligible for a Writers Guild Award featured an onscreen writing credit and were exhibited theatrically in Los Angeles or New York for one week during 2015. Theatrical documentaries must have been produced under the jurisdiction of the WGA or an affiliate Guild to be eligible for awards consideration.

2015 SiriusXM Indie Awards – nominees announced

AWARDS TO BE HANDED OUT MAY 9TH AT THE GRAND BALLROOM, SHERATON CENTRE IN TORONTO

Canadian Music Week is proud to announce the nominees for the 2015 SiriusXM Indies - 15th Annual Independent Music Awards. ALVVAYS, Caribou, Mac DeMarco and Death From Above 1979 are among the nominated artists being honoured across 26 categories on Saturday May 9th, 2015 at the Grand Ballroom in the Sheraton Centre (123 Queen St. West, Toronto). Full list of nominees is below.

Celebrating another year of top independent talent - both Canadian and International - the award show will feature special performances from nominated artists, including The Glorious Sons, Alvvays, Broncho, and Miracles. Multi-platinum selling rock act Billy Talent will be headlining the SiriusXM Indies with an exclusive concert performance.

18th annual Canadian Radio Music Awards – nominees announced

Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce nominations for the 18th annual Canadian Radio Music Awards! Kiesza, MAGIC! and Hedley, are among those honoured. This year’s award show will take place on Friday, May 8th at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. Sponsored by Bell Media, the Canadian Radio Music Awards celebrate first-time charted artists and honour individuals or groups with some of the most played songs on Canadian radio.

This year’s show will feature performances by MAGIC!, Kiesza, Dear Rouge, Andee, Virginia to Vegas and Jess Moskaluke. Full list of nominees below.

The Canadian Radio Music Awards offer an opportunity to honour national and international artists who have gained significant traction on the radio over the past year. Radio has long served as a significant platform for artists to break through and gain mass appeal. This year’s nominees fittingly reflect the power of a songs ability to connect with the public and push artists to the next level.

2014 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival announces complete programming

This morning, the complete 15th Anniversary imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival programme was announced at the TIFF Bell Lightbox by Executive Director Jason Ryle, and guests including TIFF's Cameron Bailey and actor Glen Gould.

The 15th Annual imagineNATIVE returns October 22-26, 2014 with the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous works from around the globe featuring: 130 films and videos; nine Radio Works; seven multi-platform New Media works; four art exhibitions featuring 19 media artists; 11 industry panels and public workshops; and 17 commissions. imagineNATIVE will feature 175 artists representing over 70 distinct Indigenous nations from 12 countries.

imagineNATIVE Announces Feature Films & Documentaries and The Witching Hour Program

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, with presenting sponsor Bell Media, announces the return of The Witching Hour: Late Night Shorts Program and the Festival’s feature length films and documentaries. Opening night of the festival will be, People’s Choice Award-winner at TIFF’s Midnight Madness, What We Do In The Shadows, on Wednesday, October 22 at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema with director, Taika Waititi in attendance.

The 15th anniversary of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival will present feature length films from October 22-26, 2014 such as Black Panther Woman, about Marlene Cummins, an Indigenous teen full of political conviction, becoming a member Brisbane’s chapter of the Black Panthers, one of many in Australia in the early 1970s. As part of the Australia Spotlight, on Sunday, October 26, this powerful film will reveal how many Indigenous women paid a hefty price for their loyalty to a cause they thought was about equality for all.

Thursday, October 23 holds the World Premiere of The Lodge, a stunning stop-motion animation adopting equal parts Goldilocks and the traditional Anishnaabe legend of the Dandelion. The Lodge challenges colonial concepts of savagery, critiques the de-humanizing of Indigenous peoples and explores the powerful medicine of our animal relations. Later that night, the deadliness of Russian winters reaches psychologically destructive new ground in the International Premiere of A White Day by director Michail Lukachevskyi of the Yakut Republic.

Call for submissions: imagineNATIVE 2014

Be part of imagineNATIVE’s 15th Anniversary Year!

Be a part of 15 ground-breaking years showcasing the rise of the Indigenous media arts movement! It’s time to submit your film, video, radio and new media works for the 15th anniversary imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. This year’s Festival runs from October 22-26, 2014 in Toronto, Canada.

imagineNATIVE is an international Festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media. Each fall, the Festival presents a selection of the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous works from Canada and around the globe. The works accepted reflect the diversity of the world's Indigenous nations and illustrate the vitality and excellence of our art and culture in contemporary media. Last year, imagineNATIVE presented 127 works, and had 70+ artists and 15,558 people in attendance at the Festival.

2013 Canadian Radio Music Awards – winners

The 16th annual Canadian Radio Music Awards (CRMAs) were held last night at Kool Haus in Toronto.

The evening's top winners were Carly Rae Jepsen and Marianas Trench. Jepsen won two awards, taking the Sennheiser Chart Topper Award and also claiming the SOCAN song of the year for her blockbuster hit Call Me Maybe, co-written by Tavish Crowe and Marianas Trench's frontman Josh Ramsay.

Ramsay's Marianas Trench was also named winner of the Fan's Choice Award. No one else picked up more than one award at the event.

2013 Writers Guild Awards – winners

The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) hosted simultaneous ceremonies tonight in New York at the B.B. King Blues Club and in Los Angeles at the JW Marriott L.A. for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards. Nathan Fillion hosted the event.

The top winners tonight were the political thrillers. Zero Dark Thirty by Mark Boal about the hunt for Osama bin Laden won Best Original Screenplay. Chris Terrio's story about hostages escaping from Iran Argo won for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Malik Bendejelloul's Searching for Sugar Man won for Documentary writing. The film is about a little-known American musician who became an iconic figure in apartheid-era South Africa.

2013 Canadian Radio Music Awards (CRMAs) – nominations

Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce nominations for the 16^th annual Canadian Radio Music Awards (CRMAs). Sponsored by Astral Radio, the awards, celebrating first-time charted artists and honouring individuals or groups among them with some of the most played songs at Canadian radio, will be handed out on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, doors 7 p.m. at Kool Haus in Toronto.

This year, for the first time, the show will be open to the public and will serve as the official kick-off event to Canadian Music Week 2013 activities. Winners will be announced throughout the show, highlighted by performances from nominees Anjulie, Dallas Smith, Elise Legrow, Jesse Labelle, Monster Truck, Shawn Hook, USS and Victoria Duffield. Massari, who’s latest single “Brand New Day” was just certified gold, will also perform. Fans’ Choice nominees Marianas Trench, who recently completed their first cross-Canada arena tour, will headline the awards with a special guest performance before embarking on the second leg of that tour, running March 23^rd – April 19^th.

2013 Writers Guild Awards – nominations

LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK -- The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during 2012.

Feature films eligible for a Writers Guild Award were exhibited theatrically for at least one week in Los Angeles during 2012 and were written under the WGA’s Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA) or under a bona fide collective bargaining agreement of the Writers Guild of Canada, Writers Guild of Great Britain, Irish Playwrights & Screenwriters Guild, or the New Zealand Writers Guild. Theatrical screenplays produced under the jurisdiction of the WGA or an affiliate Guild must have been submitted for WGA awards consideration.

2012 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain awards – winners

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain presented the winners for the 2012 Writers’ Guild Awards tonight at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill. The ceremony was hosted by comedy writers Jane Bussmann and David Quantick.

The award for Best Screenplay was presented by Academy Award-winner David Seidler to Lynne Ramsay and Rory Stewart Kinnear for We Need to Talk About Kevin. It won against Paddy Considine for Tyrannosaur and Paul Laverty for Even the Rain. Danny King and Dexter Fletcher won Best First Feature Film for Wild Bill.

2012 ZeBBie Awards – winners

The Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild recently held their 5th annual ZeBBie Awards at the Sugar Club, Dublin to honour the year's best scripts by Irish writers in various formats. The awards are named in honour of actor/writer O. Z. Whitehead who was nicknamed "Zebby."

Juanita Wilson took the Best Feature Film Script prize with her Bosnian war story As If I Am Not There, besting Ciarán Creagh for his script Parked and Terry McMahon's Charlie Casanova. Wilson's debut film, it recently won for Best Film, Director and Screenplay at the 8th annual Irish Film and Television Awards. It was Ireland's submission to the Academy for the Best Foreign Language Film consideration.

The Best Short Film Script went to Claire Dix for Downpour. The film is a celebration of Irish rain, as a bride-to-be recollects how key relationship moments that took place in a shower or downpour.

2012 Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art, May 1–31

11th annual DEEP WIRELESS Festival of Radio & Transmission Art
@ Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street, Toronto
May 1 - 31, 2012

Deep Wireless is a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art including performances, installations, radio broadcasts of commissioned works on CBC radio's Living Out Loud and the TransX Transmission Art Symposium. Featured artists: Christof Migone, Galen Joseph-Hunter, Kristen Roos, James Partaik, LeBlanc/Fahner/Moignard, Magz Hall, Victoria Fenner, Tetsuo Kogawa, Aynsley Moorehouse, Peter Courtemanche, Dominique Ferraton, Hector Centeno, Chris Myhr, Jennifer Cherniack, Amos Latteier, Gintas Telelis and many more.

2012 Writers Guild Awards - winners

Sunday night, the Writers Guild of America held simultaneous ceremonies for their 64th Annual Writers Guild Awards at both the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles and at the B.B. King Blues Club in New York.

Woody Allen won the Original Screenplay award for Midnight in Paris against four other comedy scripts, Will Reiser's 50/50, Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig's Bridesmaids Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni's Win Win, and Diablo Cody's Young Adult. Ineligible screenplays, however, included the awards-season frontrunner The Artist. This was Woody Allen's 20th WGA nomination and his fifth win.

For Adapted Screenplay, the winner was The Descendants by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash. It emerged victorious against The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steven Zaillian, The Help by Tate Taylor, Hugo by John Logan, and Moneyball by Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin. This caps a very successful weekend for The Descendants in which also won the Scripter Award and at the ACE Eddie Awards.

2011 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Oct 19-23

Today is the opening of the 12th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival which celebrates aboriginal and indigenous peoples. After a welcome gathering that takes place at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, the opening screening takes place at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. The gala screening will be the Canadian premiere of Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s On The Ice, winner of the Best First Feature Prize at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival.

Other highlights include Shirley Adams by Oliver Hermanus, the world premiere of Mesnak which is based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, an Australian musical Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi which stars Geoffrey Rush, and Dylan Valley's The Uprising of Hangberg about the recent forced displacement of residents in a Cape Town suburb. The international spotlight for this year is South Africa.

The closing night film will be Wapos Bay: Long Goodbyes by Dennis and Melanie Jackson.

2011 Canadian Comedy Awards - winners

The 12th annual Canadian Comedy Awards took place tonight at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto as part of the Canadian Comedy Awards & Festival.

The prize for Best Film as voted by the public was Jacob Medjuck's Summerhood. Medjuck also won for Best Direction, Film. The other double-winner in film was Jacob Tierney's Good Neighbours. It won for Best Writing (Tierney) and Best Actor, Film (Jay Baruchel). Peepers had led with five nominations but was shut out.

In television, the only multiple winner was Less Than Kind. It won for Best Direction, Television Program or Series (James Dunnison), and Television Performance, Female (Brooke Palsson). The public's choice for Best TV Show was This Movie Sucks!

The Stand-Up awards for male and female went to Steve Patterson and Debra DiGiovanni respectively. Eric Andrews claimed the Stand-Up Newcomer award.

Call for submissions: 1st Annual imagineNATIVE Radio Art Commission

1st Annual imagineNATIVE Radio Art Commission

APPLY NOW!
1st Annual imagineNATIVE Radio Art Commission
Application Deadline: Friday, June 24th by 5pm

imagineNATIVE is seeking proposals from Canadian Indigenous artists for its inaugural Radio Art Commission. The selected artist will produce a short radio/sound art piece to premiere at the 12th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (October 19-23, 2011) in Toronto.

“Radio has been a facet of imagineNATIVE’s programming since its inception,” said Jason Ryle, Executive Director. “With this project we want to revitalise the role of radio in the Festival and encourage Indigenous artists to view radio as a vital and dynamic medium for their creative expression. We want to push the boundaries of what’s possible to create ‘art you can hear’.”

12th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards - nominations

The Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence has announced the nominations for the 12th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards, also known as "The Beavers." The Beavers are given in recognition of comedic excellence in the categories of Live Shows, Film, Television, Radio and Internet categories.

The nominees in film are led by Seth W. Owen's Peepers with 5 nominations. It's nominations were for Best Film, Director, Actor (Jacob Medjuck), Actress (Janine Theriault) and Writer (Seth W. Owen, Mark Slutsky, Daniel Perlmutter).

It was followed by four nominations each for Jacob Tierney's Good Neighbours and Jacob Medjuck's Summerhood including Best Film. The other Best Film nominees were Gravy Train and Don't Walk Out That Door.

The television section was led by Call Me Fitz and Less Than Kind, with each receiving three nominations. CBC’s The Debaters received two nominations for television and another two for radio.

10th DEEP WIRELESS festival of Radio & Transmission Art, April 30-May 31

The 10th DEEP WIRELESS festival of Radio & Transmission Art has begun in Toronto at the Artscape Wychwood Barns and other locations.

Deeo Wireless is a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art including performances, installations, radio broadcasts of commissioned works on CBC radio's Living Out Loud and the Radio Without Boundaries Conference. Featured artists: Colin Black (co-presented in part with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Hank Bull, Gregory Whitehead, Dipna Horra, Darsha Hewitt, Victoria Fenner, Mieke Anderson, Julia Krolik and Owen Fernley, Carma Jolly, Sarah Boothroyd, Christopher Stantin, Erin Gee, Jocelyn Robert, Peter Courtemanche, Mitchell Akiyama and many more.

The festival runs concurrently with the ninth annual Radio Without Boundaries conference. The 2011 line-up of international radio art luminaries includes Jonathan Goldstein (CBC Radio’s Wiretap), Colin Black (Frequency Oz, Australia), Nora Young (CBC Radio’s Spark), Matt Smith (Can), Hank Bull (Can), Roman Mars (REMIX Radio from PRX, USA), Gregory Whitehead (USA), Darsha Hewitt (Can), Shea Shackelford (USA), Peter Courtemanche (Can) plus many more.

2011 Gracie Awards for women in media - winners

The Alliance for Women in Media has announced the winners of the 36th Annual Grace Awards, given each year to outstanding women in the broadcast industry. The awards are named in honour of radio and television star Gracie Allen, of the famed comedy act Burns and Allen with her husband George Burns.

Winners include actress Claire Danes for her role in Temple Grandin, as well as Betty White for Hot in Cleveland, Piper Perabo for Covert Affairs, and Rosie Perez for In Plain Sight.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) won a number of prizes. CBC Radio One won for Outstanding Talk Show-News with the program The Current: Egg Freezing/Older Parents. CBC Television won for Outstanding Documentary (Africa on the Move: A Woman's World), Outstanding Investigative Program or Feature (The Fifth Estate: Behind the Wall), Outstanding Talk Show - Entertainment/Information (The Mean Girl), and Outstanding Host-News/Non-Fiction (Alison Smith).