Today, the Canadian Academy revealed the nominees for the 25th Gemini Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Emmy Awards. So without further ado, let's reveal those who have graced our land of television in fall 2009 and winter 2010.
1. Best Animated Program or Series:
* Glenn Martin, Dds
* Guess With Jess
* Johnny Test
* Kid Vs Kat
* Wapos Bay
2. Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series:
* Degrassi: The Next Generation
* Overruled!
* Pillars of Freedom
* That's So Weird!
* Total Drama Action
3. Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series:
* A World of Wonders
* Canada's Super Speller
* Survive This
* Tvokids: Mark's Moments
4. Best Comedy Program or Series:
* Dan for Mayor
* Less Than Kind
* Little Mosque on the Prairie
* Pure Pwnage
* The Rick Mercer Report
5. Best Dramatic Miniseries:
* Alice
* The Phantom
* The Summit
6. Best Dramatic Series:
* Durham County
* Flashpoint
* Republic of Doyle
* Stargate Universe
* The Tudors
7. Best Music, Variety Program or Series
* 2009 Much Music Video Awards...
1. Best Animated Program or Series:
* Glenn Martin, Dds
* Guess With Jess
* Johnny Test
* Kid Vs Kat
* Wapos Bay
2. Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series:
* Degrassi: The Next Generation
* Overruled!
* Pillars of Freedom
* That's So Weird!
* Total Drama Action
3. Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series:
* A World of Wonders
* Canada's Super Speller
* Survive This
* Tvokids: Mark's Moments
4. Best Comedy Program or Series:
* Dan for Mayor
* Less Than Kind
* Little Mosque on the Prairie
* Pure Pwnage
* The Rick Mercer Report
5. Best Dramatic Miniseries:
* Alice
* The Phantom
* The Summit
6. Best Dramatic Series:
* Durham County
* Flashpoint
* Republic of Doyle
* Stargate Universe
* The Tudors
7. Best Music, Variety Program or Series
* 2009 Much Music Video Awards...
- 9/1/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Finally, some Gemini Awards love for the Canadian Muslim comedy "Little Mosque on the Prairie."
After being shut out of the industry kudosfest since 2007, the WestWind Pictures-produced chuckler for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. snagged a best comedy nod Tuesday as the Geminis, Canada's TV awards, unveiled nominations in Toronto.
And two "Little Mosque" directors, Jim Allodi and Michael Kennedy, also made the Geminis cut by being nominated in the best comedy direction category.
"Little Mosque on the Prairie," a comedy about fish-out-of-water Muslims in rural Canada in a post 9-11 world, received international attention when it bowed on the CBC in 2007.
The series was also credited with reversing a rating slide for Canada's public broadcaster.
WestWind Pictures also unveiled a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in 2008 to create an Americanized version of the Canuck comedy.
The CTV/CBS cop drama "Flashpoint" will lead all comers with 15 nominations going into the November industry kudosfest,...
After being shut out of the industry kudosfest since 2007, the WestWind Pictures-produced chuckler for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. snagged a best comedy nod Tuesday as the Geminis, Canada's TV awards, unveiled nominations in Toronto.
And two "Little Mosque" directors, Jim Allodi and Michael Kennedy, also made the Geminis cut by being nominated in the best comedy direction category.
"Little Mosque on the Prairie," a comedy about fish-out-of-water Muslims in rural Canada in a post 9-11 world, received international attention when it bowed on the CBC in 2007.
The series was also credited with reversing a rating slide for Canada's public broadcaster.
WestWind Pictures also unveiled a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in 2008 to create an Americanized version of the Canuck comedy.
The CTV/CBS cop drama "Flashpoint" will lead all comers with 15 nominations going into the November industry kudosfest,...
- 8/31/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screened at the Berlin International Film Festival
BERLIN -- "Snow Cake" tries to wring intimate drama and sweet epiphanies from a collection of oddball characters, peculiar circumstances and doubtful coincidences in a middle-of-nowhere Canadian town. The mental and physical landscape would do justice to an Atom Egoyan film, but in this film, written by Angela Pell and directed by Marc Evans, the key dramatic moments feel as forced as they are predictable.
This low-key Canadian-British production, the opening-night selection for the Berlin International Film Festival, has a chance at art house exposure with its cast of Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Carrie-Anne Moss, but theatrical opportunities will be limited.
Mostly, Pell presents characters out of sync with their lives, uncomfortable in their bodies and overly protective of their emotions. There is one live wire, but she must die early for these people to connect at all.
Young and over-caffeinated Vivienne (Emily Hampshire) is the sacrificial lamb in this fiction, a gregarious and talkative hitchhiker who is grudgingly picked up by the sour-faced and incommunicative Alex (Rickman), whose entire body sags under the weight of the baggage of his past.
As the two near her destination, a terrible car accident claims her life but leaves Alex with barely a scratch. Overwhelmed with remorse and guilt, even though the accident was not his fault, Alex seeks out Vivienne's mother, Linda (Weaver), who scarcely reacts to her daughter's death. This, he soon learns, is due to her autism. Only it's the kind of literary autism that allows her to make sagacious observations and funny remarks.
Linda does persuade Alex To stay the night, which turns into several more nights. It's enough time for Alex To begin an unlikely affair with beautiful neighbor Maggie (Moss), who is no more out of place in this environment than a three-star restaurant. And, wouldn't you know it, Maggie, too, has a past.
Everyone's past, none of which is nearly as interesting as the filmmakers seem to believe, gets chewed over in the coming days. Then there's a local cop (James Allodi), smitten with unrequited affection for Maggie, lurking ominously in the background, jealously festering over her swift embrace of this lonely drifter. It's a plot line without a payoff.
Performances here feel like performances. Rickman and Weaver have so carefully thought through their roles in such minute physical details that nothing feels spontaneous. By contrast, Moss is warm and natural, but her urban character is so underwritten and alarmingly out of place in this small town that all Maggie can do is act as a catalyst for other people's healing.
Cinematographer Steve Cosens often keeps the camera close as if the world were hemming in these characters. He and designer Matthew Davies make the dusty, snowy town feel as desolate as their lives while Canadian rock band Broken Social Scene supplies a restless musical accompaniment.
SNOW CAKE
Revolution Films/Rhombus Media
Credits:
Director: Marc Evans
Screenwriter: Angela Pell
Producers: Gina Carter, Jessica Daniel, Andrew Eaton, Niv Fichman
Executive producers: Robert Jones, Henry Normal, Michael Winterbottom, David M. Thompson, Steve Coogan
Director of photography: Steve Cosens
Production designer: Matthew Davies
Music: Broken Social Scene
Costume designer: Debra Hanson
Editor: Marguerite Arnold
Cast:
Alex Hughes: Alan Rickman
Linda Freeman: Sigourney Weaver
Maggie: Carrie-Anne Moss
Vivienne: Emily Hampshire
Clyde: James Allodi
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 112 minutes...
BERLIN -- "Snow Cake" tries to wring intimate drama and sweet epiphanies from a collection of oddball characters, peculiar circumstances and doubtful coincidences in a middle-of-nowhere Canadian town. The mental and physical landscape would do justice to an Atom Egoyan film, but in this film, written by Angela Pell and directed by Marc Evans, the key dramatic moments feel as forced as they are predictable.
This low-key Canadian-British production, the opening-night selection for the Berlin International Film Festival, has a chance at art house exposure with its cast of Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Carrie-Anne Moss, but theatrical opportunities will be limited.
Mostly, Pell presents characters out of sync with their lives, uncomfortable in their bodies and overly protective of their emotions. There is one live wire, but she must die early for these people to connect at all.
Young and over-caffeinated Vivienne (Emily Hampshire) is the sacrificial lamb in this fiction, a gregarious and talkative hitchhiker who is grudgingly picked up by the sour-faced and incommunicative Alex (Rickman), whose entire body sags under the weight of the baggage of his past.
As the two near her destination, a terrible car accident claims her life but leaves Alex with barely a scratch. Overwhelmed with remorse and guilt, even though the accident was not his fault, Alex seeks out Vivienne's mother, Linda (Weaver), who scarcely reacts to her daughter's death. This, he soon learns, is due to her autism. Only it's the kind of literary autism that allows her to make sagacious observations and funny remarks.
Linda does persuade Alex To stay the night, which turns into several more nights. It's enough time for Alex To begin an unlikely affair with beautiful neighbor Maggie (Moss), who is no more out of place in this environment than a three-star restaurant. And, wouldn't you know it, Maggie, too, has a past.
Everyone's past, none of which is nearly as interesting as the filmmakers seem to believe, gets chewed over in the coming days. Then there's a local cop (James Allodi), smitten with unrequited affection for Maggie, lurking ominously in the background, jealously festering over her swift embrace of this lonely drifter. It's a plot line without a payoff.
Performances here feel like performances. Rickman and Weaver have so carefully thought through their roles in such minute physical details that nothing feels spontaneous. By contrast, Moss is warm and natural, but her urban character is so underwritten and alarmingly out of place in this small town that all Maggie can do is act as a catalyst for other people's healing.
Cinematographer Steve Cosens often keeps the camera close as if the world were hemming in these characters. He and designer Matthew Davies make the dusty, snowy town feel as desolate as their lives while Canadian rock band Broken Social Scene supplies a restless musical accompaniment.
SNOW CAKE
Revolution Films/Rhombus Media
Credits:
Director: Marc Evans
Screenwriter: Angela Pell
Producers: Gina Carter, Jessica Daniel, Andrew Eaton, Niv Fichman
Executive producers: Robert Jones, Henry Normal, Michael Winterbottom, David M. Thompson, Steve Coogan
Director of photography: Steve Cosens
Production designer: Matthew Davies
Music: Broken Social Scene
Costume designer: Debra Hanson
Editor: Marguerite Arnold
Cast:
Alex Hughes: Alan Rickman
Linda Freeman: Sigourney Weaver
Maggie: Carrie-Anne Moss
Vivienne: Emily Hampshire
Clyde: James Allodi
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 112 minutes...
- 2/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screened at the Berlin International Film Festival
BERLIN -- "Snow Cake" tries to wring intimate drama and sweet epiphanies from a collection of oddball characters, peculiar circumstances and doubtful coincidences in a middle-of-nowhere Canadian town. The mental and physical landscape would do justice to an Atom Egoyan film, but in this film, written by Angela Pell and directed by Marc Evans, the key dramatic moments feel as forced as they are predictable.
This low-key Canadian-British production, the opening-night selection for the Berlin International Film Festival, has a chance at art house exposure with its cast of Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Carrie-Anne Moss, but theatrical opportunities will be limited.
Mostly, Pell presents characters out of sync with their lives, uncomfortable in their bodies and overly protective of their emotions. There is one live wire, but she must die early for these people to connect at all.
Young and over-caffeinated Vivienne (Emily Hampshire) is the sacrificial lamb in this fiction, a gregarious and talkative hitchhiker who is grudgingly picked up by the sour-faced and incommunicative Alex (Rickman), whose entire body sags under the weight of the baggage of his past.
As the two near her destination, a terrible car accident claims her life but leaves Alex with barely a scratch. Overwhelmed with remorse and guilt, even though the accident was not his fault, Alex seeks out Vivienne's mother, Linda (Weaver), who scarcely reacts to her daughter's death. This, he soon learns, is due to her autism. Only it's the kind of literary autism that allows her to make sagacious observations and funny remarks.
Linda does persuade Alex To stay the night, which turns into several more nights. It's enough time for Alex To begin an unlikely affair with beautiful neighbor Maggie (Moss), who is no more out of place in this environment than a three-star restaurant. And, wouldn't you know it, Maggie, too, has a past.
Everyone's past, none of which is nearly as interesting as the filmmakers seem to believe, gets chewed over in the coming days. Then there's a local cop (James Allodi), smitten with unrequited affection for Maggie, lurking ominously in the background, jealously festering over her swift embrace of this lonely drifter. It's a plot line without a payoff.
Performances here feel like performances. Rickman and Weaver have so carefully thought through their roles in such minute physical details that nothing feels spontaneous. By contrast, Moss is warm and natural, but her urban character is so underwritten and alarmingly out of place in this small town that all Maggie can do is act as a catalyst for other people's healing.
SNOW CAKE
Revolution Films/Rhombus Media
Credits:
Director: Marc Evans
Screenwriter: Angela Pell
Producers: Gina Carter, Jessica Daniel, Andrew Eaton, Niv Fichman
Executive producers: Robert Jones, Henry Normal, Michael Winterbottom, David M. Thompson, Steve Coogan
Director of photography: Steve Cosens
Production designer: Matthew Davies
Music: Broken Social Scene
Costume designer: Debra Hanson
Editor: Marguerite Arnold
Cast:
Alex Hughes: Alan Rickman
Linda Freeman: Sigourney Weaver
Maggie: Carrie-Anne Moss
Vivienne: Emily Hampshire
Clyde: James Allodi
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 112 minutes...
BERLIN -- "Snow Cake" tries to wring intimate drama and sweet epiphanies from a collection of oddball characters, peculiar circumstances and doubtful coincidences in a middle-of-nowhere Canadian town. The mental and physical landscape would do justice to an Atom Egoyan film, but in this film, written by Angela Pell and directed by Marc Evans, the key dramatic moments feel as forced as they are predictable.
This low-key Canadian-British production, the opening-night selection for the Berlin International Film Festival, has a chance at art house exposure with its cast of Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Carrie-Anne Moss, but theatrical opportunities will be limited.
Mostly, Pell presents characters out of sync with their lives, uncomfortable in their bodies and overly protective of their emotions. There is one live wire, but she must die early for these people to connect at all.
Young and over-caffeinated Vivienne (Emily Hampshire) is the sacrificial lamb in this fiction, a gregarious and talkative hitchhiker who is grudgingly picked up by the sour-faced and incommunicative Alex (Rickman), whose entire body sags under the weight of the baggage of his past.
As the two near her destination, a terrible car accident claims her life but leaves Alex with barely a scratch. Overwhelmed with remorse and guilt, even though the accident was not his fault, Alex seeks out Vivienne's mother, Linda (Weaver), who scarcely reacts to her daughter's death. This, he soon learns, is due to her autism. Only it's the kind of literary autism that allows her to make sagacious observations and funny remarks.
Linda does persuade Alex To stay the night, which turns into several more nights. It's enough time for Alex To begin an unlikely affair with beautiful neighbor Maggie (Moss), who is no more out of place in this environment than a three-star restaurant. And, wouldn't you know it, Maggie, too, has a past.
Everyone's past, none of which is nearly as interesting as the filmmakers seem to believe, gets chewed over in the coming days. Then there's a local cop (James Allodi), smitten with unrequited affection for Maggie, lurking ominously in the background, jealously festering over her swift embrace of this lonely drifter. It's a plot line without a payoff.
Performances here feel like performances. Rickman and Weaver have so carefully thought through their roles in such minute physical details that nothing feels spontaneous. By contrast, Moss is warm and natural, but her urban character is so underwritten and alarmingly out of place in this small town that all Maggie can do is act as a catalyst for other people's healing.
SNOW CAKE
Revolution Films/Rhombus Media
Credits:
Director: Marc Evans
Screenwriter: Angela Pell
Producers: Gina Carter, Jessica Daniel, Andrew Eaton, Niv Fichman
Executive producers: Robert Jones, Henry Normal, Michael Winterbottom, David M. Thompson, Steve Coogan
Director of photography: Steve Cosens
Production designer: Matthew Davies
Music: Broken Social Scene
Costume designer: Debra Hanson
Editor: Marguerite Arnold
Cast:
Alex Hughes: Alan Rickman
Linda Freeman: Sigourney Weaver
Maggie: Carrie-Anne Moss
Vivienne: Emily Hampshire
Clyde: James Allodi
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 112 minutes...
TORONTO -- Daniel MacIvor's Wilby Wonderful will open the 24th Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sept. 17, it was announced Wednesday. The ensemble comedy, MacIvor's second movie as director and writer after Past Perfect in 2002, was shot in Picton, Nova Scotia, and stars MacIvor, Sandra Oh (Under the Tuscan Sun), Maury Chaykin (My Cousin Vinnie) and Paul Gross (Due South). Wilby Wonderful is set for release in Canada on Oct. 1 through Mongrel Media. The movie portrays a day in the life of several island locals trying to maintain business as usual in the face of unusual circumstances. The film also stars Callum Keith Rennie (Falling Angels), James Allodi (Foolproof), Rebecca Jenkins (Marion Bridge) and Ellen Page (Marion Bridge). The Atlantic Film Festival, Canada's most prestigious festival after Toronto, runs through Sept. 25.
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