The Canadian Screen Awards Honouring Digital Storytelling took place in Toronto last Thursday recognizing Canadian, digital content creators in 13 categories. New categories this year included Best Supporting Performance, Web Program or Series; Best Writing, Web Program or Series; Best Immersive Experience – Non-Fiction; Best Immersive Experience – Fiction; and Best Virtual Reality Game. Among the night’s winners were Danielle Graham and Lainey Lui, who shared the award for Best Host, Web Program or Series, for their Twitter special etalk Live: The Oscars Balcony. CBC Comedy web series How to Buy A Baby (LoCo Motion Pictures) took the award for Best Web Program or Series, Fiction, while veteran Canadian actress Jayne Eastwood claimed the honour for Best Supporting Performance for The Writers’ Block (Frantic Films), also streamed by CBC Comedy. Find the complete list of winners here.
CBC is partnering with the Canadian Improv Games to showcase talented youth from across the country, starting with the Games’ annual National Tournament and Festival in Ottawa this week. Celebrating 42 years since the first tournament, the four-day event invites high school improv teams to Ottawa’s National Arts Centre where they will go head-to-head against teams from across Canada. This year, CBC will be onsite to capture the action, which will be released as a six-part docuseries on the CBC Gem streaming service later this year, hosted by veteran improv performer and Canadian Screen Award-winning actor Andrew Phung (Kim’s Convenience).
The Independent Production Fund (IPF) and its 40-member Pre-Selection Committees have selected 20 short-form web series proposals which are now eligible to advance to the next phase of the application process and apply for Production Financing. They include 14 projects in English and six in French.Three web series, previously funded by the IPF, achieved certain milestones of success and are eligible to apply for second seasons. The IPF received a total of 160 proposals for web series funding from across Canada. Watch trailers of the short-listed web series here.
Credit Unions of Atlantic Canada is partnering with Jonathan Torrens’ Canadianity Content Studios (CCS) to launch financial literacy web series “Your Two Cents.” Torrens, one of the former hosts of CBC’s Street Cents, hosts the eight-part web series focused on teaching the next generation of Canadian consumers how to be smart, informed, and engaged. Torrens says in the same way Street Cents armed viewers with valuable info to make their own decisions, “Your Two Cents” will blend pop culture and parody with practical takeaways. The first season will start streaming in early spring.
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