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23rd Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 23rd Gemini Awards were held on November 28, 2008, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Jason Priestley, took place at the John Bassett Theatre in Toronto and was broadcast on Showcase and E!. Awards Best Dramatic Series *''Intelligence'' - Haddock Entertainment. Producers: Chris Haddock, Laura Lightbown, Arvi Liimatainen *'' The Border'' - White Pine Pictures. Producers: Peter Raymont, David Barlow, Brian Dennis, Janet Maclean *'' Durham County'' - Muse Entertainment, Back Alley Film Productions. Producers: Janis Lundman, Adrienne Mitchell, Michael Prupas *''Murdoch Mysteries'' - Shaftesbury Films, Rogers Media, UKTV. Producers: Christina Jennings, Cal Coons, Scott Garvie, Noel Hedges, Jan Peter Meyboom *''The Tudors'' - Peace Arch Entertainment, Reveille Productions, Working Title Films, Showtime Networks. Producers: Sheila Hockin, Morgan O’Sullivan Best Dramatic Mini-Series *''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bassett Theatre
The John W. H. Bassett Theatre is a multi-purpose theatre located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Front Street, in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The theatre is regularly used by the CTV Television Network for television shows such as '' Canadian Idol'' and ''Canada's Got Talent.'' The 1,232 seat, multi-purpose theatre is a self-contained venue within the Metro Toronto Convention Centre's North Building. The adjacent rooms host pre-and post-performance receptions. The theatre also hosts corporate events, a number of nationally televised award shows, community events and national and international TV specials. The theatre was named for John Bassett, the founder of Baton Broadcasting, the main predecessor of Bell Media, parent of the CTV Television Network. Since 2003 the theatre has been regularly used by CTV for programs such as '' Canadian Idol'' and was used in December 2011 for the Toronto Canada's Got Talent ''Canada's Got Talent'' is a Canadian televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaftesbury Films
Shaftesbury Films is a film, television and digital media production company founded by Christina Jennings in 1987. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Background Shaftesbury is a creator and producer of original content for television and digital platforms. Shaftesbury's slate includes 11 seasons of Murdoch Mysteries for CBC, UKTV, and ITV STUDIOS Global Entertainment; detective drama Frankie Drake for CBC; Houdini & Doyle for Sony Pictures Television, Corus Entertainment, ITV, and Fox; thriller series '' Slasher'' for NBCUniversal's Chiller and now available on Netflix; and CBC Kids series The Moblees. Shaftesbury's digital arm, Smokebomb Entertainment, produces original digital, convergent, and branded entertainment projects including the YouTube series and upcoming movie Carmilla; mystery series V Morgan Is Dead; fashion comedy series MsLabelled, produced in partnership with Shaw Media and Tetley Tea; supernatural drama Inhuman Condition; and the ''Slasher'' VR app for iO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Devine (director)
David Devine is a film director and producer, specialising in children's films. He was the co-founder and CEO of Devine Entertainment between 1994 and 2O13, where he created original content for film, television and digital media. Devine had his first success directing and producing Raffi's concert videos. Subsequent highlights of his producer/director career include ''Beethoven Lives Upstairs'', ''Einstein: Light to the Power of Two'', ''Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants'', ''Degas and the Dancer'', ''Edison: The Wizard of Light'' and ''Bailey's Billion$''. Devine has also been a hands-on creator and producer of 16 symphonic soundtracks for his films and six CDs distributed on the Sony Classical label. As Producer, his CDs include 82 member symphony recordings of Bach, Strauss, Handel, Bizet, Rossini and Liszt. Devine has been focused on addressing important creative, social and cultural issues in his films and digital media throughout his directing and producing career. His 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wertheimer
Robert Wertheimer (born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a writer, producer, director and executive producer of film and television productions. Wertheimer started working in 1977. Wertheimer graduated from the University of Vermont's Economics and Business Administration program and also studied Communication Arts at Concordia University in Montreal under the tutelage of Marc Gervais. Deeply influenced by Gervais, Wertheimer gave particular focus to French New Wave Cinema and the impact of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and others is still readily apparent in his work. After a long career making theatrical feature films (including Deepa Mehta's ''Sam & Me'' which was honoured at the Cannes Film Festival the year of its release, box office champion ''Bollywood/Hollywood'', also written and directed by Deepa Mehta) and television series ('' Friday the 13th: The Series''; ''War of the Worlds''; '' RoboCop: The Series''; and including his Gemini for Best Series for '' Due South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Across The River To Motor City
''Across the River to Motor City'' is a Canadian television drama series, that aired on Citytv stations. It debuted November 22, 2007. The series is about an insurance investigator named Ben Ford who works the border in both Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, Windsor. The story takes into account the shifting allegiances and ambitions that straddle the Detroit/Windsor boundary, an urban portion of the Canada/United States border. Benjamin Ford's 30th birthday happens to fall on a fateful day: November 22, 1963, the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination, Kennedy assassination. Coincidentally, it is also the day that his flight attendant girlfriend, Katie, disappears on a flight back from Dallas. The mystery of what happened to her, and why, consumes the life of Ben Ford; it eventually involves his adult daughter, Kathleen, when Katie's body turns up 40 years later. Family mysteries and intrigue play out against a backdrop of some of the more momentous events of recent American and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin DeWalt
Kevin DeWalt (born 1959) is a Canadian film and television producer based in Regina, Saskatchewan. He is the former president of the International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers and the past Chairman of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association. DeWalt has produced over 60 films and television shows such as ''A Score to Settle'', ''The Englishman's Boy'', '' Forsaken'' and '' The Tall Man''. He is the founder and the CEO of Minds Eye Entertainment, a Canadian film production and distribution company. Life and career DeWalt was born in 1959, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He attended Luther College, University of Regina where he studied music. DeWalt's first production in 1983 was a touring multimedia travelogue using 6 slide projectors and a 16 mm film projector of his three year around the world backpacking travel adventure titled ''Namaste''. In 1986, DeWalt founded Minds Eye Entertainment with Ken Krawczyk in Regina. The company produces and distributes independ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mind's Eye Entertainment
Mind's Eye Entertainment is a Canadian film and television production and distribution company headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The company produces television and film projects in Canada and the United States as well as internationally. Mind's Eye Entertainment was founded by Kevin DeWalt and Ken Krawczyk in 1986. The company has produced more than sixty films and television series and has received over fifty national and international film awards. History Mind's Eye Entertainment was formed in 1986 by Kevin DeWalt and Ken Krawczyk. In 1989, the company produced their first drama project, ''The Great Electrical Revolution'', a short film written by Ken Mitchell. The film was produced in collaboration with National Film Board of Canada. In 1997, Mind's Eye Entertainment and Condor Films jointly produced Richard Chamberlain starrer ''The Lost Daughter''. The same year, the company produced season 1 of ''Incredible Story Studios'', a 65-episode dramatic television ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Englishman's Boy
''The Englishman's Boy'' is a novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe, published in 1996 by McClelland and Stewart, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1996 and was nominated for the Giller Prize. It deals with the events of the Cypress Hills Massacre (1873) as told 50 years later to a young screenwriter in Hollywood by the last living survivor. Television film On 2 March 2008, ''The Englishman's Boy'' premiered as a made-for-television film on CBC with a budget of $11.7 million. The film won six Gemini Awards: Best Dramatic Mini-Series; John N. Smith as director; Nicholas Campbell as leading actor; Katharine Isabelle as supporting actress; Carmen Kotyk, for casting; and Beverley Wowchuk Beverley is a market and minster town and a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, of which it is the county town. The town centre is located south-east of York's centre and north-west of City of Hull. The town is known fo ... for costumes.http:// ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showtime Networks
Showtime Networks Inc. is an American entertainment company that oversees the company's pay television, premium cable television television channel, channels, including its flagship service Showtime (TV network), Showtime. It is a subsidiary of media conglomerate Paramount Global under Paramount Media Networks, its networks unit. Overview The company was established in 1983 as Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc. after Viacom (1952–2006), Viacom and Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment (now Paramount Media Networks) merged their premium channels, Showtime (TV network), Showtime and The Movie Channel respectively, into one division. In 1984, American Express sold their interest in Warner-Amex to Warner Communications (now Warner Bros. Discovery) making Warner the new half-owner of Showtime/TMC. In 1985, Warner sold its half-interest to Viacom, making the company a wholly owned subsidiary of Viacom. 1985 also saw the pay-per-view service In Demand, Viewer's Choice become part of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Working Title Films
Working Title Films is a British film studio that produces motion pictures and television programs and is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a division of Comcast. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. It produces feature films and several television productions. Bevan and Eric Fellner are now the co-chairmen of the company. Company Working Title Films was co founded by producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. Radclyffe left in 1992, PolyGram became the company's corporate backer, and Eric Fellner, a fellow independent film producer, joined the company. The company produced a variety of films for PolyGram's London based production company, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. An Anglo-Dutch film studio, PolyGram Films became a major Hollywood competitor. In 1998, Seagram sold the bulk of its library of PolyGram films released up until 31 March 1996 to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1999, PolyGram was sold to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemol Shine North America
Endemol Shine North America is the American division of Endemol Shine Group that was founded on March 15, 2002 as a merger of Shine Americas, Shine USA, and Reveille Productions. Endemol Shine North America produces and distributes scripted and unscripted television and digital content through its global Shine 360˚ division. Endemol Shine North America has produced original series including ''The Biggest Loser'', ''Tabatha Takes Over'', ''The Face'', and ''Parental Control''; adaptations of Shine Group formats ''MasterChef'', ''Minute to Win It'', ''One Born Every Minute'', and ''The Wall''; long-running scripted shows ''The Office'', ''Ugly Betty'', and ''The Tudors''; and over 20 original online series on MSN, Yahoo!, YouTube premium channels and other platforms, many of these with sponsors such as Walmart, Toyota, Kraft Foods, Subway and Microsoft. Through Endemol Shine Group's distribution arm, Endemol Shine International, Endemol Shine North America distributes to more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peace Arch Entertainment
Peace Arch Entertainment ("PAE") (formerly known as Medco from 1981 until 1985 and Vidatron Entertainment from 1985 until 1999) was a Canadian motion picture and television production company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with offices in Los Angeles and Vancouver. The company produced and acquired feature films and television programs for worldwide distribution. History Founded in 1981 as a home entertainment distributor, Peace Arch Entertainment got its name from the famous Peace Arch monument located on the Canada–US border near Blaine, Washington. Much like the monument represents an "open door" policy between the United States and Canada, PAE sought to promote the same form of unity within the company. It was originally known as Medco, before renaming it in 1985, to Vidatron Entertainment, and the company went public. In 1997, the company had bought out Sugar Entertainment. In 1999, it was then renamed to Peace Arch Entertainment, and continues to develop their ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |