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9th Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 9th Gemini Awards were held on March 5, 1995 to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Paul Gross and Tina Keeper, took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television. Winners and nominees The following are the winners and nominees of the 9th annual Gemini Awards. Winners appear first and highlighted in bold. Best Dramatic Series *''Due South'' - Alliance Communications. Producers: Jeff King, Paul Haggis, Kathy Slevin *''Road to Avonlea'' - Sullivan Entertainment. Producers: Trudy Grant, Kevin Sullivan *'' Street Legal''- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Nadia Harcourt, Duncan Lamb, Helen Kafka, Chris Paton *''Neon Rider'' - Virtue/Rekert Productions, Atlantis Films. Producers: Winston Rekert, Danny Virtue, Michael MacMillan *''E.N.G.'' - Atlantis Communications. Producers: Jennifer Black, David Barlow *''Destiny Ridge'' - Great North Produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (originally and still colloquially Metro Convention Centre, and sometimes MTCC), is a convention complex located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada along Front Street (Toronto), Front Street West in the former Railway Lands in downtown Toronto. The property is today owned by Oxford Properties. The centre is operated by the Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre Corporation, an independent agency of the Government of Ontario. Description The MTCC has of space, and is home to the 1232-seat John Bassett Theatre. To the east end of the complex is the 586-room InterContinental Toronto Centre hotel (formerly Canadian National Railway's ''L'Hotel CN''). At the west end of the complex is a 265,000 square foot Class-B office building. Within the office building is the Pint restaurant, which was formerly a Baton Rouge (restaurant), Baton Rouge from 2006 to 2017 and a Planet Hollywood from 1996 to 2006. A south building containing exhibition space is located south o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neon Rider
''Neon Rider'' is a Canadian drama television series which first aired between 1990 and 1995. Created by Winston Rekert and Danny Virtue, the show was about the title character, a psychologist named Michael Terry (Rekert) who, after writing a successful book on adolescent psychology, purchases his childhood friend's family ranch just outside of Mission, British Columbia to open a therapeutic residential treatment program for troubled and abused teens. The series was filmed and set in Vancouver, and British Columbia's Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. Other cast members included Samuel Sarkar, William S. Taylor, Peter Williams, Suzanne Errett-Balcom, Antoinette Bower, Barbara Tyson, Alex Bruhanski, Philip Granger and Jim Byrnes. ''Neon Rider'' was produced by Alliance Atlantis and broadcast on the CTV Television Network on Saturdays at 10 PM then moved to 8 PM in 1991. CTV cancelled the series in 1992 after which original episodes continued to air on the youth-oriented cable netw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Bezic
Sandra Marie Bezic (born April 6, 1956) is a Canadian pair skater, figure skating choreographer, and television commentator. With her brother Val Bezic, she won the Canadian Figure Skating Championships from 1970 to 1974 and placed ninth at the 1972 Winter Olympics. Skate Canada announced on July 14, 2010, that she will be inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame in the professional category Early life Bezic was born in Toronto, Ontario, on April 6, 1956. She is of Croatian descent. She is the younger sister of Val Bezic who was her skating partner. Skating career Bezic competed in Canadian national competitions and international competitions from 1967 to 1975. In 1975, during training for the 1976 Olympics, she tore her ankle ligaments and had to forgo the 1976 Olympics. She turned professional in 1976. Bezic choreographed the competitive programs skated by many Olympic and World champions, including Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini (1984 Worlds), Brian Boitano (1988 W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakthrough Entertainment
Breakthrough Entertainment is a Canadian production company founded in 1986 by Peter Williamson and Ira Levy. It produces famous Canadian TV shows such as ''Jimmy Two-Shoes'' and ''Atomic Betty''. History On July 10, 2018, 9 Story Media Group acquired Breakthrough Entertainment's kids and family library and development slate. On February 1, 2022 Breakthrough Enterprises Inc. and certain related entities (collectively, “Breakthrough”) each filed an NOI on February 1. Breakthrough is a Toronto, Ontario-based television production company that produces and distributes television programming worldwide. At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Breakthrough experienced interruptions in its audiovisual media productions. When shooting recommenced after the delay, Breakthrough incurred significant additional and duplicative costs that negatively impacted Breakthrough’s overall cash flow. Revenues were temporarily impacted as a result of the lack of new sales during the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The Love Of Aaron
''For the Love of Aaron'' is a Canadian television film, directed by John Kent Harrison and released in 1994."A daring, honest look at mental illness". ''Toronto Star'', February 25, 1994. Based on the true story of Margaret Gibson, a noted Canadian writer who suffered from bipolar disorder, the film dramatizes her custody battle for her son Aaron after her divorce. The film stars Meredith Baxter as Gibson, Nick Mancuso as her ex-husband Stuart and Keegan Macintosh as Aaron, as well as John Kapelos, Joanna Gleason, Malcolm Stewart and Michael Rogers. The film aired on Global in Canada, and CBS in the United States, in 1994. The film was a Gemini Award nominee for Best TV Movie, and Harrison was nominated for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, at the 9th Gemini Awards."Major Gemini Nominations". ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heads (film)
''Heads'' is an American-Canadian black comedy directed by Paul Shapiro that originally aired as a TV film. Plot Guy Franklin acquires a job at a newspaper in a small town where a series of decapitations have occurred. Before long, Franklin begins to wonder if the killer is closer than he thinks. Cast * Jon Cryer: Guy Franklin * Nancy Drake: Emily * Edward Asner: Ab Abbot * Roddy McDowall: Fibris Drake * Jennifer Tilly: Tina Abbot Production Shooting took place in Manitoba, Canada. Reception Tom Bierbaum of ''Variety'' called it "entertainingly weird, gross and amusing". Ray Loynd of the ''Los Angeles Times'' called it a "charming oddity" that could never be seen on network television. ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or t ...'' rated it 2/4 stars and wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Donovan (producer)
Michael Patrick Donovan is a Canadian film producer, executive, and screenwriter. Career Salter Street Films Michael Donovan co-founded Salter Street Films with his brother Paul Donovan in 1983. Though the company got off to a slow start, Donovan eventually had major success with projects such as the Canadian satirical comedy series ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes''. Salter Street Films was acquired by Alliance Atlantis in 2001, and was closed by them two years later, in 2003. Halifax Film Company / DHX Media In May 2004, after Alliance Atlantis closed Salter Street Films, Michael Donovan founded Halifax Film Company with many of the former Salter Street employees. In 2006, Halifax Film Company merged with Toronto, Ontario-based Decode Entertainment to become DHX Media, where Donovan served as the company's CEO from 2006 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2019, and as Executive Chair of the company from 2014 to 2019. In August 2019, Donovan stepped down from being CEO and Executiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salter Street Films
Salter Street Films was a Canadian television and film production company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. History The company was founded by brothers Paul and Michael Donovan in 1983. Paul Donovan was trained as a director at the London Film School; Michael graduated from Dalhousie University’s Law School and began as a producer of Paul's film projects. Salter Street Films was named after the street in Halifax where Paul and Michael had been living. The company began life with early problems. Its first major feature film was ''Def-Con 4'' (1985) which eventually became profitable, but other pictures such as '' George's Island'' (1989), ''Buried on Sunday'' (1992) and ''Paint Cans'' (1994), though critically acclaimed, were money-losers. The company's salvation turned out to be the science fiction series ''Lexx'', which was a hit in Germany, Russia and Eastern Europe. This Canadian-German co-production went on to become a lucrative money-maker through international sales and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life With Billy
''Life with Billy'' is a 1994 Canadian television film based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Brian Vallée. The film was nominated for five Gemini Awards, and won three. The film begins with Jane Hurshman (Beatty) shooting her common-law husband Billy Stafford (McHattie) in his sleep, and then shows the resulting police investigation and trial, interspersed with flashbacks showing the domestic abuse that Stafford inflicted on Hurshman over the course of their relationship. Cast * Nancy Beatty as Jane Hurshman * Stephen McHattie as Billy Stafford * Deb Allen as Mandy * Glenn Wadman as Ronnie Wamboldt * Matthew Ferguson as Allan Whynot * Joadi Newcomb as Dini Harrison * Nancy Marshall as Bernice Wamboldt * Tony Quinn as Cpl. Lawson * Richard Donat as Constable Snow Awards Won * Gemini Award The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's television industry. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Prieto
Claire Prieto (born 1945) is a Canadian film director and producer, known as one of the first black filmmakers in Canada. Along with Roger McTair, Prieto was a partner in the Toronto-based production company, Prieto-McTair Productions, which operated from 1982 to 2007. Early life Prieto was born in Trinidad in 1945. She immigrated to Toronto, Ontario with Roger McTair in 1970. Work Prieto's films explore Canadian black history, culture and experience and were groundbreaking as works produced by Canadian women and people of colour. Her film ''Some Black Women'' (1977) was the first film made by independent black filmmakers in Canada and her 2003 series ''Lord Have Mercy!'' was the first Caribbean-Canadian sitcom. Meanwhile, ''Black Mother Black Daughter'' (1989), produced by Prieto and Sylvia Hamilton for the Canadian National Film Board Atlantic Branch, was the first film created by this branch to employ an all-female crew. In addition to producing her own work, Prieto has mento ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfons Adetuyi
Alfons Adetuyi is a Canadian film and television director and producer."Greater Sudbury's cinematic family". ''Sudbury Star ''The Sudbury Star'' is a Canadian daily regional newspaper published in Sudbury, Ontario. It is owned by the media company, Postmedia. It is the largest daily paper in Northeastern Ontario by circulation. History The ''Sudbury Star'' began as ...'', April 25, 2009. A partner in the film and television production firm Inner City Films with his brothers Tom, Amos and Robert Adetuyi, Robert, he is most noted as the director of the theatrical feature films ''High Chicago'' and ''Love Jacked''. He has also directed episodes of the television series ''Jozi-H'' and ''Skin Deep'', the miniseries ''Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle'', and the television drama film ''Survivors''. Originally from Greater Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario, he is an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre."Ten chosen for film lab". ''Ottawa Citizen'', September 15, 1992. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hidden Room (TV Series)
''The Hidden Room'' is an American drama- horror anthology television series geared mainly towards women, which aired on the Lifetime cable network for 33 episodes from 1991 to 1993. Each episode usually centered around a woman in a hardship, but with a dark '' Twilight Zone''-ish twist.Most episodes starred a well-known actress in the lead role. The first season was hosted by a mysterious woman (Mimi Kuzyk Mimi Kuzyk (born February 21, 1952) is a Canadian actress. Early life Kuzyk was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to Fred and Kay Kuzyk, both of whom are Ukrainian immigrants, and received her early education at the Immaculate Heart of Mary School. Sh ...) who spoke cryptically. She was credited only as ''the woman in the hidden room''. The second season had no host and in 1993, when Lifetime aired repeats of some first-season episodes, the scenes with the host were edited out. Episodes Season 1 (1991) Season 2 (1993) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hidden Room, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |