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Canadian Screen Award For Best Writing In A Children's Or Youth Program Or Series
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program or Series is a Canadian Screen Award that honours writing in English language children's television produced in Canada. Winners and nominees Winners in bold. 1990s 1994 * Roger Fredericks and Louise Moon - '' Street Cents'' ("Hype") * Richard Mortimer - ''AIDScare/AIDsCare'' * David Preston - ''Are You Afraid of the Dark?'' ("The Tale of the Dream Girl") * Leila Basen - '' Ready or Not'' ("Am I Perverted or What?") * S.M. Molitor, Don Arioli, and Morton Ritts - ''The Busy World of Richard Scarry'' ("The Talking Bread/Couscous/The Three Fisherman") 1995 * Roger Fredericks and Louise Moon - '' Street Cents'' ("Music") * David Preston - '' Bonjour Timothy'' * Steve Westren - ''Groundling Marsh'' ("Snow Job") * David Finley - ''Jim Henson's Dog City'' ("Doggy See, Doggy Do") * Frazer McArter - ''Madison'' ("Stealing Home") * Michael Mercer - '' Nilus the Sandman: The First Day'' 1996 * Marlene Matthew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award
The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the awards recognize excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The awards were first presented in 2013 as the result of a merger of the Gemini Awards and Genie Awards—the Academy's previous awards presentations for television (English-language) and film productions. They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award for Canadian entertainers, artists, and filmmakers, often referred to as the equivalent of the Oscars and Emmy Awards in the United States, the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom, the AACTA Awards in Australia, the IFTA Awards in Ireland, the César Awards in France and the Goya Awards in Spain. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugith Varughese
Sugith Varughese (born 25 April 1957) is an Indian-born Canadian writer, director and actor. Background Born in Cochin, Kerala, India into a Syriac Saint Thomas Christian family ("Varughese," also sometimes spelled "Varghese" and "Verghese" and variously pronounced, is Syriac-Malayalam for "George"), he immigrated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as a child when his neurosurgeon father obtained a professional appointment there. His family's native language is Malayalam; having grown up in anglophone western Canada he naturally speaks English with a Canadian accent but from time to time affects an assortment of South Asian accents when playing dramatic roles that call for them. Sugith Varughese was raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, began university studies at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon with a double major in pre-medicine and drama, and continued on to an undergraduate degree in drama at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a Master of Fine Arts at York Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned's Newt
''Ned's Newt'' is an animated television series created by Andy Knight and Mike Burgess and is co-produced by Nelvana and German company TMO Film GmbH (later renamed as "TMO-Loonland Film GmbH" in seasons 2-3) in conjunction with Studio B Productions. It aired on Teletoon from October 17, 1997 to December 31, 1999. In the United States, the series aired on Fox Kids starting on February 7, 1998 on Saturday mornings, but later changed to weekday mornings on October 5, 1998 to January 1, 1999. However, only the first season aired on Fox Kids in the U.S. while the series was never rebroadcast for many years. The series also aired on the now-defunct Qubo (with seasons 2-3) from March 28, 2016 to July 27, 2018, and again starting from March 30, 2020 to July 24, 2020. Teletoon Retro aired reruns of all 39 half-hour episodes on September 5, 2011 until it pulled off the air in early 2012. Synopsis The series begins with 9-year-old Ned Flemkin finally scraping up enough money to buy a pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenn Scott
Kenn Scott is a Toronto-based screenwriter noted for his work in children's programming and animation. Included amongst the many shows he has written for are ''Ned's Newt'', ''Iggy Arbuckle'', ''Captain Flamingo'', ''Rescue Heroes'', ''Seven Little Monsters'', ''Pelswick'', ''Quads!'', ''Delilah and Julius'', ''Dino Dan'' and '' Doki''. His column "A Writer's Life" appears regularly in the magazine ''Canadian Screenwriter''. He is also the co-author of the university textbook ''On Our Wavelength: Broadcasting History From A Canadian Perspective'', and the video game ''Uh-Oh Flamingo!''https://www.centennialcollege.ca/programs-courses/full-time/childrens-media/ Click on Faculty bios and scroll down. Scott won a special animation award from the Writers Guild of Canada The Writers Guild of Canada is an organization representing more than 2,500 professional writers working in film, television, radio, and digital media production in Canada. Members of the Guild write dramatic TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Foon
Dennis Foon (born 18 November 1951) is a Canadian playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was co-founder and artistic director for 12 years of Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. There he wrote and produced a body of plays that continue to be produced internationally in numerous languages. He has received the British Theatre Award, two Chalmers awards, the Jesse Richardson Career Achievement Award, a Governor General's nomination for ''Skin'', and the International Arts for Young Audiences Award for these. In 2007, he was made a lifetime member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada for “his outstanding contribution to Canadian Playwriting and Theatre.” Foon's screenplays have continued his exploration into the psyche of youth: ''Little Criminals'' (1995), produced as a CBC movie about an 11-year-old gang leader, won multiple national and international awards; ''Life, Above All'' (2011), is a feature that received a ten-minute standing ovation at Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolie Polie Olie
''Rolie Polie Olie'' is a computer-animated children's television series produced by Nelvana and created by William Joyce. The show focuses on a little robot who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI. ''Rolie Polie Olie'' was broadcast from October 4, 1998, to April 28, 2004 and later reran on Disney Junior from March 23, 2012, until September 28, 2014. The series was followed by two straight-to-video films based on the series (''The Great Defender of Fun'' and ''The Baby Bot Chase''), in 2002 and 2003 respectively. ''Rolie Polie Olie'' won a Gemini Award in Canada for "Best Animated Program" in 1999. The show also won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program" in 2000 and 2005. William Joyce won a 1999 Daytime Emmy for Best Production Design for this series. The show has a vintage atmosphere, with futuristic elements. The first five seasons w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian James Corlett
Ian James Corlett (born August 29, 1962) is a Canadian voice actor, animator, and author. He is the creator of Studio B Productions' animated series ''Being Ian'' and ''Yvon of the Yukon''. One of his best-known animation roles was the first English voice of adult Goku in the Ocean dub of ''Dragon Ball Z'' in 1996–1997. Career Corlett began his career in 1984. In addition to programming some drum tracks and helping with some computer sequences on Queensrÿche's album '' Operation: Mindcrime'', and also selling the band some music gear in the 1980s, Corlett also lent his voice to several animated series produced/dubbed in Canada. His most notable voice roles included the title character of the ''Mega Man'' TV show, Cheetor in '' Beast Wars: Transformers'', Glitch-Bob in ''ReBoot'', and Andy Larkin in ''What's with Andy?''. Another notable, yet brief starring role of Corlett's was Goku in Funimation/ Saban's original dub of ''Dragon Ball Z''. Corlett has also lent his voice to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Chan
Marty Chan (born May 11, 1965) is a Chinese-Canadian author and playwright based in Edmonton, Alberta. His works include ''Something Dead And Evil Lurks In The Cemetery And It's My Dad'', ''The Bone House'', ''Maggie's Last Dance'', ''Mom, Dad - I'm Living with a White Girl'', and ''The Forbidden Phoenix''. He is well known for his six-year run on CBC Radio of ''The Dim Sum Diaries'', a series of short vignettes about his life growing up in small-town Northern Alberta as the only Chinese family around. His two children's novels, ''The Mystery of the Frozen Brains'' and ''The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul'', were based on the same experiences. He finished promoting his second children's book ''The Mystery of The Graffiti Ghoul'', which is about Marty, a Chinese boy, trying to solve a mystery with his friend Remi. It has been nominated for a MYRCA (Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award), and has won the Diamond Willow Award. His third children's book ''The Mystery of the Mad Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Up (TV Series)
''Straight Up'' is a short lived Canadian television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions. Although critically acclaimed, the show only ran for 13 episodes on CBC Television from 1996 to 1998. Set in Toronto, the show dealt with the gritty problems of teenagers living in an urban environment. Rather than focusing on a core group of principal characters, each episode would typically feature a different set of the ensemble teenage cast. Initially, although the character relationships were intertwined, each episode would feature a self-contained plot usually involving only a few of the characters. However during the second season, there was a continuing story arc involving a murder over multiple episodes. Although ''Straight Up'' only lasted for two seasons, it spawned the spin-off series ''Drop the Beat'', which followed the characters of Jeff and Dennis as DJs at a campus radio station. Cast *Tomas Chovanec as Tony *Evelyn Anders as Claire *Mona Atwell as Simone *Morphe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Walton
Karen Walton is a Canadian screenwriter best known for writing the film, ''Ginger Snaps'', for which she won the Best Film Writing Canadian Comedy Award in 2002. Her writing for the film received both critical scrutiny and academic analysis. Walton has since been recognised with multiple awards. She has also written for the Canadian television series ''What It's Like Being Alone''Gorman, Brian (29 July 2006). "The Lighter Side of Solitude". ''National Post'', page TO.30.F. Toronto, Ontario, and three episodes of the American version of '' Queer as Folk'', for which she also served as executive story consultant. She appeared in the 2009 documentary '' Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror.'' In recent years, she has served as a writer and producer on a number of Canadian television series including '' Flashpoint'', '' The Listener'' and ''Orphan Black'', which is distributed by BBC Worldwide and airs on BBC America in the United States. Background Karen Walton was born in Halifax, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Tugboat
''Theodore Tugboat'' is a Canadian children's television series about a tugboat named Theodore who lives in the Big Harbour with all of his friends. The show originated (and is set) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada as a co-production between the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), and the now defunct Cochran Entertainment, and was filmed on a model set using radio controlled tugboats, ships, and machinery. Production of the show ended in 2001, and its distribution rights were later sold to Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics). The show premiered in Canada on CBC Television, then went to PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), was on Qubo in the United States, and has appeared in eighty different countries. The show deals with life learning issues portrayed by the tugs or other ships in the harbour. Most often, the tugs have a problem, or get involved in a struggle with each other or another ship, but they always manage to help one another resolve these problems and see them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert C
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
