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Highball TV
Highball.TV is a Canadian subscription video on demand service, launched in 2018 by Melissa D'Agostino and Matthew Campagna. The service offers a curated selection of films, concentrating primarily on titles that have screened at various prestigious Canadian and international film festivals but have not otherwise received widespread commercial distribution, partnering with film festivals including Tribeca Film Festival The platform also features a selection of original Canadian movies and web series including Mother of All Shows, ''The Drawer Boy'', '' Tactical Girls'', ''Band Ladies'' and '' Less Than Kosher''. The service is currently available on the web, as well as apps for Apple TV An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ... and Roku devices. Subscription rates are $ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Business
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ''Forbes'' survey of closely held U.S. businesses sold a trillion dollars' worth of goods and services ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Drawer Boy
''The Drawer Boy'' is a play by Michael Healey. It is a two-act play set in 1972 on a farm near Clinton, Ontario. There are only three characters: the farm's two owners, Morgan and Angus, and Miles Potter, a young actor from Toronto doing research for a collectively created theatre piece about farming. ''The Drawer Boy'' premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille in 1999, starring Tom Barnett, David Fox and Jerry Franken. It is the winner of the 1999 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language drama and was published in 1999 by Playwrights Canada Press. Plot The Drawer Boy replays the adventures of a young actor from a Toronto theatre group who visits the rural Ontario home of two elderly bachelor farmers to "research" farm life for a new play. In doing so, he demonstrates the way in which a collective creation appropriated the lives of its subjects and changed their own interpretation of it. The two farmers, Morgan and Angus, have achieved a precarious balance in their li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roku
Roku ( ) is a brand of hardware digital media players manufactured by American company Roku, Inc. They offer access to streaming media content from online services. The first Roku model, developed in collaboration with Netflix, was introduced in May 2008. Roku devices are considered to have popularized the concept of low-cost, small-form-factor set-top boxes for over-the-top media consumption. Roku has also licensed its platform as middleware for smart TVs. As of September 2022, Roku ha65.4million active accounts. History Roku was founded by Anthony Wood in 2002, who had previously founded ReplayTV, a DVR company that competed with TiVo. After ReplayTV's failure, Wood worked for a while at Netflix. In 2007, Wood's company began working with Netflix on Project:Griffin, a set-top box to allow Netflix users to stream Netflix content to their TVs. Only a few weeks before the project's launch, Netflix's founder Reed Hastings decided it would hamper license arrangements with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apple TV
An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, ''Malus sieversii'', is still found today. Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe and were brought to North America by European colonization of the Americas, European colonists. Apples have Religion, religious and mythology, mythological significance in many cultures, including Norse mythology, Norse, Greek mythology, Greek, and Christianity in Europe, European Christian tradition. Apples grown from seed tend to be very different from those of their parents, and the resultant fruit frequently lacks desired characteristics. Generally, apple cultivars are propagated by clonal grafting onto rootstocks. Apple trees grown without rootstocks tend to be larger and much slower to fruit after plantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Less Than Kosher
''Less Than Kosher'' is Canadian comedy web series, which premiered in 2023 on Highball TV. The series stars Shaina Silver-Baird as Viv, a self-professed "bad Jew" who moves back into her parents' home after failing to make it as a pop singer, and unexpectedly ends up working as a cantor at her local synagogue. Its cast also includes David Reale, David Eisner, Sugith Varughese, Sarah Orenstein, Arielle Halili, Vanessa Smythe, Nadine Djoury, Aisha Evelyna, Michael Goldlist, Claire Acott and Tamar Ilanna. The series was screened theatrically as a film at a number of Jewish film festivals, before premiering on Highball in web series format. Awards The series won four awards at the 2023 T.O. Webfest, including the Grand Prize for Best Web Series and the awards for Best Comedy, Best Writing, and Best Actor in a Canadian Web Series (Silver-Baird). The series received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024, for Best Original Program or Seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Band Ladies
''Band Ladies'' is a Canadian comedy web series, which premiered in 2020 on Highball TV. The series centres on five adult women who feel restless and in need of change in their lives as they approach age 40, and decide to turn their book club into a punk rock band after a video of them drunkenly singing together goes viral on the internet. The five main characters are Chloe (Lisa Michelle Cornelius), Marnie (Kate Fenton), Cindy (Vicki Kim), Penny (Dana Puddicombe) and Stephanie (Kirsten Rasmussen). The cast also includes Tricia Black, Kris Siddiqi, Natasha Negovanlis and Ishan Davé. The series was written by Fenton and Puddicombe, and directed by Molly Flood. The series received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, for Best Lead Performance in a Web Program or Series (Cornelius) and Best Supporting Performance in a Web Program or Series (Black). Black won the award for Best Supporting Performance.Victoria Ahearn"Sarah Polley, Jayne E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tactical Girls
''Tactical Girls'' is a Canadian digital series created and written by Melissa D'Agostino, Matt Campagna and Diana Bentley. The series stars Nicole Stamp, Melissa D'Agostino and Diana Bentley as three women who work in the trucking industry, but at night dress as soldiers for tactical missions. The first season was released in August 2016. Cast *Melissa D'Agostino as Dougy * Nicole Stamp as Stamper *Dian Bentley as Bender *Maria Vacratsis as The Boss *Ted Dykstra as Colonel McCullough * Kristian Bruun as Detective Laurence Reception The series has screened at festivals around the world, winning Best TV/Web Series at the Canada Independent Film Festival playing at the Seattle Web Fest and winning at 5th Canadian Screen Awards The 5th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 12, 2017, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2016. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2017. Awards in many of the technical categor ... for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Of All Shows
''Mother of All Shows'' is a 2023 musical feature film directed by Melissa D'Agostino, and written by David James Brock and Melissa D'Agostino. The film stars D'Agostino as Liza Mangiani, a woman who is processing the imminent death of her mother Rosa ( Wendie Malick) by imagining their lives through the prism of a 1970s television variety show. Cast Filming ''Mother of All Shows'' was shot in Ontario in January 2022, and was Melissa D'Agostino's feature directorial debut. Release The film premiered on June 1, 2023, as the opening night film 2023 Art of Brooklyn festival. It had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Kingston Canadian Film Festival. The film has been picked up for distribution in the United States by Gravitas Ventures with a release date of July 16, 2024, with the Canadian release scheduled for the same date on Highball TVbr> Awards The film received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Original Song This is a list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention. Although people's attention is held by different things because individuals have different preferences, most forms of entertainment are recognisable and familiar. Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures and were supported in royal courts and developed into sophisticated forms, over time becoming available to all citizens. The process has been accelerated in modern times by an entertainment industry that records and sells entertainment products. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who chooses a private entertainment from a now enormous array of pre-recorded p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web Series
A web series (also known as a web show) is a series of scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet, which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s. A single instance of a web series program can be called an episode or a "webisode", however the term is not always used. In general, web series can be watched on a range of platforms and devices, including desktop, laptop, tablets and smartphones. They are different from streaming television, which can be watched on various streaming platforms. As of 2016, there were a number of awards that have been established to celebrate excellence in web series, like the Streamys, Webbys, IAWTV, and Indie Series Awards, although the Streamys and IAWTV also cover programs on streaming platforms. There are also several web series festivals, most notably in Los Angeles and Vancouver. Most major award ceremonies have also created web series and digital media awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movies
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
