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Robert Fresco (cinematographer)
Robert Fresco (born 1943) is a Canadian cinematographer and documentary filmmaker.Emelie Peacock"B.C. filmmaker brings life with autistic son to the small screen" ''Abbotsford News'', February 28, 2018. He is most noted for his 1981 documentary film '' Steady as She Goes'', for which he won the Bijou Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary and was nominated for Best Director of a Documentary, and as a Juno Award nominee for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1984 for his video for The Parachute Club's " Rise Up". His other documentary films have included ''Mudflats Living'', ''The Salvage Prince'', ''Easter in Iglooik: Peter's Story'' and ''Love, Hope and Autism'', and as a music video director he also did noteworthy work for Martha and the Muffins, including the videos for " Black Stations/White Stations" and "Cooling the Medium". As a cinematographer his credits have included the films ''Winter Kept Us Warm'', ''Firebird 2015 AD'', '' Poetry in Motion'', ''Comic Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbotsford News
The ''Abbotsford News'' is a Canadian community newspaper in Abbotsford, British Columbia published by Black Press. ''The News'' publishes more than 40,000 copies two times a week distributed across Abbotsford and also the adjacent municipality of Mission. ''The News'' claims to be one of the first community newspapers in the province due to its roots from the ''Abbotsford Post'' established in 1906 by Mission publisher John A. Bates. The Post was sold in 1922 and changed its name to ''Abbotsford, Sumas and Matsqui News''. Other sales to new owners occurred in 1938 and 1962. Black Press purchased The News in 1997. Abbotsford Times ''The News'' competed against the ''Abbotsford Times'' until Black Press purchased ''the Times'' from Glacier Media and announced in December 2013 that it would cease publishing ''the Times'' due to revenue losses and disinterest in staff at ''the Times'' transferring to Black Press. No new publishing has been as of date. See also * List of newspapers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firebird 2015 AD
''Firebird 2015 AD'' is a 1981 Canadian science fiction film directed by David M. Robertson and starring Darren McGavin and Doug McClure. Plot In the year 2015, the US government outlaws the distribution of gasoline to the public, reserving it only for the politicians, the Military and law enforcement. While it is implied this is due to a fuel shortage, later dialogue rebuffs this stating that gasoline is in abundance. Civilians are also banned from owning or using any form of motor vehicle, and those that do are referred to as Burners, and it is shown that this is a form of rebellion. Burners are monitored and dealt with harshly by the DVC; The Department of Vehicle Control. Red, a middle aged Burner drives a 1980 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am. His teenage son Cameron (Robert Wisden) however isn't much of a car enthusiast and always raises the issue of how Red is breaking the law. Meanwhile, another Burner is planning on chauffeuring a senator to a conference where he intends to make ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterborough Examiner
''The Peterborough Examiner'' is a newspaper that services Peterborough, Ontario and area. The paper started circulation in 1847, and is currently owned by Torstar and operated by its Metroland division. Between 1942 and 1955, it was edited by Canadian man of letters Robertson Davies, whose unique three-paragraph editorial style won several awards. Davies remained owner and publisher of the ''Examiner'' and Ralph Hancox the editor until 1967, when it was sold to the Thomson chain of newspapers. Subsequently, Sterling, Hollinger and Sun Media owned the newspaper before Postmedia. ''The Peterborough Examiner'' was one of several Postmedia newspapers purchased by Torstar in a transaction between the two companies which concluded on November 27, 2017. The paper continued to be published by the Metroland Media Group subsidiary of Torstar. In late May 2020, Torstar, accepted an offer for the sale of all of its assets to Nordstar Capital, a deal expected to close by year end. It is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16th Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 16th Gemini Awards were held on October 29, 2001, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Mike Bullard, took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television. Awards Best Dramatic Series * ''Da Vinci's Inquest'' - Haddock Entertainment, Barna-Alper Productions, Alliance Atlantis Productions, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Chris Haddock, Laszlo Barna, Lynn Barr, Arvi Liimatainen *'' Blue Murder'' - Barna-Alper Productions, Canwest, North Bend Films. Producers: Laszlo Barna, Norman Denver, Steve Lucas *''Drop the Beat'' - Back Alley Film Productions. Producers: Adrienne Mitchell, Susan Alexander, Janis Lundman, Suzanne Chapman *'' The Associates'' - Alliance Atlantis. Producers: Brian Dennis, Anne Marie La Traverse, Steve Blackman, Greg Ball, Alyson Feltes, Maureen McKeon *'' The Outer Limits'' - Alliance Atlantis, Atlantis Films, Showtime Networ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States and the BAFTA Television Awards in the United Kingdom. First held in 1986 to replace the ACTRA Award, the ceremony celebrated Canadian television productions with awards in 87 categories, along with other special awards such as lifetime achievement awards. The Academy had previously presented the one-off Bijou Awards in 1981, inclusive of some television productions. In April 2012, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced that the Gemini Awards and the Genie Awards would be discontinued and replaced by a new award ceremony dedicated to all forms of Canadian media, including television, film, and digital media, dubbed the "Canadian Screen Awards". The first annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on 4 March 2013. The Gemini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secrets Of Forensic Science
Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret. Secrecy is often controversial, depending on the content or nature of the secret, the group or people keeping the secret, and the motivation for secrecy. Secrecy by government entities is often decried as excessive or in promotion of poor operation; excessive revelation of information on individuals can conflict with virtues of privacy and confidentiality. It is often contrasted with social transparency. Secrecy can exist in a number of different ways: encoding or encryption (where mathematical and technical strategies are used to hide messages), true secrecy (where restrictions are put upon those who take part of the message, such as through government security classification) and obfuscation, where secrets are hidden in plain sight behind complex idiosyncrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Campbells
''The Campbells'' is a Scottish-Canadian television drama series, produced by Scottish Television and CTV from 1986 to 1990. The series starred Malcolm Stoddard as James Campbell, a Scottish doctor living in 1830s Upper Canada with his three children, seventeen-year-old Neil ( John Wildman), fourteen-year old Emma (Amber-Lea Weston) and eleven-year-old John (Eric Richards).Janice Kennedy, You don’t have to be Scottish to enjoy The Campbells' family adventure series, ''The Gazette'' (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), September 6, 1986, page 140 Cedric Smith played their neighbor, Captain Sims. In Canada it aired on CTV Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. In the United States it was shown on CBN Saturdays at 7:00 p.m. The series also aired in Great Britain on ITV from 27 April 1986.Pioneer adventure has a bit of everything, ''The Ottawa Citizen'' (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), September 11, 1986, page 48 Premise The series begins in 1832 Scotland, during the Highland Clearances, when man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twilight Zone (1985 TV Series)
''The Twilight Zone'' is an anthology television series which was constructed from September 27, 1985 to April 15, 1989. It is the first of three revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1959–64 television series, and like the original it featured a variety of speculative fiction, commonly containing characters from a seemingly normal world stumbling into paranormal circumstances. Unlike the original, however, most episodes contained multiple self-contained stories instead of just one. The voice-over narrations were still present, but were not a regular feature as they were in the original series; some episodes had only an opening narration, some had only a closing narration, and some had no narration at all. The multi-segment format liberated the series from the usual time constraints of episodic television, allowing stories ranging in length from 8-minutes to 40-minute mini-movies. The series ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication. Series hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass (1999 Film)
''Grass: History of Marijuana'' is a 1999 Canadian documentary film directed by Ron Mann, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, about the history of the United States government's war on marijuana in the 20th century. The film was narrated by actor Woody Harrelson. Overview The film follows the history of US federal policies and social attitudes towards marijuana, beginning at the turn of the twentieth century. The history presented is broken up into parts, approximately the length of a decade, each of which is introduced by paraphrasing the official attitude towards marijuana at the time (e.g. "Marijuana will make you insane" or "Marijuana will make you addicted to heroin"), and closed by providing a figure for the amount of money spent during that period on the " war on marijuana." The film places much of the blame for marijuana criminalization on Harry Anslinger (the first American drug czar) who promoted false information about marijuana to the American public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Own Private Oshawa
''My Own Private Oshawa'' is a theatrical play written and performed by Jonathan Wilson, which premiered in 1996.Vit Wagner, "Growing up gay in Oshawa". ''Toronto Star'', July 10, 1996. A one-man show taking place aboard a GO Train in which Wilson is travelling home from Toronto to Oshawa for a visit, the show is performed as a monologue about his childhood experiences as a repressed and closeted gay kid, and the impact of his more flamboyantly gay friend Gordon on his sense of self. The ultimate purpose of the trip, to attend Gordon's funeral following his death of AIDS, is revealed only at the end of the play. The play was staged for the first time in July 1996 at the Toronto Fringe Festival, where it was one of the major hits of the festival; due to its popularity, it was later remounted by Tarragon Theatre in the fall. The Tarragon production received two Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations (Small Theatre division) in 1997, for Outstanding New Play or Musical and Outstanding P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twist (1992 Film)
''The Twist'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Ron Mann and released in 1992. The film is a history of the twist dance craze of the early 1960s, exploring the creative, social and political contexts in which it was created and embraced by the public. The film premiered at the 1992 Festival of Festivals, as the closing night gala. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993."The Lotus Eaters strong contender at Genies". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...'', December 11, 1993. References External links * 1992 films 1992 documentary films Canadian documentary films Documentary films about music and musicians Films directed by Ron Mann 1990s Canadian films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisecracks
''Wisecracks'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Gail Singer and released in 1991. The film profiles a number of women who were active in comedy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including Joy Behar, Phyllis Diller, Ellen DeGeneres, Whoopi Goldberg, Geri Jewell, Paula Poundstone, Sandra Shamas and Jenny Jones. The film premiered at the 1991 Festival of Festivals. Singer's comedy film '' True Confections'' was also screened at the same festival, making her the first filmmaker in the festival's history to have both a documentary and a narrative fiction film screened at the festival in the same year. The film subsequently received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992.H. J. Kirchhoff, "French-Canadian films steal Genie show: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch leads the pack with 11 nominations". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 14, 1992. References External links * * Wisecracks' at the National Film Board of Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
