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#WatchBC at SXSW 2023
South by Southwest starts tomorrow, March 10, 2023, and closes on March 19, 2023. SXSW is an multidisciplinary festival featuring music, comedy, emerging technology, film, television, and art exhibitions based in Austin, Texas. This festival-conference…

Trickfilm Real-Time Animation Festival
Trickfilm Entertainment Inc. is thrilled to announce the launch of the World’s first real-time animation festival, a celebration of animated films created and broadcast using EPIC Games' Unreal Engine. Submissions for the festival open on…

2023 Canadian Screen Awards nominees announced
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is the largest non-profit professional media arts organization in Canada. With a membership of more than 4,000 emerging and established industry professionals, they are dedicated to developing,…

So You’ve Completed an Animated Short, Now What?
Now in its third run, the ACE (Animation Career EXCELerator) Program aims to boost women into higher level positions within the animation industry throughout Canada. ACE offers, through the leadership of Rose-Ann Tisserand and Tracey Mack, financial…

Kid-Friendly BC Films to Stream this Holiday Season
With winter break rapidly approaching, what better way to bond with the little ones in your life than turning to the holidays films shot in BC?
Puppy Star Christmas (2018) takes a unique spin on talking-dog movies by turning it into a…

Whistler Film Festival 2022
Whistler Film Festival, 'Canada's Coolest Film Fest', kicks off on November 30, 2022 running until December 4, 2022. The 2022 iteration will present 86 films; 41 features and 45 shorts including Oscar-contenders, breakthrough Canadian films…

Vancouver Asian Film Festival + VAFF 2022 Awards
The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) is the longest running Asian film festival in Canada. It was founded in 1995 and debuted in September 1997. Since then, tens of thousands of film lovers have experienced a diverse selection of North American-Asian…

Meeting Mel D’Souza: Founder of SILO Entertainment
Mel D’Souza is an Executive Producer, a Creative Producer, and ex-television executive who was born in Bombay, India and raised in Vancouver. He oversees SILO Entertainment, a content development and rights-holding company which was founded…

NFB/imagineNATIVE Digital Project Prize presented in the 2022 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier Program
The National Film Board of Canada VR experience This is Not a Ceremony, written and directed by Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon) had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The winning submission of the NFB/imagineNATIVE Digital…

Empathy through storytelling with Shabnam Rezaei, Big Bad Boo Studios
Big Bad Boo Studios is a premier animation company based in Vancouver, B.C. with offices in New York and Los Angeles that produces Canadian children's content. The studio is no stranger to broadcast deals with leading companies Hulu, Amazon…