Tag: WRITERS

You’re fired! That’s what Hollywood scribes recently told the people who are supposed to find them work.

The recipients of its sixth annual CFC Award for Creative Excellence are the award-winning and dynamic writer-showrunner-executive producer team, Amy and Tassie Cameron of Cameron Pictures.

Canadian writers are making less money than ever — with incomes from writing dropping 78 per cent from 1998, according to a report released Monday by the Writers’ Union of Canada.

Hollywood producer Gavin Polone has always wondered how grueling, 17-hour-day production schedules affect below-the-line workers—the camera crew, makeup artists, craft services people, etc.

Canadian screenwriters were in the spotlight at the 22nd annual WGC Screenwriting Awards gala, held on April 30 at Koerner Hall in Toronto.

You could win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, attend a 10-day writing residency at the Banff Centre and have your work published on CBC Books.

Women make up a huge part of the Mary Kills People production team, including 5 of 6 writers being female, 2 of 3 editors are women, as well as female executives, directors and its lead character.

Writers! Directors! Editors! Producers! Have you applied for the 2018 Cineplex Entertainment Film Program yet?

The winner will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, attend a 10-day writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and have their story published on CBC Books.

TORONTO – January 5, 2018 – Exactly 40 years ago this week the Toronto Star launched its first short story contest. At the time organizers had...