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Chris Adams, Film, New Media and TV Producer will visit The Cerntre for Creative Communications on Sept. 9 – 10, 2009, speaking with students and faculty from The School of Communications, Media and Design.
Adams is an internationally recognized new media pioneer, entertainment industry executive and social entrepreneur and co-founded Participant Productions in 2004 with Jeff Skoll, [...]

These guys were asked to name the most fascinating (and important) part of the advertising- and marketing-scape. The resounding answer: innovations in media. It’s true—you can no longer separate the creative idea or brand message from the medium. And to that end, we’ve come up with AToMiC. It’s about the people who are bending the [...]

INDUSTRY INITIATIVES – BULLETIN : THE ENTERTAINMENT AND CREATIVE CLUSTER PARTNERSHIPS FUND REMINDER: Pre-Qualification Deadline – Wednesday, September 9, 2009 by 5pm
OMDC has launched a call for applications for The Entertainment and Creative Partnerships Fund, a program of the Ministry of Culture, co-administered by the Ontario Media Development Corporation. The Fund assists Ontario’s Entertainment and [...]

Tate Britain, the home of British art from 1500 to the present, is seeking to appoint a Director to lead the Gallery.
The new Director will succeed Stephen Deuchar, who has been appointed Director of The Art Fund, joining Tate Britain at a time when a major programme of capital development is under way and when [...]

For 480 million people, this is a big deal.
A legal battle has put the future of Skype in jeopardy, according to eBay, which owns the online communications system.  If Skype loses the right to use a key part of its software and can’t create an adequate replacement, “Skype’s business as currently conducted would likely not [...]

Entertainment industry heavyweights Larry Mirkin, Alyse Rosenberg and Sarah Haasz are the latest to jump on board as faculty for the new Children’s Entertainment: writing, production and management program at The Centre for Creative Communications Centennial College.
Mirkin has produced over 200 television programs and has worked on many others as writer or executive story editor, [...]

The moniker film festival is something of a misnomer, considering the expansive nature of film, video and multimedia that has incrementally grown to become a significant feature of this festival and the art world in general. Nevertheless, this ever expanding visual repertoire continues its dissection and critique of the pressing issues of the day, in [...]

The 4th annual Electric Eclectics Festival presents cutting-edge, avant-garde and experimental music by world-renowned musicians, media artists, sound artists and performance artists. The Electric Eclectics Festival takes place in Meaford, Ontario, during the July 31 – August 2 long weekend, with pre-festival exhibitions running July 4 – August 29. Electric Eclectics Festival info is at [...]

Selected by Festival audiences as one of their Top Ten favourites of Hot Docs 2009, Anders Høgsbro Østergaard’s BURMA VJ opens in Toronto on Friday, August 7th at the Royal Cinema.
Kyaw Zaw Wai, spokesperson for the Burmese Temple, will be in attendance for a post-screening Q & A. On Saturday evening, several monks and members [...]

Vancouver, July 29 2009 – Your short film could be part of the sights and sounds of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
CODE, the Cultural Olympiad’s digital edition, is calling for submissions of original concepts for CODE Motion Pictures , a themed strand of short films showcasing human bodies in motion. The selected [...]