Anne Hathaway and Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak announced the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards Feb. 2 playbill.com

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Toronto will be the first North American city to be host of Bollywood’s version of the Oscars in 2011, a clear nod to the increasing pop-culture clout wielded by the region’s large and growing South Asian community.

News of the four-day event, announced in Mumbai Wednesday by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, is a sign of the ethnic broadening of the city’s already solid position as a mainstream cinema powerhouse, observers said.

…They not only consume Bollywood movies and music, but have spawned a satellite film industry of their own, complete with acting classes and costume shops in the suburbs west of the city.

…The credibility of the International Indian Film Academy Awards, which is expected to draw 500 top players in Indian film, 40,000 visitors to Toronto and a global television audience of more than 350 million, should provide a substantial push toward that goal.

See entire article on The Globe and Mail.

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The Canadian Film Centre has launched the North-South Marketplace to promote US ties.

The Copyright Collective Of Canada is supporting the venture, which will use Canadian Film Centre community of filmmakers and industry professionals to broker creative, business exchanges and development assistance between Canadian talent and industry professionals in the United States.

An advisory board of Canadian and US production and studio executives will be on hand to offer guidance. As part of the CFC North-South Marketplace, online contest The Reel Challenge: Make Your Own Movie will launch in early December.

Canadian filmmakers will be encouraged to submit a film spot that addresses the importance of content protection in a compelling way. The winner will receive a $10,000 prize and second and third placed entries will each collect $2,500.

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For the past 3 years, actresses giving Oscar Award acceptance speeches have been sprinkled foreign accents. And what does this trend mean for American actresses? See the article in today’s Variety.

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Toronto Film Festival starts today, the 10th of September.

The 34th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is considered one of the most influential film festivals in the world today. Running from September 10th to 19th, this annual celebration of cinema and culture attracts some of the most recognized actors, directors, executives and critics from around the globe.

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Whether you are acting in Toronto or Vancouver, the two major Film, TV and Theatre markets for Canadian actors following is an insightful book for Canadian Actors,

“Acting Professionally” Raw Facts about Careers in Acting offers practical information on how to enter the show business as an actor, and is now completely updated, It supplies key factual material from how the business is run to preparing your resume, and deals with career opportunities from Hollywood to voiceovers. Authors are Robert Cohen and James Calleri.

This is an essential handbook for anyone interested in a career in acting. No matter if you are in the US, UK, Australia, the EU or any other market where a person can have a career as an actor this new book should be on top of your list.

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About the authors from the publishers, Palgrave Macmillan….

ROBERT COHEN is the founding chair of the drama department at the University of California, Irvine, where he now serves as Clare Trevor Professor of Drama. He is author of the defining text Acting Power, and many other theatre books including Acting One, Advanced Acting, Acting in Shakespeare and Creative Play Direction. In 1999 he received the Career Achievement Award for Education from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. He is a veteran stage director for Shakespeare festivals in the U.S. and abroad. JAMES CALLERI is President of Calleri Casting, and one of the most prominent casting directors in America. His casting credits include Broadway productions of Chicago, 33 Variations, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Dead. His TV credits include Lipstick Jungle, Monk, Ed and Hope & Faith. He has been awarded five Artios Awards for outstanding achievement in casting, and is a member of the Casting Society of America.

Toronto — A score of independent Canadian artists and filmmakers were honoured this weekend at the 22nd Annual Images Festival in Toronto.

Award winners included video artist Steve Reinke of Toronto (who is now living in Chicago), who took home the grand prize for best Canadian media artwork; Toronto’s Joshua Bonnetta, awarded the National Film Board of Canada Award for best emerging or mid-career filmmaker, and Amy Bodman of Toronto, for excellence and innovation in the visual realization of a work.

The Tom Berner Award went to author and filmmaker Mike Hoolboom for his outstanding support of independent filmmaking in Toronto…globeandmail reports.

…Previous AOF Award winners have included Michael Madsen, Bill
Duke, John Savage and David Carradine.

…Coates has worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood;
Kevin Costner, Robert Duval, Jeff Goldblum and many others.

…Action On Film Head Programmer and Studio Executive Alan Bailey
said, “No production big or small can be successful without an actor
such as Kim Coates. Character actors are the bread and butter of any
project, the bedrock on which all other performance are built.”

Please read the complete Press Release at: www.prlog.org

The film has won 19 international awards and has screened at festivals worldwide.

Parfit and the film’s producer, Suzanne Chisholm are currently in talks with a Hollywood studio about a possible U.S. theatrical release.

…Parfit spoke to the National Post about why he and audiences around the world fell in love with Luna, the challenges of making a movie when you’re the “opposite of big studio filmmakers,” and what it was about Luna that changed their lives.

For the complete interview please visit the website at: network.nationalpost.com

…The Female Eye Film Festival will pay tribute to Patricia Rozema by screening a compilation of her works at the Rainbow Cinemas Market Square.

Please visit the website for the complete article at: www.northernstars.ca