- A Canadian film, Flutter, won top prize at this year's Tokyo International Anime Fair. It's the first non-Asian film to win the award. The film mixes both digital, ink, and graphite drawings, as well as musical score featuring artists like Feist and Chantal Kreviazuk. Apparently, we'll get to see it in Canada some time in the fall. The film is co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
- Telefilm Canada, the government agency that supports the audiovisual industries, Telefilm, now supports the development of video games.
- Mediacaster, a national industry magazine, has an article discussing all of the various changes Canada's broadcasting regulator, the CRTC, has to deal with in the next little while. The article also features some of the speaking notes of a CRTC official, Scott Hutton, during his testimony before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.
- The Department of Canadian Heritage recently announced it was supporting an initiative at the Ontario College of Art and Design for a "virtual theater and entertainment park for cell phone users in Toronto."
Sunday, March 25, 2007
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Funny, I read just the other day that the French culture ministry (or whatevs they call it) did the same with videogames, asserting that French videogames are part of French national culture. It must be catching.
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