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Growing up in Scarborough, Eric Bauza recorded The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show on VHS tapes so he could pause the cartoons and copy the characters into a notepad.
Baba Yaga has heard what people say about her: she's old and wicked, lives in a hut on chicken feet and eats children.
Generations of storytellers have described Baba Yaga as a hideous, child-eating witch who flies through forests in a mortar and lives in a hut on chicken legs.
During rehearsals for Boy Player, director Jonathan Greenway began throwing crumpled paper at Frank Moher while the playwright-performer worked through a scene in which he watches himself in crisis.
Death takes the long way around the stage in Alberta Ballet's Peer Gynt. He has plenty of time to spare, and given the life of the man he's following, he might need it.
A story shared online describes a teacher who takes a student's water bottle to the front of a classroom.
Toronto choreographer Alyssa Martin and her company Rock Bottom Movement are closing Fall for Dance North with a world-premiere dance-theatre work about parenthood.
On September 3, 1897, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that two men had returned to the city after photographing Manitoba's harvest.
When Second City Television premiered on Global on September 21, 1976, its comedians were playing the people who owned, operated and appeared on an imaginary television station.
Laetitia Colombani’s film The Braid had producers in France and Canada. In a May 2022 funding announcement, Telefilm Canada named French companies Moana Films and Curiosa Films alongside Canada’s Forum Films.
In 1913, the Halifax-based Canadian Bioscope Company filmed Evangeline in Nova Scotia, adapting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about the Acadian expulsion.
Netflix’s Newfoundland-set thriller Below has spent two consecutive weeks atop Netflix’s global English-language television chart, generating a reported 38.2 million equivalent full-series views between October 8 and 18. Its 21.2 million views in the second chart week set a new single-week record for a Canadian Netflix original title, according to the streamer.
On September 3, 1897, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that two men had returned to the city after photographing Manitoba's harvest.
Laetitia Colombani’s film The Braid had producers in France and Canada. In a May 2022 funding announcement, Telefilm Canada named French companies Moana Films and Curiosa Films alongside Canada’s Forum Films.
In 1913, the Halifax-based Canadian Bioscope Company filmed Evangeline in Nova Scotia, adapting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about the Acadian expulsion.
Denis Villeneuve's Incendies had one distributor in Canada and another in the United States.
A Canadian film can be listed as a theatrical release even when there are few opportunities to buy a ticket. In a new study of Ontario independent cinemas, exhibitors reported deciding whether to book Canadian films they often had never heard of
An independent Canadian television production company may own copyright in a finished series even when a broadcaster commissions it and a streaming service carries it overseas.
An independent Canadian film can have a finished screenplay, an experienced producer and a detailed budget and still be a long way from starting production.
Canadian television series disappear from streaming services when licensing agreements expire, distribution rights change hands or broadcasters decide to keep programs for their own platforms.
If “movie” means a feature-length dramatic film produced in Canada, the answer is Evangeline, filmed in Nova Scotia in 1913 and released in 1914.
In HBO’s The Last of Us, downtown Calgary stands in for part of post-apocalyptic Boston, Fort Macleod represents Austin, Texas, and the Alberta Legislature Building becomes the Massachusetts State House.
Toronto-based Beverly Valley Productions is developing its first feature film and two comedy series, with all three projects set outside the fictional world that brought YouTube creators Daniel Kipnis and Riya Malik their audience.
The Canada Media Fund says $345.5 million in program funding supported 1,248 audiovisual and interactive digital media projects and 103 industry initiatives in 2025–2026, helping generate $1.93 billion in Canadian production volume.
On Friday, June 19, 2015, Space premiered Killjoys at 9 p.m. The second episode of Dark Matter, which had debuted a week earlier, followed at 10.
Cat Cahill’s Gilbert Girls romance novels take place in a Colorado mountain valley, where young women find work along a newly built railroad and at the fictional Crest Stone Hotel.
Canada already knows how to make science fiction. Over the past 15 years, Canadian producers and broadcasters have put Orphan Black, Killjoys, Dark Matter and Continuum on television, alongside genre series such as Lost Girl and Bitten.
In the summer of 2022, Northern Ontario had a problem created partly by its own success.
On Sept. 17, Canada Council for the Arts Director and CEO Michelle Chawla published an open letter arguing that Canadian arts should be part of the country’s broader conversation about choosing Canadian.
Sterling Point has a Canadian creator. Megan Park created and directed the Prime Video series, which follows 17-year-old Annie Jacobson after she inherits her grandfather’s island in Canada. The story takes her from New York into Ontario cottage country, with Muskoka becoming the setting for much of the series.