Canada is updating its rules on promoting Canadian content. One idea? Make data streaming of Canadian shows free. A problem? It would subvert notions of net neutrality…
Tag: 05.10.17
Three Major Toronto Performing Arts Theatres Have Merged. To What Advantage?
The goal is to give the merged theatres more clout in booking live stage events, no matter what producers are looking for in terms of location and audience capacity for the shows they want to bring to Toronto.
Writers’ Union Of Canada In Disarray After Controversial Editorial On Cultural Appropriation
Write Magazine editor Hal Niedzviecki wrote that CanLit was “exhaustingly white and middle-class” because its producers are generally so and people tend to write what they know. “I say: Write what you don’t know. Get outside your own head. Relentlessly explore the lives of people who aren’t like you … Win the Appropriation Prize.” Some people were enraged, and the fallout was swift: WUC issued an apology, a board member resigned, TWUC’s Equity Task Force issued a list of demands – and Mr. Niedzviecki left his position.
The End Of Art? (An Interesting Existential Debate)
When these philosophers claim that art has ended, they are not saying that there will be no new artworks. Their claim is quite different. They are telling us that art has some kind of goal, or line of development, which has been completed; plenty more will happen in art, but there is nothing left to achieve.
Cannes Film Festival Changes Competition Rules (And They’re Looking At You, Netflix)
“Facing pressure from French theater owners upset that Netflix films would go straight to streaming, the Cannes Film Festival said Wednesday that it would change its rules to require all future competition films to commit to distribution in French movie theaters.”
How Americans Prefer Watching TV (Hint: It’s Still Big Screens)
Most major platforms (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc) have been inking original content deals with TV shows, but so far; none have officially rolled out a TV video experience as unique to mobile as Snapchat, which includes vertical viewing, fast-paced production cues and tap-to-swipe navigation through scenes.
How P.T. Barnum Helped Support – Save, Even – The Nascent Animal-Rights Movement
The showman ultimately became a good friend and supporter of his one-time adversary, the founder of the ASPCA – and Barnum taught him some crucial points of public relations, without which the movement might have died.
Founder-Director Of Silicon Valley’s Flagship Theater Company To Step Down After 50 Years
“[Robert] Kelley built TheatreWorks from a single scrappy youth theater production, Popcorn, to a community theater, then to a semiprofessional company, then to a major regional theater with an $8 million budget, 40 full-time staff members and 8,000 subscribers.”
Producers Win Lawsuit Over Broadway’s ‘Rebecca’ Fiasco, But They Don’t Get Much In Damages
It wasn’t exactly an insult from the jury of the one-dollar-in-damages type, but after a strange trial about an even stranger case of fraud, the plaintiffs were awarded less than 1% of the amount they sought.
Israel’s State Broadcaster Shut Down By Netanyahu Gov’t – With One Hour’s Notice
The end of the Israel Broadcasting Authority was not a total surprise: the plan, several years in the making and legislating, was to smoothly hand over the IBA’s radio and television stations next Monday (May 15) to the newly-created Israel Broadcasting Corporation (officially named Kan in Hebrew). But a decision was made – nobody’s saying by whom – late Tuesday to close the IBA immediately. Staffers on the country’s flagship TV news broadcast had to go on the air and announce that the show was cancelled and they had lost their jobs.