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Canada s documentary filmmaking community is up in arms as one of the nation s top commissioning editors, The Docume
stanley cup ntary Channel s programming director Michael Burns, has been let go.Driving the controversy is the role of national broadcaster CBC in the firing. The CBC purchased majority control of The Documentary Channel having given assur
stanley cup ances that the status quo would hold at the specialty broadcaster.The National Film Board of Canada and the Documentary Association of Canada were intervenors regarding the takeover. According to a report in the Globe and Mail, Burns and his second in command, Sarah Whitehouse, were terminated two days before the official transfer.Burns is revered as a champion of auteur-driven feature-length documentaries. He commissioned Jennifer Baichwal s critically-acclaimed Manufactured Landscapes, which screened last year at TIFF, and Guy Maddin s My Winnipeg, which world premiered at TIFF on Friday. In introducing Friday s screening, TIFFG CEO and festival co-director Piers Handling singled out Burns as the visionary behind the film and, without making direct comment on the firing, suggested his absence will be the Canadian industry s loss.Burns original concept was to commission Canadian directors to document their home-town or favourite city.TopicsAmericasTorontoUnited States No comments
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stanley romania t Blank Pictures has secured sequel rights to Django Lives, the sequel to the Spaghetti Western Django that made an international star of Franco Nero.Joe DAugustine will direct Nero and a nascent cast that includes Mark Boone Junior and Noah Segan. The producers are out to the female lead.Eric Zaldivar and Mike Malloy co-wrote the screenplay and Carolyn Pfeiffer and David Hollander are producing.Nero pictured in Django Unchained will reprise the role of Django, who by now has found work as a film consultant in 1915 Hollywood and fights back when he falls foul of racketeers.Louis Black will serve as executive producer and the producers are weighing up international co-production and financing opportunities.DAugustine worked in the editorial department on four Quentin Tarantino
stanley us features including Inglorious Bastards and Kill Bill and edited The Man With The Iron Fists.TopicsProductionUnited States No comments Related articles News MBS Group closes deal to manage Saudi Arabias AlUla Studios 2025-05-07T08:52:00Z By Michael Rosser US-based The M
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