instead of the 1,000 real-deal screenings it had planned, I was expecting the move to strictly be a one-off. Yet here we are, celebrating the eighth annual NCFD April 21 once again in a virtual fashion, and with no firm guarantee that next year will be any different.
But despite our locked-down and on-edge circumstances, the past 12 months have delivered some genuinely feel-good developments in our perpetually fraught domestic movie industry. Ahead of NCFD 2021, here are five Canadian film success stories that we should be celebrating – tempered, in typical Canadian fashion, with two issues that homegrown film-lovers should be deeply nervous about.
The domestic industry is many, many, many years behind on diversity – but at least the pandemic has forced some players to put money where their mouths are. Look at the multiple initiatives undertaken by the