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— Your Morning (@YourMorning) March 14, 2019
You may have seen Amanda Brugel on The Handmaid's Tale, Kim's Convenience, Workin' Moms, Orphan Black, Room, and Flashpoint. Her latest role has been as a spokesperson for the new Made | Nous campaign to promote Canadian content.
We first wrote about Made | Nous during our post-Oscars coverage.
If you go to the Made | Nous Web site, you can distinguish between film, TV, and digital content. Brugel mentions the impact of Canadian content in the gaming industry in the interviews she has done on Canadian television.
Brugel also noted in those interviews about the interactive map where you can see where Canadian content was produced throughout Canada. The map includes Canadian films and films from other countries that were made in Canada.
Sandra Oh hosted Saturday Night Live last week on NBC and Global. Oh introduced Tame Impala while wearing a T-shirt with the classic CBC logo.
Most of the U.S. audience might not have noticed but Twitter exploded with love for Oh for putting the CBC logo on display.
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Oh noted in the opening monologue that she is now an American citizen. There was plenty of pokes and fun with her Canadian background. Oh joked with Leslie Jones over "trying to learn a thing or two about tooting my own horn." "Canadians do really well in America. I mean, look at Drake!" Jones replied.
We loved seeing this Canadian Screen Awards promo during Hockey Night in Canada on CBC (thanks to the NHL Center Ice free preview).
Mary Walsh serves as the narrator for the promo, which is mostly Canadian TV as opposed to Canadian film. Having the ceremony on YouTube for those in the United States and elsewhere helps us appreciate Canadian content.
You can find other Canadian commercials and promos on our YouTube page.
Caroline Dhavernas and Karine Vanasse presented together Sunday night. They are good examples of French-Canadian bilingual actors who have crossed over to the American audience.
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I enjoy listening to the Glasner on Film podcast from the CBC's Eli Glasner. He does film reviews mostly on American films.
Glasner did review the Canadian film Firecrackers in his latest podcast. He describes the film as part of a "different kind of storytelling in Canada," a "quiet core" featuring "hard core stories set in quiet places." "Stories that take place in the places in between our cities, in the places outside Montréal and Toronto and Calgary and Vancouver."
Glasner put Werewolf in the same category of "quiet core" as Firecrackers. Unfortunately, I haven't seen either film, but certainly know other Canadian films that fit this category including Mean Dreams and Giant Little Ones.
He also pointed out that this new wave of Canadian films has come at a time when more-established Canadian filmmakers aren't making as many films, leaving room for new filmmakers to be in the spotlight.
Jasmin Mozaffari won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director for Firecrackers on Sunday night.
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Q from CBC Radio One runs a screen panel most weeks on Mondays to talk about current issues in what we watch. This week, the Q screen panel covered the Canadian Screen Awards with host Tom Power and filmmaker Charles Officer and film critic Kiva Reardon.
Power noted that the Junos celebrate Canadian music and the Giller Prize for Canadian literature: "Do you see a future where your average Canadian cares as much about Canadian film?"
Reardon said this comes down to teaching people to love film in the way we talk about literature, taking it seriously.
Officer noted that Canadian film was about building brands for directors, such as David Cronenberg and Spike Lee films. Yes, Cronenberg is Canadian but he has an identity that filmgoers can understand. Atom Egoyan and Xavier Dolan are good examples of Canadian directors that have built a brand.
Both the Glasner podcast and the Q screen panel were great examples of talking about Canadian film, something we would love to do for a living. If we run into more examples, we will share them with our readers.
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photo credit: Made | Nous
photo credit: Saturday Night Live/NBC
video credit: Canadian Screen Awards/CBC
photo credit: Canadian Screen Awards/CBC
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