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A War Amps public service announcement, Rebecca and The Roughriders, has won a Gold Award at this year’s WorldFest-Houston competition, along with The War Amps Matteo PSA and longer profile Matteo’s Story.  WorldFest Houston is one of the oldest and largest film and video competitions in the world, with more than 4,500 category entries received from 37 countries in 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal-based visual communications company CBCI Telecom has announced that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit theater award for Cisco Business Video Partner of the Year for Canada. Cisco unveiled the winners April 17 at its annual channel partner conference in San Diego, California. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver Film School is pleased to present this year’s Women in Games Scholarship to Kristina Soltvedt Wiik of Norway. The first of its kind in the world, this scholarship provides full tuition for an aspiring female game designer to VFS’s acclaimed one-year Game Design program. Read the rest of this entry »

Future Shop has announced a record-number of 20 high schools across Canada will be updating their outdated technology thanks to over $500,000 in donations from the company’s Future Generation Tech Lab program. More than 160 schools from coast-to-coast submitted applications for funding in three categories: $10,000; $25,000; and $50,000. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Videogame Awards were handed out in Vancouver Saturday evening, with indie developed game Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP from Capybara Games in Toronto and Eidos-Montreal’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution each taking home five awards. FIFA Soccer 12 from Electronic Arts was the public’s choice for Game of the Year, and NHL 12 from Electronic Arts was named the top selling videogame in Canada. Other individual winners included Margaritaville Online from Exploding Barrel Games, and Assassin’s Creed Revelations and Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012, both from Ubisoft Montreal.  All the awards were for work developed in Canada and released in 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Telefilm Canada’s Executive Director Carolle Brabant was honoured last evening by Canadian Women in Communications (CWC) at its 2012 Annual Awards Gala. Ms. Brabant is a recipient of a CWC 2012 Excellence in Leadership Award. The Awards recognize nationwide leadership excellence and commitment to women’s advancement and equality in the communications and technology industries. This year two leading organizations and eight top executives were spotlighted. Held at Ottawa’s Fairmont Château Laurier, the Gala attracted hundreds of industry and government leaders. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Cinema Editors is honoured to announce the nominees for the 2012 C.C.E. Awards, to be held on May 17th at The Capitol Event Theatre in Toronto. The C.C.E. Awards Gala is the largest event hosted by the organization, focusing on the significance of post-production in cinema. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) announced today the launch of the 2012 CYBF Chairman’s Awards for Best Business, a celebration and recognition of CYBF’s successful young entrepreneurs from across Canada. This year, the CYBF Chairman’s Awards for Best Business will align with the 2nd annual FuEL Awards, a national awards program produced by PROFIT Magazine in association with Impact Entrepreneurship Group. This alliance will allow CYBF entrepreneurs to apply for two high profile and exclusive awards programs with one seamless application. Read the rest of this entry »

Purple Forge, an international development company with a location in Ottawa, and the Green Party of Canada, were awarded four Pollies™ at the annual American Association of Political Consultants awards held in Austin last month for their mobile application developed for the 2011 Canadian federal election campaign. The Pollies™, considered the Oscars of political consulting, are scored and awarded by a blind panel of industry judges chosen from inside the association. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian-produced web series have won 4 out of 10 coveted spots to compete world-wide at the Marseille WebFest in October. This news came as LA WebFest announced top honours and multiple awards for Clutch, a Toronto-based action series by Jonathan Robbins, Out With Dad, an indie soap by Jason Leaver also of Toronto, Hitman 101, an action series produced in B.C., and Divine, also from B.C. Read the rest of this entry »