Canadian Academy and other organizations champion Cancon through various campaigns
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Actors Shamier Anderson, left to right, Devery Jacobs and Simu Liu in the Seek More campaign from the industry advocacy group Made/Nous, are shown in this undated handout image, which aims to inspire Canadians to look for homegrown "content and creators from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities." THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-MADE | NOUS
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TORONTO – The pandemic-era challenges of last month’s Oscars struck a chord with Beth Janson, head of the Canadian Screen Awards academy, and not just on a planning level.
“It was so interesting for me to see the Oscars deal with what the Canadian Screen Awards and the Genies before that dealt with for our entire existence, which was so many people haven’t seen the films because theatres were closed and traditional distribution plans were disrupted, festivals weren’t showing films,” says Janson, CEO of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.