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Remember this? Wouldnt it be nice to go back to it? Every January, I write a movie trends piece laying out my expectations for the year ahead in film and television: what trends I expect to see, where the industry needs to improve, what we can expect to change and what’s likely to stay the same. Does that even apply in 2021? Here’s the one I wrote last year, before the pandemic derailed literally every aspect of the entertainment industry and rendered all of these things theoretical. The on...

By Niamh ODonoghue

John Mangru With his hyper-feminine designs, which bring silhouette and form to the fore, stylist John Mangru — National College of Art and Design’s graduate class of 2020 — is determined to rewrite the codes of modern dressing. Just take a look at the emerging designer’s Instagram account, where you’ll find a smorgasbord of visual goodies — most notable are Mangru’s recognisable handmade corsets — in a fizzy colour palette of fire-engine red, zingy neon green and candyfloss pi...

2 cats, falcon chicks and a donkey: Hamiltons top animal stories of 2020 COVID-19 was undoubtedly the biggest story of the year, but we also had some interesting stories involving animals. Social Sharing ‘Were just delighted weve got them,’ says Pat Baker, a senior monitor with Hamilton Falconwatch CBC News · Posted: Jan 01, 2021 11:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 1 Hobbs the cat was found this week after being missing for nearly a decade(Submitted by LCHSAC) COVID-19 was undoubtedly th...

17/12/2020 - An excellent undercover documentary investigating the world of illegal logging and international timber trafficking "It’s something of a tragedy that we’re forced to become accomplices to such a serious crime …  Just because we want to buy wooden flooring." The plundering of natural resources which is destabilising the planet and posing a long-term threat to its balance (at an ever-increasing rate), all in the name of a profit, is an open secret. But it’s nonetheless neces...

The unbearable heaviness of things. TWITTER Documentary-maker Judith Helfand puts herself front and center once again with this sort of sequel to A Healthy Baby Girl and Blue Vinyl. New York City-based filmmaker Judith Helfand broke through as a filmmaker in 1997 with a highly personal documentary, A Healthy Baby Girl. This multilayered essay on maternity, medical negligence and guilt, among many other things, explored how her mother Florences use of a drug to prevent miscarriage led to Judith...

Call it 2020 vision. As we do when a year comes to a close, Realscreen is offering a look back at the major stories impacting the unscripted and non-fiction content industry over the course of the past 12 months. This year, of course, offered more than its share of unprecedented challenges. Still, as you’ll see in these recaps, the industry met them with innovation and dedication, and continues to do so as 2021 approaches. For our first look back at 2020, we examine the impact of the coronavi...

Posted: Friday, December 11, 2020 10:39 An award-winning Canadian documentary about efforts to save from destruction the remnants of Afghanistan’s cinematic heritage begins its online theatrical run today in Montreal and Vancouver. Afghan-Canadian director Ariel Nasr’s acclaimed feature documentary The Forbidden Reel (Loaded Pictures/National Film Board of Canada) is being presented online by three Canadian cinemas – Cinéma du Parc and Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, and Vancity The...

Energy center in houston, taking selfies and serving hot docs. we have coverage on all of this. the meteorologist adam is monitoring the next potential threat in the atlantic. madison beaumont, texas where fema is still conducting search and rescue missions. we begin with peter clive with the energy center in houston. >> as a second trip to the in packs zone has went on, the president has had a chance to thank some service members who braved some of the possible conditions to save lives over the...

Permission to seek and obtain the content from these e-mails. that was the tip thauf they did not have authority to read the e-mails. >> you and i both know from these kind of cases, while that is true and lawyerly, it is possible sometimes that investigators obtain one or more damning documents, what in inquiries are sometimes called hot docs, and that leads them with probable cause to get the warrant. they have something. if you were saying your reporting is finding not only do they not have s...