Does Art Beat Commerce in the Canadian Film Debate?

The Canadian film industry wants to be proud of its exports, but who gets to decide which films make us proud? Maybe our system is a bit limiting.

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Sources:
Brian D. Johnson “English Canadian Films: Why No One Sees Them,” originally published in Maclean’s magazine (April 17, 2006).

Janice Kaye and Charles H. Davis, “‘If it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage:’ Screenwriting, National Specificity, and the English-Canadian Feature Film,” Journal of Screenwriting, Vol. 2 (1) (2010).

Ted Magder, Piers Handling, Peter Morris, “Canadian Film History: 1974 to Present,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, (November 28, 2019).

Tom McSorley, “Critical Mass: Thirty Years of Telefilm Canada” Take One (1999).

Peter Urquhart, “Film and Television: A Success?”, Cultural Industries.ca: Making Sense of Canadian Media in the Digital Age, James Lorimer Ltd. (2012).

Peter Urquhart, Film History/Film Policy: From the Canadian Film Development Corp. to Telefilm Canada” in Self Portraits: The Cinemas of Canada Since Telefilm, Edited by André Loiselle & Tom McSorley, The Canadian Film Institute (2006).

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