Hallmark Movies and the Canadian Film Industry | Beyond the Walls

This program happened live on December 14, 2020.

Hallmark movies are a familiar, fun, and formulaic part of many people’s holiday viewing habits. Did you know most of them are also Canadian? Learn more about the role Hallmark movies play in Canada’s entertainment industries – and why we can’t even get the Hallmark Channel here in the first place!

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Andrea Braithwaite is an associate teaching professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University. She specializes in crime stories across pop culture and is part of a research team investigating Canadian crime film, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.