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At a commemorative breakfast in Los Angeles yesterday morning, Telefilm Canada Executive Director Carolle Brabant was officially honoured as one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “13 Female Power-Players Who Rule the World“, the newly created sidebar for the trade publication’s annual Top 100 Power Women in Entertainment list. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Women in Entertainment, which has recognized in the past industry heavyweights such as Disney’s Anne Sweeney, Sony’s Amy Pascal, OWN’s Oprah Winfrey, NBCU’s Bonnie Hammer and A&E Network’s Abbe Raven. Ms. Brabant is the only Canadian industry player selected for 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

G4’s “X-Play” has announced the nominees for the ninth annual “X-Play Best of 2011 Awards” as selected by G4’s team of gaming experts.  In what will be remembered as one of the biggest years to date for the video game industry, the onslaught of shooters, sequels and sci-fi epics has lead to the culmination of 25 award categories including Best Shooter, Best Writing, and Best Animation.  Read the rest of this entry »

The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) have announced the Platinum Sponsorship of ProSiebenSat.1 Games, the second largest media group in Europe. As well as supporting the Awards as a sponsor, ProSiebenSat.1 Games will give IMGA winners access to their expertise in the field of integrated communications through a package of media exposure worth up to one million euros. Read the rest of this entry »

WinMagic^®, a global innovator in disk encryption, has been named the Encryption Innovator of the year by SC Magazine. The December, “Innovator,” issue recognizes companies that have the vision, imagination and creative management that reflects leadership in the security industry. Read the rest of this entry »

The Women’s Executive Network (WXN) has announced the recipients of 2011 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards, celebrating the professional achievements of women across the country. Co-presented by Scotiabank and KPMG, Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards has become one of Canada’s most recognizable honours and is bestowed on Canada’s highest achieving female leaders in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. To date, 584 women across the country have received this distinction, including 83 women who have gone on to be inducted into Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Hall of Fame. Read the rest of this entry »

Two filmmakers with a passion for history have revealed astonishing details about the history of Quebec through home movies made in the 1920’s to the 1980’s. This collective memory project, assembled from a collection of 20,000 reels rescued from barns, basements and attics all over the province, gives Canadians an in-depth perspective of the history of Quebec. “J’ai la mémoire qui tourne” is an unprecedented project that has woven together family films and videos that have been broadcast on television and on a vast website featuring viewer-contributed content and a robust set of educational resources. Read the rest of this entry »

The Shaw Rocket Fund is pleased to announce that Toronto-based Temple Street Productions has won the $50,000 Shaw Rocket Prize for Wingin’ It, as voted by Canadian children in every province. A staple for Family Channel viewers, the show also airs on Disney XD Canada and is distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

The Quebecor Fund Board of Directors is pleased to announce the names of the seven production companies that will receive 23rd-round funding under its Main Television Production Assistance Program (MPAP), following October 1, 2011 submissions. In this round, Quebecor Fund will disburse a total of $2,709,092 to the following production companies: Read the rest of this entry »

Thirty-four-year-old Tara Kelly, Founder and President of SPLICE Software Incorporated, has become the Western Finalist in the 2011 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award for Start-Up Companies. In less than five years, this Calgary-born mother of two took a revolutionary concept – personalized human voice messaging – and turned it into a million dollar company and international leader in the unified communications field. Read the rest of this entry »

cDemo Mobile Solutions is pleased to announce that its “Mobile Inspector” (Mi) App was named a finalist in two categories for the “2011 Mashable Awards”in the Technology Core Category. Mobile Inspector was chosen amongst hundreds of thousands of nominations and is a finalist for both “Most Useful Mobile App” and “Most Innovative Mobile App”. Read the rest of this entry »