The 2010 edition of the Worldwide Short Film Festival wraps up today and the award winners (with the exception of the Audience Award winner, which comes later tonight) were announced at the closing picnic - where local post-rock act Old World Vulture performed and unveiled a slew of impressive new material - earlier this afternoon. And they are:
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The Bravo!Fact Award for Best Canadian Short and a cash prize of $5,000 was captured by director Jean Malek for the visually arresting Les Poissons (Fishes) .
Special Mention goes to Theodore Ushev's Lipsett Diaries (Les Journaux De Lipsett) a technical masterpiece that transcends genres.
J.B. Sugar received The Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker and a cash prize of $5,000 for his documentary Wood If.
The Deluxe Award for Best Live Action Short was awarded to Hamy Ramezan (Finland) for Over The Fence (Viiko...
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The Bravo!Fact Award for Best Canadian Short and a cash prize of $5,000 was captured by director Jean Malek for the visually arresting Les Poissons (Fishes) .
Special Mention goes to Theodore Ushev's Lipsett Diaries (Les Journaux De Lipsett) a technical masterpiece that transcends genres.
J.B. Sugar received The Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker and a cash prize of $5,000 for his documentary Wood If.
The Deluxe Award for Best Live Action Short was awarded to Hamy Ramezan (Finland) for Over The Fence (Viiko...
- 6/6/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Toronto -- Lionsgate's board of directors has unanimously rejected activist shareholder Carl Icahn's unsolicited tender offer as "financially inadequate and coercive," opening the way for stepped-up battle for control of the indie studio.
"The board strongly recommends that Lionsgate shareholders not tender their shares into the Icahn Group offer," Vancouver-based Lionsgate said Friday in response to Icahn's March 1 bid to buy up to 13.2 million shares of the indie studio at $6 each to take his investment from 18.9% to 29.9%.
To fend Icahn off, Lionsgate said it will adopt a "poison-pill" shareholder rights plan that will see one share purchase right issued for each outstanding common share as of March 22.
Also after consulting with its financial and legal advisers, Lionsgate said in a schedule 14D-9 regulatory filing said Icahn's bid for greater control over the studio's boardroom threatened the company's long-term growth plans.
Should it acquire a 29.9% stake in Lionsgate, the Icahn...
"The board strongly recommends that Lionsgate shareholders not tender their shares into the Icahn Group offer," Vancouver-based Lionsgate said Friday in response to Icahn's March 1 bid to buy up to 13.2 million shares of the indie studio at $6 each to take his investment from 18.9% to 29.9%.
To fend Icahn off, Lionsgate said it will adopt a "poison-pill" shareholder rights plan that will see one share purchase right issued for each outstanding common share as of March 22.
Also after consulting with its financial and legal advisers, Lionsgate said in a schedule 14D-9 regulatory filing said Icahn's bid for greater control over the studio's boardroom threatened the company's long-term growth plans.
Should it acquire a 29.9% stake in Lionsgate, the Icahn...
- 3/12/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Toronto -- Lionsgate signaled that future acquisitions could be in the offing Monday as it unveiled a five-year, $340 million revolving credit facility with JPMorgan and Wachovia.
The new financing, which replaces a $215 million JPMorgan credit facility and can be increased to $500 million, will fund "potential strategic opportunities that may arise," Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns said.
Vancouver-based Lionsgate, which has $371 million in cash on hand and no bank debt, has spent $150 million over the past three years in acquiring U.K.'s Redbus Film Distributors, the Debmar-Mercury TV syndication business and indie studio Mandate Pictures.
Lionsgate also is investing in digital firms, most recently with Break.com and the launch of FEARNet, with partners Sony and Comcast. It also plans to launch a premium TV service with Viacom, Paramount Pictures and MGM.
The JPMorgan and Wachovia credit facility was negotiated for Lionsgate by Burns, Cfo Jim Keegan and executive vp business and legal affairs James Gladstone.
Legal advisers Morgan Lewis & Bockius acted on behalf of JPMorgan and Jim Russell of Heenan Blaikie for Lionsgate.
The new financing, which replaces a $215 million JPMorgan credit facility and can be increased to $500 million, will fund "potential strategic opportunities that may arise," Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns said.
Vancouver-based Lionsgate, which has $371 million in cash on hand and no bank debt, has spent $150 million over the past three years in acquiring U.K.'s Redbus Film Distributors, the Debmar-Mercury TV syndication business and indie studio Mandate Pictures.
Lionsgate also is investing in digital firms, most recently with Break.com and the launch of FEARNet, with partners Sony and Comcast. It also plans to launch a premium TV service with Viacom, Paramount Pictures and MGM.
The JPMorgan and Wachovia credit facility was negotiated for Lionsgate by Burns, Cfo Jim Keegan and executive vp business and legal affairs James Gladstone.
Legal advisers Morgan Lewis & Bockius acted on behalf of JPMorgan and Jim Russell of Heenan Blaikie for Lionsgate.
- 7/28/2008
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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