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Scythia Films‘ Daniel Bekerman (NSI Features First) will be part of a distribution panel discussion at the upcoming Pendance Film Festival along with Lauren Howes (Canadian Centre for Distribution) and Katarina Gligorijevic (Canada Film Day) on February 23.

Other festival panels include making and financing a short film, and how to write strong female roles.

The festival lineup includes the latest feature films by directors Werner Herzog, Ani Simon-Kennedy, James Sweeny, Mira Fornay, Barbara Vekaric, Johannes Nyholm, Shola Amoo and others. And the short film lineup includes several Canadian films along with some of the best shorts of 2019 such as the student Academy Award®-winning Bonobo by Zoel Aeschbacher.

Pendance Film Festival takes place from February 20 to 23 at TIFF Bell Lightbox and AGO’s Jackman Hall.

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Production is underway on the second season of CBC Gem original tween action-adventure series Detention Adventure from Joe Kicak (NSI Drama Prize), Ryan West (NSI Features First) and Lauren Corber (NSI Totally Television). Season one is available to stream on CBC Gem.

Filming in the Greater Toronto Area will continue until mid-February. Upon its initial launch in spring 2019, Detention Adventure was CBC’s first original kids scripted series for CBC Gem. Season two is again directed by showrunner Joe Kicak and will be available to stream on-demand via CBC Gem later in 2020.

In season two, the Detention Adventure crew search the historically rich town of Brantford for the lost fortune of its wealthiest former resident, Ignatius Cockshutt.

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