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Congratulations to the creators of Dwayne Has Issues and Lupita – the two TV series concepts advancing to phase two of NSI Totally Television, presented by the National Screen Institute in association with Bell Media.

In the second phase of training, Eva Thomas and Darren Anthony (pictured top) and Eva Colmers and Gordie Lucius (pictured bottom) will continue to polish their TV projects with the support of industry mentors.

In addition, a three-day intensive boot camp will be delivered online later this year to provide teams with customized guidance and mentorship as they prepare to attend Content London in December (travel guidelines permitting).

Lupita

Producer Eva Colmers and writer Gordie Lucius (Edmonton, AB)

Dwayne Has Issues

Producer Eva Thomas (Wallaceburg, ON) and writer Darren Anthony (Etobicoke, ON)

NSI Totally Television provides customized, hands-on training for Canadian producer/writer teams to develop story ideas into polished packages to present to buyers in the global marketplace.

The program gets results: The creators of Ethics 101 from 2019 have signed a development contract and both phase two projects from the 2018 edition of the program were picked up by production companies for further development, six series have been produced, five series have been optioned, one project was produced as a feature film and 3,000+ jobs have been created in Canada’s screen industry through NSI Totally Television projects.

NSI Totally Television is made possible by Presenting Sponsor Bell Media; Program Partner Telefilm Canada; and Supporting Sponsors Super Channel, Corus Entertainment and CBC Gem; Provincial Sponsor Provincial Sponsor Creative BC through the Daryl Duke and William Vince Scholarship Fund. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

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The Polaris Music Prize short list of albums will be announced on July 15. Due to COVID-19, and in place of a live gala, Polaris will celebrate nominees with commissioned short films. The films will be packaged together in a special cinematic tribute for broadcast in October.

Filmmakers are invited to apply to create one of these pieces and will receive $10K towards the project.

Polaris is interested in hearing from a diverse group of applicants. They especially encourage applications from all under-represented groups, including women, Black and Indigenous People of Colour (BIPOC), other racialized persons and LGBTQ2+ persons.

See the application form and full details. Deadline is July 10.

The Polaris Music Prize awards $50K to the artist who creates the Canadian Album of the Year, judged solely on artistic merit, without consideration for genre or record sales. Additionally, the nine other nominated acts whose albums make the 2020 shortlist will receive $3K each courtesy of Slaight Music.

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