In our latest issue of Reel West Magazine:

January - February 2010:

16 URBAN DEVELOPMENT
How do you follow up the most successful comedy in Canadian history? Brent Butt moved from rural Saskatchewan and Corner Gas to a publishing house in Vancouver and Hiccups, which stars Nancy Robertson as a children’s author with anger issues. He says that
although the show is more urban than his fans might have expected, he believes they will make the journey with him from the prairies to the coast.
20 prairie memoir
Karen Lam combined a knack for writing suspense thrillers with memories of growing up on the isolated Manitoba prairie to create a screenplay about a woman whose lonely life in a small prairie town leads to an obsession. To make Stained, she brought Vancouver and
Saskatoon production houses to a Saskatchewan village that fit her screenplay to a tee.
22 IN PURSUIT OF THE CARNIVORE
A lmost eight years after Vancouver-based producer Trish Dolman met radio personality and actress Sook-Yin Lee, Year of the Carnivore, a film Dolman produced and Lee directed
snagged the lead-off spot at the Toronto International Film Festival’s prestigious Canada First! section. In her diary, Dolman takes a journey back to the beginning of their relationship and charts how an idea became a movie.
24 2009 Wrap
It didn’t take too long for the US economic downturn to affect western Canada’s film and television industries. All four provinces lost support from US production companies as the year progressed and Quebec, Ontario and several US states made an effort to fill the needs
of companies trying to keep their costs down by changing their approach to tax credits.

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