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Making agreements agreeable
BLOGS / TVAttorney Nicole Page examines the issues surrounding the often expensive quest for bulletproof talent agreements and offers tips on how producers and networks can come to terms with sharing the burden.
Sean Buckley on “The New Big”
BLOGS / TVIn a guest blog, Sean Buckley, owner and CEO of Toronto-based Buck Productions, discusses how he embraced and encouraged change via a new business model.
IFM report: Talking truth in Tehran
BLOGS / FILMThe 31st Fajr Film Festival and the 16th Iranian International Film Market (IFM) took place earlier this month in Tehran. TVF International sales exec Harriet Armston-Clarke (pictured) reports on one of the industry’s lesser-known events.
Viewpoint: Oscar’s odds look sweet for “Sugar Man”
BLOGS / FILMAhead of the 85th Academy Awards taking place this Sunday (February 24), realscreen‘s Adam Benzine offers his take on this year’s Best Documentary Feature category, in which Searching for Sugar Man (pictured) looks almost certain to triumph.
TIFF ’12: Polley discusses silence around “Stories”
BLOGS / FILMCanadian director Sarah Polley (pictured) has opened up about her decision not to do any press around the festival launch of her feature doc debut, Stories We Tell, in a blog post featuring significant plot twist spoilers.
Doc community rallies around “Big River Man” director
BLOGS / PEOPLE NEWSThe doc community is rallying around John Maringouin (pictured), attempting to crowdfund US$64,000 to help the Big River Man director treat a potentially fatal tumor.
TIFF ’12 Trailers: “Maxima Culpa,” “Selling Drugs,” “Fidai,” “9.79*”
BLOGS / FILM / SCREENING ROOMWith the majority of docs for the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival having now been unveiled, realscreen rounds-up 13 hotly anticipated TIFF trailers, including provocative teasers for How to Make Money Selling Drugs (pictured) and Mea Maxima Culpa.
Pointed Arrow: The fact-ent frenzy
BLOGS / TVWith U.S. networks increasingly demanding outrageous characters and obscure subcultures, Arrow Media creative director John Smithson (pictured) asks whether producers should be ditching their staples to scour America for the next Pawn Stars.
Realscreen refreshes with new look
BLOGS / Editor's NotesJust in time for Realscreen West, we’ve refreshed the Realscreen brand online and in print. (Pictured: The cover for the May/June 2012 issue, featuring the Realscreen Reality Report)
First look: Animal Planet’s “Too Cute! Baby Sloths”
BLOGS / SCREENING ROOMU.S. net Animal Planet will this Saturday (December 17) premiere Too Cute! Baby Sloths, a special shot in a Costa Rican orphanage for baby sloths, which marks filmmaker Lucy Cooke’s follow-up to her popular online video Meet the Sloths. Check out the ridiculously cute trailer here.
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Realscreen Summit 2013 - Collins Avenue\'s Jeff Collins and LMNO Productions\' Eric Schotz