The Lindalee Tracey Award honours an emerging Canadian filmmaker with a passionate point of view, a strong sense of social justice, and a sense of humour.

Winners will receive $5,000 in cash from the Lindalee Fund, $5,000 worth of equipment rental from SIM Video International, as well as a beautiful hand-blown glass sculpture commissioned to honour Lindalee.

Point of View magazine recently spoke with the internationally renowned transmedia expert Anita Ondine about the challenges and opportunities of transmedia. Ondine is in Toronto this week to headline Merging Media TO on January 19 to 20 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

There is an undeniably sinister quality to the apparently coordinated campaign of harassment currently under way against the CBC. Were it just occasional sniping from the Tory backbench, were it simply the Quebecor/Sun Media empire beating its favourite hobby horse, were the National Citizens Coalition merely on one of its crusades—were it even all three together—you might call it business as usual.

The Alter-Cine Foundation, established in memory of Producer/director Yvan Patry, has announced its modest grants to filmmakers in Southern countries for 2011.

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