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Tracy Wren

Tracy Wren is an award-winning poet, filmmaker and writer.  She lived in Oughterard, Ireland for many years and recently completed an MFA in film at USC. tracywrenfilms.com

Marguerite Pigott will be a featured panelist at the American Film Market 2018

Marguerite Pigott at the American Film Market: Gender Diversity Panel 2018

Marguerite Pigott, Vice President of Outreach and Strategic Initiatives for the Canadian Media Producers Association, will be a featured guest at the American Film Market 2018

Quebec Film and Television Commission returns to the American Film Market

After choosing to not attend the American Film Market in 2016, the QFTC (Quebec Film and Television Commission) is now preparing to follow tradition and maintain a booth at the AFM once again in...

A night at the other Oscars

The Oscar Wilde Awards took place in Santa Monica on Friday, February 27th.  Held at Bad Robot, the production company of J.J. Abrams, the awards were presented to Daisy Ridley, of “Star Wars:...
Oscar Wilde Award winners 2015

Oscar Wilde Awards celebrate Irish culture on the West Coast

In the past year, more Irish natives than ever before have moved to Vancouver, a city of culture, scenic beauty and a mild climate. In fact, the Irish are so welcome that B.C. will now...

Vancouver prepares to shine at American Film Market

Last year, 2013, may have been a lean year for the movie business with film production thin on the ground and some studios facing empty space, but EVP Tim Brown of the Film Division of Breakthrough...

Canada at the American Film Market 2012

From the invention of the game of basketball in 1891 by James Naismith of Toronto to the first SCTV broadcast in Toronto in 1976, Canadians have been out and about, entertaining the world. Canadian...

Irish Americans shine at Academy Awards pre-ceremony, the Oscar Wildes

The green carpet was laid out at Bad Robot production company in Santa Monica, California last Thursday evening for the most prestigious pre-Oscar award ceremony in Hollywood. The Oscar Wildes...

Canadians Honored at Oscar Wilde Awards

In October of 1882, Oscar Wilde arrived by train in New Brunswick to give a lecture on "The practical application of the principals of the Aesthetic Theory to exterior and interior house decorations...

Remembering Sally Menke, the editorial dynamo behind Quentin Tarentino

Editors and students gathered last week at USC to pay tribute to Sally Menke, A.C.E., editor of the iconic Pulp Fiction. During her career, Menke was nominated for two Academy Awards, two Eddie...