Greetings and Happy New Year from all of us here at REEL CANADA.
After a busy and productive autumn season for us here, we are hard at work gearing up for many exciting events and projects in the first half of 2009. Later on in this update, I'll be letting you know about some interesting new things happening with this blog in the coming months, and we'll also give you some information about our upcoming REEL CANADA days in Ontario!
November was a busy month here at REEL CANADA. We put on a multi-school festival in Windsor on November the thirteenth and held our first-ever REEL CANADA day in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Our upcoming REEL CANADA days commence with our visit to Glebe C.I. in Ottawa, Ontario on March 13. Following this, we have festival days lined up at Parkdale C.I., Northern Secondary School, R.H. King Academy and Ursula Franklin Academy, all located in Toronto, Ontario. To cap our 2008/2009 festival season off, we will be holding our second annual Cineplex day at (location) on April 15th. For this event, we will be hosting a number of schools from the Toronto area for a day of Canadian cinema on the big screen. We will post further updates on all of these events as the film line-ups become finalized.
In addition to all of our upcoming festival days, we are starting a new project with our blog. In order to capture the spirit of our program, we are inviting students to write reviews of the Canadian films that they have seen through REEL CANADA. They will be posted here to the blog weekly, and will be open to comments and discussion about the films. Our first round of film critics are being sorted out as we speak and we hope to post some student reviews as soon as possible. If you are a REEL CANADA participant from the past, present or future, and wish to submit Canadian film reviews to be included on our blog, please contact me at mark@reelcanada.com for more information. This also goes for any of our REEL CANADA participating teachers who wish to get involved.
We have much to do and much to look forward to. Please check back soon for more news and information, and for the first of our REEL CANADA student film reviews.
Thank you,
Mark and Kat
REEL CANADA
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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