Cinema of Canada

             

  The cinema of that part of Canada where English is prevalent, is intertwined with the cinema of the neighbouring United States. There are also Canadian films which have, obviously, no Canadian identity. For example, Porky’s and Meatballs. Also, there are films which are the outcome of Canadian American co-productions like My Big Fat Greek Wedding and the Saw series.

The main distributers in Canada, are Warner brothers, Fox and Alliance. The total number of fictional movies produced are 65. Seven documentary films have been produced in all. The nation has 2,831 screens in all. Also, there are joint ventures like Canadian American co-productions. Some of the films that belong to such categories are My big fat Greek Wedding and the Saw series. There are many U.S. films which are filmed in Canada. ‘Night at the Museum’ and ‘Final Destination’ fall under such category. There are also American films which are directed by some of the best Candian directors.

                  Canada is a home to several film-studios. One can come across a large number of film-making studios in the Canadian cities – Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. About a thousand Anglophone-Candadian and 600 Francophone-Canadian feature films have been produced or partially produced by the Canadian film industry since 1911. Some of the Canadian directors who are well-known for producing English films are Norman Jewison, Jason Reitman, Paul Haggis and James Cameron, David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin Atom Egoyan, Patricia, Rozema, Sarah Polley Deepa Mehta, Thom Fitzerald, John Greyson Clement Virgo, Allan King, Michael Mc Gowan and Michael Snow. On the other hand, Claude Jutra, Gilles Carle, Denys Arcand, Jean Beudin, Robert Lepage, , Philippe, Falardeau and Michel Brault.

, Denis Villeneuve. Lea Pool, Xavier Dolan fall under the category of French Canada.

 Cameron, wrote and directed the highest and second-highest grossing films. They are ‘Avatar’ and ‘Titanic’.

          Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, Donald Sutherland, Jim Carry and Ryan Gosling are some of the successful Canadian actors.

             James Freer, a farmer from Manitoba, is considered the first Canadian filmmaker. The early 1897 witnessed his documentaries. The first fiction film was Kiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojitway. It was made by Joe Rosenthal in 1903.

            Evangeline is the first Canadian feature film and it was produced by the Canadian Bioscope company in 1913. It was shot in Nova Scotia.

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau was established in Ontario, in 1917. Its aim was to carry out educational work for farmers, school children, factory workers, and other classes.

             John Grierson was a British film critic and film-maker. He played a key role in Canadian film world. He made a meticulous study of the condition of the film production of the government of Canada. His study gave rise to the National Act of 1939. Further, it paved the path to the establishment of National Film board of Canada. It became the agency of the Canadian government. In 1968, the Canadian Film Development Corporation was established. The National Film Board of Canada is famous for its animation and documentary production all over the world. Today, only one-third of its budget is spent on the production of new films. Canada's film industry is nicknamed "Hollywood North" because a big part of it driven by American producers and American distribution.