Publishers & Associations, Productions 2004-2008:
Meisner, de Groot & Associates
Association of Canadian Publishers
Bloomsbury USA
Ontario Media Development Corporation
The Writers' Union of Canada
Brick Books
ECW Press
EDGE Science-Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Greystone
Houghton Mifflin Company
McArthur & Company
McClelland & Stewart
Penguin Group (Canada)
Random House Canada
Knopf Canada
The Secret Mountain
Thomas Allen Publishers
Whitecap Books
White Knight Books
Dr. John Winner
James McCreath
Paul Quarrington
Television Broadcasters 2004-2008:
Access Media (CHUM)
BookTelevision: The Channel
CLT Canadian Learning Television
Rogers Television
CBC ZeD TV
Movieola: The Short Film Channel
TVOntario
BravoFACT
Licensed Broadband Distribution 2008
Chapters Indigo.ca
Showcase.ca
CBC.ca
Movieola.ca
Events & Festivals
BookExpo America
BookExpo Canada
Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Fest
Nickel Independent Film & Video Festival
One Minute Film Festival
Scotiabank Giller Prize
St. John's International Women's Film Festival
South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival
The Word On The Street (Toronto)
WordFest: Banff-Calgary Int’l Writers Fest
Supporters:
Canadian Heritage
Newfoundland & Labrador Film Development
Corporation
Ontario Media Development Corporation
Association for the Export
of Canadian Books (AECB)
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Canadian
Heritage
http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/bpidp/index_e.cfm
The principal objective of the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) is to ensure choice of and access to Canadian-authored books that reflect Canada's cultural diversity and linguistic duality in Canada and abroad. The program seeks to achieve this objective by fostering a strong and viable Canadian book industry that publishes and promotes Canadian-authored books.
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Newfoundland &
Labrador Film Development Corporation
http://www.nlfdc.ca
The mandate of this corporation is to foster and promote the
development and growth of the film and video industry in Newfoundland
and Labrador, and to increase the national and international
visibility of Newfoundland and Labrador as a location.
Ontario Media Development Corporation
http://www.omdc.on.ca
The Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) plays an important role in book publishing, music, interactive digital media, film, magazine publishing, and television industries. Their focus is to build capacity and competitiveness of Ontario's cultural media industry, individually and across the sectors and to provide opportunities that encourage business alliances across the cultural industries.
BookShorts is one of the first six projects to receive support through the OMDC’s Business Innovation Group (BIG) program, Pioneering Content. The innovative use of current or new technology and commercial potential are the key evaluation criteria for Pioneering Content. The OMDC is an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Culture.
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Cassels
Brock & Blackwell LLP
Cassels Brock is a full service law firm in
Toronto which has been providing legal services to Canadian
and international clients for more than 115 years. With more
than 175 lawyers, including a team that practises in French,
the firm is dedicated to the provision of high quality, timely
and innovative legal services.
BookShorts is represented by attorney Stephen
I. Selznick, whose practice is concentrated on corporate and
commercial, with an emphasis on intellectual property; entertainment,
advertising, media and communications; competition, and trade
and technology law, with particular emphasis on their application
to intangible properties.
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