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PlaybackCinemaCBC/Radio-Canada receives $300 million in federal budget The budget includes plans to spend $4 billion for Canadian arts and culture over the next five years.

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PlaybackCinemaCBC launches cross-platform ‘Money’ programming initiative CBC Money will see the pubcaster develop and commission original content related to personal finance and money matters.

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PlaybackCinemaBell Media sees ad, subscriber revenue uptick in Q3 Bell Media saw a 19.9% growth in digital revenue, according to the latest quarterly report from parentco BCE.

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PlaybackCinemaTyson Media launches pet-focused channel on YouTube The Vancouver-based prodco is in post-production on the channel's premiere game show series.

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PlaybackCinemaHighballTV, Hitsby roll on romantasy romcom in Ontario Romantasy & Ruin is directed by HighballTV founders Melissa D’Agostino and Matt Campagna.

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PlaybackCinemaSyndicado, TVFI sign 300-hour strong distribution agreement The deal includes the Singapore-shot vertical reality series Supermodel Me .

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PlaybackCinemaTwo Canadian features to world premiere at Red Nation The 31st Red Nation International Film Festival will feature 29 Canadian projects from Indigenous filmmakers.

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PlaybackCinemaTribunal rules Jason Cloth committed securities fraud The Capital Markets Tribunal found that the Canadian film financier diverted millions in investor funding to undisclosed payments.

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PlaybackCinemaNational Film Board hires head of Indigenous programming Former ISO director Jean-François Desmarais O'Bomsawin will oversee all Indigenous-led productions and Indigenous programs, partnerships and initiatives.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo