{"id":3173,"date":"2018-03-12T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/03\/12\/women-rule-the-roost-at-the-canadian-screen-awards\/"},"modified":"2018-03-12T19:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:00:58","slug":"women-rule-the-roost-at-the-canadian-screen-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/03\/12\/women-rule-the-roost-at-the-canadian-screen-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Women rule the roost at the Canadian Screen Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Simon Houpt\/ The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Canada is not America, and the Canadian Screen Awards \u2013 as its critics will gleefully tell you \u2013 is certainly not the Oscars. But on Sunday night, the parade of women who took the stage at Toronto\u2019s Sony Centre to claim their CSA statues illustrated that, as Hollywood responds with painful slowness to the demands for more female voices, Canadian filmmakers have already proven that stories created by and about women can be both box-office hits and award-winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Even as the #MeToo movement continues to rattle Hollywood\u2019s power centres, the vast majority of the most prominent films in this month\u2019s Oscars were stories about men created by men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Up here, however, the nominees were starkly different: Five of the seven films in the running for the best-picture CSA were stories about women or girls. Four were written by women; four were directed by women. In the end,\u00a0<i>Maudie<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 a drama about the Nova Scotia folk artist Maudie Lewis \u2013 took home all seven awards for which it was nominated, including best picture, director and original screenplay, all of which went to women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">The television categories were also dominated by stories of women and girls. The rebooted\u00a0<i>Anne of Green Gables<\/i>\u00a0known simply as\u00a0<i>Anne<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 created by a pair of powerhouse Canadian female producers, Moira Walley-Beckett and Miranda de Pencier \u2013 nabbed the best-drama award, while\u00a0<i>Alias Grace<\/i>, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood\u2019s bestseller by screenwriter Sarah Polley and director Mary Harron, won for best limited series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">But while the CSAs reinforced the fact that women\u2019s stories can resonate with a wide audience, on Monday afternoon,\u00a0<i>Maudie<\/i>\u00a0producer Mary Young Leckie reflected on what she believes is the greater significance of her film\u2019s success: It was a rare home-grown box office success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">\u201cI have to say, what was the most important thing about last night is that we got English-Canadian audiences out in droves to see an English-Canadian film,\u201d she said, noting that\u00a0<i>Maudie<\/i>\u2019s box office in Canada approached $3-million. (<i>Maudie<\/i>\u00a0was also the first English-Canadian film set in Canada to win a best-picture CSA, or the award\u2019s predecessor, the Genie, since Paul Gross\u2019s\u00a0<i>Passchendaele<\/i>\u00a0in 2009.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">\u201cThe [Quebec] producers and creators are brilliant filmmakers, and they\u2019re also very fortunate because they\u2019re beloved by their audiences. Because we sit next door to Hollywood, it\u2019s a lot tougher for us to entice our English-Canadian audiences into the theatre, and so the fact that we got them there and they had a wonderful, satisfying, moving experience, I think is amazing, because I think that\u2019s going to open doors for a lot more Canadian filmmakers and Canadian films.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Leckie\u2019s comments serve as a reminder that this country\u2019s film and television industry has been supported from its earliest moments by the federal government to help carve out a space for Canadians to see themselves represented amid the ubiquitous American culture sweeping across the border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Still, Canadian skepticism of the marketability of Canadian stories has been tough to shake. Leckie noted that decades ago, when she was developing a film about the scuttled Avro Arrow fighter jet, Telefilm Canada told her it was prepared to support a TV mini-series, but not a feature, because the agency didn\u2019t believe Canadians would turn up at cinemas to see such a film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">That same skepticism, which marginalized communities and women have faced for decades, is now being shattered. On Sunday evening, actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, who plays a Korean-Canadian shopkeeper in\u00a0<i>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/i>, gave an impassioned acceptance speech explaining the importance of people seeing themselves on screen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"u-wrapper pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-commercial-dfp-ads\">\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0&#8220;Representation matters,\u201d he said. \u201dWhen people see themselves and their communities reflected up on the screens, it is an inspiring and a very powerful moment for them, because it means they\u2019ve been moved from the margins into the forefront, and it gives them a voice and it gives them hope. When you give people voice, other people start listening. And when people start listening, things start to change. 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