Leading the TV nominees – which include Television Series, Movies for Television and Mini-Series – is North of North, which garnered nominations for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series for Danis Goulet, Best Production Design – Comedy or Family Series for Andrew Berry, Best Picture Editing – Comedy or Family Series for Marianna Khoury & Sam Thomson, and Best Sound Editing – Comedy or Family Series  for Mark Dejczakiwskyj, Ed Douglas, Brent Pickett, Jean Bot, Rob Hegedus. Other series with multiple nominations include The Handmaid’s Tale, Dino Dex, The Office Movers, Cross, Ruby and the Well, Bet, Children Ruin Everything, in addition to TV movie If I Go Missing.

Nominations for Feature Film, Documentary and Short Film as well as the short-list for the Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award, will be released following the DGC Awards juries on Sept. 13.

Find the full list of nominees here:

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMATIC SERIES

Jean-François Asselin – Plan B, Episode 6

Adam Kane – Billy the Kid, A Debt Collected

T.J. Scott – Saint-Pierre, Queen Bee

Alba Gil – Sight Unseen, Family Matters

Alexandra La Roche – House of David, The Song of Moses

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY SERIES

Alyson Richards – Children Ruin Everything, Sleepovers

Danis Goulet – North of North, Bad Influences

Zoe Hopkins – Small Achievable Goals, Good Sex

Sebastian Cluer – The Office Movers, Trini-T Moving

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FAMILY SERIES

Jacquie Gould – Bet, First Blood

Samantha Wan – Gangnam Project, Bye, Bye, Bye

Michelle Morgan – Heartland, Fork in the Road

J.J. Johnson – Jane, Pan troglodytes

Felipe Rodriguez – Ruby and the Well, I Wish I Could Land a Sweet Deal

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES

Bronwen Hughes – So Long, Marianne (So Long, Leonard)

Danishka Esterhazy – Sniper: The Last Stand

Ryan Landels – Sugarplummed

Felipe Rodriguez – Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story

Alicia K. Harris – I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – DRAMATIC SERIES & MINI-SERIES

Élisabeth Williams – The Handmaid’s Tale, Exodus

Jennifer Morden – Black Mirror, Common People

Elisa Sauvé – Cross, The Good Book

Chad Krowchuk – House of David, The Song of Moses

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES

Andrew Berry – North of North, Top of the World

Shayne Fox – What We Do in the Shadows, Headhunting

Diana Magnus – The Z-Suite, In with the New

Shayne Fox – Overcompensating, Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

Brian Verhoog – The Office Movers, Familia

BEST PICTURE EDITING – DRAMATIC SERIES

Stephen Philipson – Long Bright River, Blind Spot

Aaron Marshall – The Handmaid’s Tale, Exodus

Roslyn Kalloo – Cross, Hero Complex

Maxyme Tremblay – From, When We Go

Bridget Durnford – Dark Winds, Náá’tsoh (Big Eyes)

BEST PICTURE EDITING – MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND MINI-SERIES

David Trevail – Sniper: The Last Stand

Aren Hansen – ‘Twas the Date Before Christmas

Julia Blua & Pete Watson – Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story

Jason Irvine – The Wish Swap

David Cain – If I Go Missing                       

BEST PICTURE EDITING – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES

Marianna Khoury & Sam Thomson – North of North, Top of the World

Mike Fly – Children Ruin Everything, Feelings

Pauline Decroix – Son of a Critch, Happy 1990

Kyle Martin – Shoresy, Brooks Barrelmen

Heath Fashina – Dino Dex, Super Dinos 

BEST SOUND EDITING – DRAMATIC SERIES

Joseph Bracciale, Dashen Naidoo, Jack Madigan, Kelly McGahey, Kirk Starkey, Josh Brown – Motorheads, Pilot

Adam Stein, Brent Pickett, Kelly McGahey, Ryan Allam, Ayaz Kamani – From, Shatter

Jane Tattersall, Brennan Mercer, David McCallum, Krystin Hunter, Dustin Harris, David Caporale, Nadya Hanlon, Abby Austria – The Handmaid’s Tale, Execution

Dustin Harris, Nathan Robitaille, Krystin Hunter, Craig MacLellan, Spencer Clerk – Silo, Into the Fire

Brent Pickett, Robert Warchol, Jean Bot, Joe Mancuso – Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, Tango Romeo

BEST SOUND EDITING – MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES

Dave Johnson, Janice Ierulli, Kevin Banks, Mark Shnuriwsky, Matthew Hussey, Sue Fawcett – Wynonna Earp: Vengeance

Bruce Fleming, Steven Blair – If I Go Missing

Raiza Rodrigues – The Killer is Calling

Raiza Rodrigues, Ryan Birnberg – A Kidnapping in Amish Country

Bruce Fleming, Deanna Marano – A Season to Remember                

BEST SOUND EDITING – COMEDY OR FAMILY SERIES

Mark Dejczakiwskyj, Ed Douglas, Brent Pickett, Jean Bot, Rob Hegedus – North of North, Top of the World

John Loranger, Matthew Hussey, Scott Donald, Sue Fawcett, Abigail Neale – Bet, Game On

Dave Johnson, Mark Shnuriwsky, Janice Ierulli, Dave Fritz, Sue Fawcett – Ruby and the Well, I Wish I Could Land a Sweet Deal

Kevin Banks, Josh Brown, Richard Calistan, Rob Hegedus, Ethan Horbay, Kayla Stewart – The Way Home, Smoke on the Water

Sean Karp, Cailey Milito – Dino Dex, Chickenosaurus Rex: Part 2 

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Newfoundland-set drama Sweet Angel Baby – which premiered at TIFF and screened as the Atlantic gala at the Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF) last week – heads into the awards with a leading three nominations in the film categories, including Best Sound Editing and Best Production Design, in addition to director Melanie Oates being among those up for the Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award.

The Queen of My Dreams, Queen of Bones, Disco’s Revenge, Code 8 Part II, We Forgot to Break Up, and The Silent Planet also received multiple nominations.

Find the full list of nominees here:

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FEATURE FILM

J. Stevens & Team – Really Happy Someday

Fawzia Mirza & Team – The Queen of My Dreams

Karen Chapman & Team – Village Keeper

Jeff Chan & Team – Code 8 Part II

Karen Knox & Team – We Forgot to Break Up

ALLAN KING AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTARY

Chelsea McMullan – Swan Song

Michael Mabbott & Lucah Rosenberg-Lee – Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

Omar Majeed & Peter Mishara – Disco’s Revenge

Aeyliya Husain – An Unfinished Journey

Shannon Walsh – Adrianne & the Castle

Adrian Wills – A Quiet Girl

JEAN-MARC VALLÉE DGC DISCOVERY AWARD

Kaniehtiio Horn – Seeds

Matthew Rankin – Universal Language

Marie-Hélène Viens & Philippe Lupien – You Are Not Alone

Yuqi Kang – 7 Beats per Minute

Melanie Oates – Sweet Angel Baby

BEST SHORT FILM

Alyson Richards – I Was Here

Phillip Barker – EarthWorm

Richard Rotter – Bloodline

Shubham Chhabra – Cash Cows

Liz Whitmere – Cold

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FILM

Tamara Deverell – Priscilla

Carol Spier & Jason Clarke – The Dead Don’t Hurt

Oleg M. Savytski – Queen of Bones

Yola van Leeuwenkamp – Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FILM (LIMITED BUDGET)

Andrew Berry – The Silent Planet

Stephen Britton Osler – Monica’s News

Joel Richardson – Kipkemboi

Xavier Georges – Sweet Angel Baby

Meagan Budgell – We Forgot to Break Up

Michael Pierson – The Queen of My Dreams

BEST PICTURE EDITING – FEATURE FILM

Matt Lyon – Code 8 Part II

Hugh Elchuk – Suze

Anna Catley – We Forgot to Break Up

Jorge Weisz – Sweetland

Sandy Pereira – Young Werther

BEST PICTURE EDITING – DOCUMENTARY

Peter Denes & Steve Taylor – The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal

Mike Munn – Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

Omar Majeed with Peter Mishara & Navin Harrilal – Disco’s Revenge

Shane Belcourt & Matt Lyon – Wilfred Buck

Mike Munn & Eamonn O’Connor with Caitlin Durlak – Black Life: Untold Stories, Migrations

BEST SOUND EDITING – FEATURE FILM

Dashen Naidoo, Jill Purdy, Jack Madigan – Trap

Elma Bello, J.R. Fountain, Kevin Banks, Krystin Hunter, Paul Germann, Ian Geldart, Nadya Hanlon – Queen of Bones

Claudia Pinto, Kelly McGahey – Sweet Angel Baby

Bryson Cassidy, Jeremy Laing – The Silent Planet

The nominees for Television Series, Movies for Television and Mini-Series were announced earlier this month.

Selected from over 500 submissions, DGC says the full slate of nominations emerged from an incredibly competitive process, demonstrating the creative strength of the Canadian film and television industry.

Winners will be announced and presented online on Monday, Oct. 28.

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The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) has unveiled the initial round of nominees for the 23rd annual DGC Awards, led by nods for television series like political thriller Fellow Travelers; true crime miniseries Under the Bridge, delving into the murder of B.C. teen Reena Virk; and AppleTV+ supernatural horror series, The Changeling. The television nominees cover categories for Television Series, Movies for Television and Mini-Series. Winners will be announced and presented online on Monday, Oct. 28. DGC will announce nominations for Feature Film, Documentary and Short Film shortly, as well as the shortlist for the DGC’s Jean-Marc Vallée Discovery Award, following a meeting of the DGC Awards juries on Sept. 7.

ACTRA Alberta has opened submissions for the ACTRA Alberta Awards, set to take place Nov. 2 at the Plaza Theatre in Calgary. The deadline to submit productions, broadcast between Oct. 1, 2022 and August 30, 2024, is Sept. 27.

The Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) has announced the official reunion of k.d. lang and The Reclines, performing together for the first time in 35 years at the 2024 CCMA Awards. In addition to the special performance, lang will be celebrated in an exclusive induction ceremony during Country Music Week 2024. CTV will broadcast the 2024 CCMA Awards on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. ET.

Super Channel is introducing Super Channel Quest, the specialty network’s new channel focused on docuseries and documentaries. Available as of Wednesday, the channel will feature a mix of content ranging from series that attempt to explain the unexplained, real-life mysteries, and science and discovery. It replaces GinxTV, the network’s 24-hour gaming lifestyle and eSports channel. Select GinxTV content will still be carried on Quest. The channel is launching with 100% Canadian content. Read more here.

CTV has announced premiere dates for its fall 2024 lineup, featuring a slate of CTV Originals, new series, and returning titles. New series joining CTV this fall include: crime drama Hight Potential (beginning Sept. 17), written by Drew Goddard (The Good Place) and starring It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson; Hawaii lifeguard drama Rescue: Hi-Surf (Sept. 23); Doctor Odyssey (Sept. 26), a procedural drama led by Joshua Jackson with Don Johnson from creator Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story); The Summit, an unscripted competition series hosted by Manu Bennett (The Hobbit), which sees 16 strangers embark on a treacherous once-in-a-lifetime adventure through the New Zealand Alps (Oct. 2); and documentary series SCAMANDA (Oct. 9 on CTV2), based on the podcast of the same name.

Corus Entertainment’s Slice has released its fall schedule, which includes the addition of the previously-announced The Daily Show (starting Sept. 9), Love After Lockup (Sept. 24), True Crime News (Sept. 16), and The Braxtons (Sept. 4), with 173 hours of new content. Slice and its lineup are available to stream via STACKTV. 

WildBrain Television has unveiled a new slate of Canadian content, highlighted by new seasons of The Fabulous Show with Fay and Fluffy, Ruby and the Well and Caillou. On Family Channel, LEGO, fans can look forward to Season 2 of LEGO Friends, along with a second season of LEGO DREAMZzz, both of which will air Sept. 6. Family Jr. will have the Canadian premiere of Polly Pocket, Season 6, as well as the premiere of Season 4 (part two) of Grizzy and the Lemmings on Sept. 16. WildBrainTV will see two Canadian premieres this fall, Season 3 (part two) of Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese (Sept. 7), and The Smurfs Season 3, premiering Sept. 15. On WildBrain Television’s French-language channel, Télémagino, Season 1 of Jade Armor will air Sept. 3, with Open Season: Call of Nature Season 1 (part two), premiering Sept. 7. 

Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana has announced that Barney, the beloved purple dinosaur, will return to television screens after a 14-year hiatus. The new Barney’s World is set in a playground, where Barney is joined by dinos Billy and Baby Bop and their three kid best friends. The new series (52 x 11 mins), co-produced by Mattel Television Studios and Nelvana, will premiere on Treehouse, Monday, Oct. 14 and be available to stream on STACKTV. The debut season features all-new original music and updated takes on Barney classics. 

Todd Talbot of Love It or List It Vancouver joins Cottage Life with the debut of his new documentary series, Todd Talbot Builds: The Passive House Project (8×30’). The eight-part series is an intimate look into the highs and lows of Talbot’s construction journey as he and his wife, actor Rabecca Talbot, set out to build a net-zero, passive house A-frame on Okanagan Lake, just outside Kelowna. The Canadian broadcast premiere airs Tuesday, Oct. 8. Talbot’s passive house made headlines in summer 2023, when wildfires forced his family to evacuate and halt production of the series. Nearly all the passive house elements were completed, with the exception of the stone wool insulation and non-combustible cladding on the underbelly of the structure. When they were allowed back to the site a month later to survey the damage, the pile of insulation was the only thing not destroyed.

Crave has announced all-new original comedy series, The Office Movers, is being delivered to audiences beginning Friday, Oct. 11. Shot in and around Toronto, this is the first-ever television project from Brampton-born comedy duo Jae and Trey Richards. The six-episode, half-hour comedy follows Everett (Jae) and Eric Saunders (Trey), two brothers reluctantly following in their father’s footsteps in commercial office moving. Produced by Counterfeit Pictures in partnership with Crave, the first two episodes drop Oct. 11 with two new episodes streaming on subsequent Fridays. 

Josh Holliday, an alum of Calgary’s X92.9 (CFEX-FM), Toronto’s 102.1 The Edge (CFNY-FM) and CBC, has released his first short film with a broadcast theme. The mockumentary follows Steve Hammerstone, one half of Coboconk’s #1 morning radio show, as he visits Woofstock: Canada’s Largest Festival for Dogs.

Firecracker Department, the community-driven creative collective supporting female and non-binary artists, has announced the winners of its 2024 Firecracker Department Awards. Allana Harkin and Robin Duke will be presented with the Blaze Award and the RedPoint Award, respectively, at the annual Firecracker Department TIFF Brunch on Saturday, Sept. 7. Harkin, an Emmy Award-winning producer, director and correspondent known for her work on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, and directing work on series like the Rockie Award–nominated Nesting. The RedPoint Award, which recognizes Firecrackers over the age of 50 who continue to create impactful and inspiring art, will be awarded to legendary comedian and actress Robin Duke, a Saturday Night Live and SCTV alumna, in addition to CTV series, Shelved.

Liz Shorten, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), was among those awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal during a ceremony with B.C.’s Premier David Eby and B.C.’s Lieutenant Governor Janet Austin. Shorten was recognized for her outstanding commitment and dedication to the film, television and digital media sectors. Others from the B.C. media community recognized include Sp!ce Radio founder Shushma Datt, CKYE RED FM news director Harjinder Thind, South Asian NHL play-by-play commentator Randip Janda, journalist and TV commentator Guo Ding, and journalist Debbie Chen.

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