Canadian Acting Talent and Demands for Lack of Self-Confidence

[dewline]

Well, from where your host sits, this counts as another act of rudeness on the part of Telefilm Canada's current upper management:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/02/20/telefilm-rules-change.html

It's a call for lack of confidence in our homegrown acting talent base, as far as I'm concerned. A call for our actors to lack in self-confidence as well. As if the process of trying to earn an honest living in the field of their dreams in their own country weren't hard enough for them.

Not quite sure which is the bigger error in logic, judgement and basic good manners.

You may have a different opinion, though.

Comments

[tartysuz.livejournal.com]

Definitely! The previous boss was good, but I believe he only had one term: not enough to shepherd through lasting changes.

Also, this current boss falls back on the auteur model of filmmaking, which leads to blaming the artists rather than looking at the massive distribution inequities in English Canada.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

The addressing of which has been traditionally verboten at the insistence of the MPAA, as we know from reading Hollywood North among other sources. And I can't see the current government being willing to tell the MPAA to stick it over this.