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Academy of Canadian Cinema And Television Silver Anniversary
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Reminiscing with.
ANDRA SHEFFER, FIRST EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
In 1979, Bill Marshall, who was then-chair and founder of the Toronto Film Festival, suggested that we investigate setting up an academy-style awards event for the Canadian film industry. I went out and got the first $5,000 grant from the Ontario Ministry of Culture to research how we would set this up. We began by consulting with the industry and ended up having kazilllions of meetings, many of which took place in the greenro...See the full content of this document
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