Why it’s now or never for the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards GlobeArts
The critically acclaimed Antigone is one of the top-line nominees in the Cinematic Arts category of the Canadian Screen Awards.If the Canadian entertainment industry had to boil down its mantra over these past few months to one word, it might simply be: “Survive.” At least that is the case for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.
“Has it only been eight weeks? I can’t believe that; it feels like it’s been literally four months,” says Beth Janson, chief executive of the ACCT, over the phone last week. “For the first weeks, we were in crisis mode. And shell-shocked.”, a giant annual industry confab that celebrates homegrown film, television and digital media, and which would have been capped off with the televised Canadian Screen Awards gala. But then COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.
Which is how the ACCT landed on announcing the winners of this year’s CSAs in a series of live-streamed “virtual presentations." From May 25 through May 28, the CSAs will unveil its 2020 winners across its social-media platforms on
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