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CBC Film Festival
CBC Film Festival is a Canadian feature film television series which aired on CBC Television from 1979 to 1980.
Premise.
Feature films, nearly all Canadian, were featured in this series. In the initial 1979 season, the remainder of the time slot after a film sometimes featured interviews with non-Canadian directors John Cromwell, George Cukor, Samuel Fuller, John Schlesinger, Martin Scorsese, Donald Siegel and John Sturges.
Scheduling.
This series appeared in a two-hour time slot,
on CBC-TV and repeated on CBC News Network in April 2010 as part of the scientific and environmental program "The Nature of Things", presented and narrated by acclaimed Canadian environmental activist David Suzuki.
Festivals and awards.
- Best Documentary Award, Whistler Film Festival 2009 (Canada)
- Official Selection, International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam « IDFA » 2009 (Netherlands)
- Official Selection, Festival international de programmes audiovisuels « FIPA » 2010 (Biarritz, France)
- Official Selection, Thessaloniki Documentary