Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Canadian cinema task force

Welcome to the Canadian cinema task force of WikiProject Films!

Scope
The Canadian cinema task force is a joint task force of WikiProject Films and WikiProject Canada for the purpose of gathering interested editors in the common purpose of improving Wikipedia coverage of the Canadian cinema and raising the quality of already-existing articles.

Canadian cinema may include not only domestic films, but also films made by Canadian filmmakers outside of the region, films produced or co-produced by Canadian companies, and foreign films shooting within Canada. However per WikiProject Film, this task force should not include articles about actors, directors and filmmakers. Those articles are covered by adding parameters for the Actors and Filmmakers and Screenwriters projects accordingly.

Tagging and assessment
Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding both parameters to the project banners at the top of its talk page: This will automatically place it into Category:Canadian cinema task force articles.
 * yes (or "Canadian=yes") to WikiProject Film
 * yes to WikiProject Canada.

Templates

 * For main project templates, see the sidebar.
 * Userbox: User Canadian cinema task force

Categories

 * Category:Cinema of Canada

Calendar
Many events which are key to this project occur on a cyclical annual basis:


 * Early year: Canadian Screen Award nominations are typically released at some time within the first three months of the year; a precise date can usually be found at academy.ca. Also monitor the Academy Award nominations in case one or more Canadian films garner nominations.
 * February: CSA winners in a few of the special non-juried categories (Golden Screen, Special Achievement, etc.) will be announced at this time.
 * March: CSA winners are announced.
 * April: Prix Iris nominations usually announced around this time. Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
 * May: Monitor coverage of the Cannes Film Festival for Canadian films which may be screened there. Coverage of the Inside Out Film and Video Festival will also point to some Canadian LGBT films that could or should be covered in Wikipedia; first film announcements for the Fantasia Film Festival are also typically expected in May or June.
 * August: The main Canadian film festival circuit swings into gear. Start watching for programming announcements from the Toronto International Film Festival, the Atlantic Film Festival, Cinéfest and other film festivals in Canada. Many films will overlap across more than one such festival, although some will not.
 * Fall: Watch for the announcement of Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This usually takes place in September, but has sometimes been announced as early as August.
 * September: Most of the major film festivals will be held. Watch for coverage of their final award announcements.
 * October: Most of the remaining major film festivals will be held; watch again for coverage of their final award announcements.
 * December: Awards and honours announced include the Vancouver and Toronto Film Critics Association awards, TIFF's Canada's Top Ten (and/or their once-a-decade Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time poll), and the Borsos Competition at the Whistler Film Festival.

To-do



 * Tag articles.
 * Recruit interested editors.
 * Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
 * Expand the open task listing above.
 * Improve referencing when you find a Canadian film article that is poorly referenced.
 * Check Canadian Screen Award and Prix Iris category articles for films and/or people whose articles are still red links.
 * Lists in are incomplete; often they're missing many films that do already have Wikipedia articles to link to, and even films that are listed haven't always had all the relevant details filled in on the table. They also need to have references added; as older wikipractices did not require lists to be referenced, while contemporary wikipractices do, lists from 2017 and earlier either do not have references at all, or have had a few references selectively added here and there but have not been comprehensively referenced across the board.
 * Address outstanding redlinks in WikiProject Film/List of films without article/List of missing Canadian films.
 * Cinémas Guzzo is a stub article that has been subject to graffiti recently. Some info has been rolled back, but key people in sidebar keeps getting vandalized and needs fixing (again)
 * Locate programs or schedules for the Vancouver International Film Festival. By-year articles exist since 2014 as full programs have been posted to Issuu for those years, but have not been completed for 2013 or earlier. Lists are available on Letterboxd, but are not sorted by program and cannot be guaranteed as complete.
 * Older articles in the Toronto International Film Festival series are also often not complete listings of all films; find older programs if possible to complete them.
 * Similar articles may be appropriate for other major Canadian film festivals as well (e.g. Hot Docs, Fantasia, Calgary, FNC, Cinéfest, Inside Out, etc.) if programs can be located to provide complete listings.
 * Gemini Award articles remain in need of formatting and referencing improvement.
 * Add things here!

Resources

 * Druick, Zoë. Aspa Kotsopoulos. Programming reality: perspectives on English-Canadian television, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. ISBN 9781554580101
 * Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC). Canadian Journal of Film Studies, University of Toronto Press, e, 1990-.
 * Foster, Charles. Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood,Dundurn Press, 2000. ISBN 1-55002-348-9
 * Melnyk, George. Great Canadian Film Directors. University of Alberta, 2007. 488 pp. ISBN 9780888645289
 * Melnyk, George. One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. University of Toronto Press, 2004. 361 pp. ISBN 9780802084446
 * Monk, Katherine. Weird Sex and Snowshoes, and other Canadian film phenomena. Raincoast Books, 2001. ISBN 1551924749
 * Morris, Peter. Embattled shadows: a history of Canadian cinema, 1895-1939, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1978. ISBN 0773503226
 * Pevere, Geoff, Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey. Prentice-Hall Canada, 1996. ISBN 0132630885
 * Pike, David. Canadian cinema since the 1980s: At the heart of the world. University of Toronto Press, 2012. 392 pp. ISBN 9781442698321
 * Pratley, Gerald. A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5.
 * Pratley, Gerald. Torn Sprockets: The Uncertain Projection of the Canadian Film. Associated University Presses, 1987. ISBN 0874131944
 * Topalovich, Maria. And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1.
 * Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
 * Vatnsdal, Caelum. They Came From Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema. Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2014. ISBN 9781894037532
 * Wise, Wyndham, ed. Essential guide to Canadian film. 2001

Annotated bibliography
Please use the following format when adding works:

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.