CANADIAN CANADA $7 FALL 2016 VOL.19, NO.1 SCREENWRITER FILM | TELEVISION | RADIO | DIGITAL MEDIA We Celebrate Our Epic Screenwriting Success Stories It’s Time To Work On Your Pitch Baroness Von Sketch Show: Creating A World In Two Minutes Animated Conversation: Ken Cuperus Opens Up About His Live Action-Cartoon Crossover PM40011669 ★ ★ SCREENWRITERS STAY TUNED FOR IMPORTANT DEADLINES THE 21ST ANNUAL WGC SCREENWRITING AWARDS APRIL 24, 2017 | KOERNER HALL, TORONTO 2017 SPECIAL AWARDS: THE WGC SHOWRUNNER AWARD for excellence in showrunning THE JIM BURT SCREENWRITING PRIZE for longform screenwriting talent THE SONDRA KELLY AWARD for female screenwriters CALL FOR ENTRIES COMING SOON TO WWW.WGC.CA CANADIAN SCREENWRITER The journal of the Writers Guild of Canada Vol. 19 No. 1 Fall 2016 ISSN 1481-6253 Publication Mail Agreement Number 400-11669 Contents Publisher Maureen Parker Editor Tom Villemaire Features
[email protected] Having An Animated Conversation 6 Director of Communications Li Robbins We talk to Ken Cuperus about how he and his writing team create a hybrid animation and live-action comedy. Editorial Advisory Board By Mark Dillon Denis McGrath (Chair) Michael MacLennan Susin Nielsen Simon Racioppa Changing The Rules 12 President Jill Golick (Central) While bureaucrats tinker with the points system in an effort Councillors to make Canadian television more successful, we offer our Michael Amo (Atlantic) epic track record, proving the system works. Mark Ellis (Central) By Matthew Hays Dennis Heaton (Pacific) Denis McGrath (Central) Warming Up For The Pitch 16 Anne-Marie Perrotta (Quebec) Pitching is often a bigger challenge to writers than, Andrew Wreggitt (Western) well, writing.