July 9Th, 2004

July 9Th, 2004

For Immediate Release April 14, 2016 M E D I A A D V I S O R Y BC Screen Industry Joins with BC MLA Jane Thornthwaite For Celebration of National Canadian Film Day Screening ‘If I Had Wings’ and Special Announcement Vancouver, BC – Please join the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of British Columbia (MPPIA), Creative BC and North Vancouver –Seymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite for a celebration of National Canadian Film Day with a special cast and crew screening of Really Real Films and Two For the Money Media’s If I Had Wings and a special announcement from MLA Jane Thornthwaite. Date & Time: Wednesday April 20, 10 am Location: Bosa Centre for Film & Digital Entertainment Agenda: • Welcome on Behalf of National Canadian Film Day, Sue Biely • Remarks/Announcement, Jane Thornthwaite, MLA North Vancouver- Seymour & Parliamentary Secretary for Child Mental Health and Anti-Bullying • Screening Introduction, Allan and Cynde Harmon, Really Real Films; Kim Arnott, Two For the Money Media • Cast & Crew Q & A The Motion Picture Production Industry Association of BC (MPPIA) is a member-based, non-profit society established in April 2002 to grow, diversify and promote a competitive and sustainable motion picture production industry in British Columbia. Creative BC is an independent non-profit agency created by the Government of British Columbia in 2013 to build the capacity of BC’s creative sector. The agency has a mandate to support and strengthen BC’s film and television, interactive and digital media, music, magazine and book publishing industries both at home and in the global marketplace. (more) Really Real Films is a feature film and television production company that has been in successful operation in British Columbia since 1998. Company principals Cynde and Allan Harmon develop, finance and produce for the domestic and international marketplace. Really Real Films has an ongoing interest in producing content with a “positive message” for younger audiences. SHANA-THE WOLF'S MUSIC and IF I HAD WINGS, have screened at over 85 Children’s Film Festivals worldwide, and won 32 international prizes. IF I HAD WINGS was the 2014 winner of Canada’s ‘Shaw Rocket’ award for the 13-17 yr category. Two 4 the Money Media is an independent Canadian production company, based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded by Kim Arnott in April 2010, Two 4 the Money Media has built a reputation for outstanding Canadian content productions, and international co- productions made for worldwide distribution. Kim has served as an Executive Producer on a variety of made for TV movies including: Radio Rebel, Pants on Fire, and Mark & Russell’s Wild Ride. Kim Arnott as well as on the TV series, R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, seeing it through four seasons on The Hub Network, winning three consecutive Emmys for “Outstanding Children’s Series” in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Recently Kim partnered with Really Real Films to produce If I Had Wings, a heartwarming indie feature six years in the making. National Canadian Film Day (NCFD), an initiative of REEL CANADA was created as a new way to celebrate this great nation, embrace Canadian cinema and have some FUN. As part of its educational programs, REEL CANADA has presented over 1,100 festivals of Canadian films for over 400,000 high school students and new Canadians across the country since 2005. For more information visit reelcanada.ca or canadianfilmday.ca. Find NCFD on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram: @canfilmday using #NCFD #CanFilmDay. -30 - For more information contact: Leslie Wootton MPPIA Communications Motion Picture Production Industry Association of BC 604.983.5980 [email protected] .

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