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The Banff Television Festival is
considered one of the top artistic gatherings in the world, and claims to
be that medium's artistic and business counterpart of the Cannes Film
Festival in France. Founded in 1979, the festival draws international
attention with television shows in competition for the Rockie Awards. In
2002, close to 1,000 programs were entered in competition, and 82
nominated for awards in: short drama, social and political documentary,
children's programming, arts documentary, comedies, continuing series,
animation, sports, information programming, made-for-TV movies,
mini-series, history and biography, performance programming, and popular
science and natural history.
As well, actors, broadcasters, directors, writers and producers are
honoured for lifetime achievement in the television medium. Previous
winners include Barbara Frum, Dick Wolf, Norman Jewison, Bea Arthur,
Stephen Bocho, Diane English and Walter Cronkite. Practitioners of comedy
are also honoured with the Sir Peter Ustinov/Comedy Network Award; past
winners include Tracey Ullman, John Cleese, Kelsey Grammer, Bob Newhart,
Martin Short and Barry Humphries (a.k.a. Dame Edna).
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News and Current Events #46
Many western Canadian news
organizations cover the
festival as part of their arts and entertainment
packages.
CKUA,
with its interest in the arts, reports on the festival
in its evening news
report. This edition of Alberta Today,
broadcast June 4, 1996, features
news from the festival,
in addition to an evaluation of a work-in-progress
that
garners a less than enthused review.
The day's other stories are:
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