2010 Gemini Award Nominations Announced
Jeff Woolnough has been nominated for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for his work on Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story.
Also nominated:
Jared Keeso – Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series
Sarah Manninen – Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series
Tim Cherry – Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series
Glen MacPherson – Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series
Rejean Labrie – Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Fiction Program or Series
Patricia Henderson – Best Costume Design
The Industry Gala Presentations will take place on Tuesday November 2nd and Wednesday, November 3rd at the Kool Haus Entertainment Complex; the Broadcast Gala will take place on Saturday November 13th at the historic Winter Garden Theatre and will be broadcast live-to-tape on Global and Showcase.
2010 Directors Guild of Canada Awards
Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story has been nominated for Best Television Movie/Miniseries, Best Director, Best Editor and Best Sound Editor in the 2010 Directors Guild of Canada Awards to be held in Toronto on September 25.
Also nominated, Being Erica, Episode 109 “Everything She Wants” for Best Television Series Drama.
A full listing can be seen at: http://www.dgc.ca/page.php?id=101
THE DON CHERRY STORY Gets First Star Ratings
From journeyman minor league hockey player to broadcasting legend, KEEP YOUR HEAD UP, KID: THE DON CHERRY STORY, the two-part biopic scored a massive hit for CBC Television. More than 1.38 million viewers tuned in for the series debut episode on Sunday, March 28 and an additional 1.27 million watched last night’s finale of this unlikely Canadian love story. Viewership peaked at 1.83 million.
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Don Cherry the movie. Is it worth four hours of your time?
The Don Cherry biopic, titled Keep Your Head Up, Kid, is a whopping four hour, two part production that will air Sunday and Monday on the CBC (8 p.m. local times).
Is this marathon epic worth sitting through?
The answer is: Absolutely.
The story is not deep, but it moves along quickly. It is never dull, the performances are fine and it has a great look. The sets authentically evoke eras that begin in the 1940s and conclude in the early 1980s. The action sequences are well done. Read more
KEEP YOUR HEAD UP, KID
If you were born after 1980, you might not realize that there was a time when Don Cherry of Hockey Night in Canada’s “Coach’s Corner” segment did more than push sartorial boundaries and mix together hockey and patriotism with unmatched vigour.
For one, he really was a coach in the NHL, and a pretty darn good one. And two, when he was a defenceman in the American Hockey League before then, he played the same rough-’em-up style that he advocates today, so he’s walked the walk. Read more
Christine Ghawi wins the 2009 Gemini
“Christine Ghawi wins the 2009 Gemini for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries for her work in “Celine”, directed by Jeff Woolnough. The movie was nominated in three categories including “Best Screenplay” and “Best Movie”.
