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CTV Canada AM

Interview

Director/producer Leslie Bland

Director/producer Ian Ferguson

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CTV News

Victoria Film Festival Preview

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CTV Interview

with Graham Neil

Director/producer Leslie Bland
Actress/singer-songwriter Tracy Thomas

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CTV News at Five

Interview

Director/producer Leslie Bland
Actress/singer-songwriter Tracy Thomas

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CTV Morning Live News

Interview

Director/producer Leslie Bland
Actress/singer-songwriter Tracy Thomas

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City Breakfast TV – Entertainment City

Interview

Director/producer Leslie Bland
Actress/singer-songwriter Tracy Thomas

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Global TV

Review

 

Director/producer Leslie Bland

Actress/singer-songwriter Tracy Thomas

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 The Globe and Mail –

“Documentary Gone South looks at the Canadian presence

in Hollywood”

 

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Times Colonist: “Documentary looks at Canadians who have made it in Hollywood”

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Edmonton Journal article –

“A conversation with Shannon Tweed – Reality TV star featured in new film at Edmonton International Film Fest”

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Vue Weekly article –

“Southward bound – A look at Canadians in Hollywood is one of 130 films at the Edmonton International Film Fest”

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Edmonton Sun article –

“Canadians in Hollywood subject of documentary”

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Gig City article –

“Shannon Tweed on Hollywood”

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Market Wired Press Release –

“Canadian Hollywood Documentary Heads South for World Premiere at Florida Documentary Film Festival”

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SunSentinel article –

“Documentary film fest comes to Boca this weekend”

– Marci Shatzman

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SouthFlorida.com article –

“Florida Documentary Film Festival has moviegoers seeing stars”

– Phillip Valys

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CanCulture: “How Canada created Hollywood”

– Rachel Surman

Gone South champions Canadian culture by arguing that without Canadian influence, Hollywood would be unrecognizable as it is today.
“It reminds Canadians that for years and decades we have punched above our weight in Hollywood,” says Bland. “Canadians have a great track record of success, with not only developing culture within Canada, but internationally as well.” Bland cites famous Canadians in Hollywood such as the Warner brothers and Louis B. Mayer, the film producer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Out of the first four Academy Award winners, three of them were Canadian, including “Americaʼs Sweetheart” Mary Pickford.
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Times Colonist: “Making documentary on Canadian stars a joy for Victoria filmmakers”

– Michael D. Reid

Years after retiring as longtime host of Let’s Make a Deal, Monty Hall still lives up to its title with charm to spare.
So says Ian Ferguson, recalling his visit with the creator of the iconic TV game show, and Marilyn, his wife of 66 years, at their palatial Beverly Hills home. Hall, 92, made Ferguson and co-producer Les Bland an offer they couldn’t refuse before they shot material for Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood, their light-hearted documentary about the influence Canadians have had on pop culture.
“First, you should have some coffee, muffins and fruit,” said the Winnipeg-born showbiz veteran who wasn’t the only legendary Canadian-born game show host the Less Bland Productions partners met while in Los Angeles.
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Times Colonist: “Victoria partners’ film focuses on Canada’s star exports”

– Michael D. Reid

“Canadians south of the border tend to support each other and that’s what we’ve experienced,” Bland said in an interview. “As the story travels through the Timbits grapevine, more and more Canadian stars are getting wind of it and want to be involved.”

Ferguson, an award-winning author and humourist, and Bland, a University of Victoria theatre instructor and former artistic director of Kaleidoscope Theatre, are heading to Hollywood next month to conduct interviews and shoot Canadian stars in action. They also plan to fly to New York to film famous Canadians who live and work there.
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Times Colonist: “Filmmakers aim to take lighthearted look at Canada’s influence on Tinseltown”

– Michael D. Reid

Like the South Park song says, blame Canada.

That’s what Ian Ferguson and Leslie Bland are doing – tongue-in-cheek, naturally – with Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood, their documentary to be launched next year with publication of Ferguson’s book of the same name.
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