“Margaret Atwood Recalls Mgm’s Straight-To-To-Toryes Order in 2016 to Adapt Her Dystopian Classic Novel The Handmaid’s Tale As a Hulu Series As Being A Touch Risky. “IT WAS A GAMBLE. AND The GAMBLE PAID OFF. AnyBody Approaching Me Earlier Who Said We Wanted to Make A Film About the Handmaid’s Tale, I would have a HAVE SAID, ‘WHO”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“IT WAS A GAMBLE. AND The GAMBLE PAID OFF. AnyBody Approaching Me Earlier Who Said We Wanted to Make A Film About The Handmaid’s TaleI would have said, ‘who’s going to watch that?’ ‘She told the Second Annual Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Canada Gala at the Ritz Carlton in Toronto on Thursday.
“WHEN IT CAME OUT, A CERTAIN NUMBER OF PEOPLE FELT IT WAS Illuminating Because, Surely, The United States Wuld Never, Ever Do Such Things,“ The Acerbic Canadian The Icon Award at the Ritz Carlton. She Talked About the Success in Adapting Her 1985 Dystopian Novel Just As Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale Has Reaced The Climax for It Sixth and Final Season, and A SMALL Screen Treatment for Her 2019 Follow Up Novel, The testaments, is chooting in toronto.
ATWOOD WAS AMONG A HOST OF Canadian Leading Ladies Celebrared AT The Hollywood Reporter‘S Second Annual Wie Canada Event. The All-Day Gathering Was Attrated by Top Homegrown Producers, ACTORS, Musicians and Execs Like Orphani Black Breakout Humberly González, Toronto Film Fest Chief Programmer Anita Lee, Aeg Presents Exec Debra Rathwell and Cinespace Studios Exec Magali Simard.
EMocial HighPoints for the Event Included The Sex Lives of College Girls Star Amrit Kaur, on the Stage to Accept the BreakthROUGH AWARD, Calling on Her Fellow Canadian Women in the Room, and Especialy Decision Makers, to be More Festya as They Create.
“Women have intuition. We’re Not Scared of the Truth the Way Men Are Are. We Understand the Human Condition. We’ve Dealt with Oppression. We Don’t’s As Women, As Humanitarians and As Artists ”Kaur Declared.
Also on hand was shirley Halperin, Co-Editor-in-CHIEF OF Thr, and Jeanie Pyun, Deputy Editorial Director of Thrto introduce this year’s wie canada Power List List Spotlighting 45 Trailblazers Breaking Through and Building The Future of Film, TV and Music North of The BORDER.
“We Are Delighted to Recognize the Acievments of a Direse Group of Powerhouse Women,“ Halperin Said As She Looked Over The Crowded Ballroom While. RAPTUSHUS CHEERS AND APPLAUSE. Wie Canada Atendees Were Also Treated to Performance of “I’M DONE” by Singer-Songwriter Rachelle Show.
And the first cohort of the wie canada menorship Program – Jessica Commanda, Aman Kaur Khangura, Julisa Marcel, Kipola Wakilongo, Olivia Weatherall and Dianne Wulf Their Instructors as they look ahead to personalized menorship, workshops and Networking to Turbocharge their Careers.
Another High Point Was Christina Jennings, Founder and President of Shaftesbury, Producer of the Period Police Proceduralal Murdoch mysteries and the dog-and-cop family series Hudson & Rex, Receiving the Glass Celing Award. A Child of the 1960s and the 1970s, Jennings Recalled a Golden Age for Women’s Rights As A Young Woman.
“I SAW MySELF AS NOSE CAPABLE THAN A MAN, AND I NEVER BELIEVED THAT, OUTSIDE OF PHYSICAL STREEGTH, I COURCLDNN’T DO Anything A Man Could DO,“ She Recalled. Jennings, Sister of the Late Abc News Anchor Peter Jennings, Three Locked to the Us Today Women Face Backlash in the Worksplace and the Wider Society Amid The Donald Trumnistration.
“Women’s Rights Are Being Challenge and Taking Away The Progress We Made. It’s Frigening to See That Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Those Rights That We Fough SO Strongly for, Are Being Stripped Back in The United States of America, ”she called out. ALSO Thursday, Killers of the flower moon Actress Tantoo Cardinal, Who Is Of Cree and Métis Heritage, Picked Up The Equity in Entertainment Award.
She Spoke of Canada’s Indigenous PEOPLES HAVING COMEGHHHHHHHHA INFAMOUS REASIDENTIAL SCHOOLS AND THE SIXTIES SCOOP ATROCITIES ON THE COUNTRY’S PEOPLE. “I Came from A Powerful People. Our History Will You We FOUND TRUTHS IN OUR SURVIAL OF Atrocites, in the Marrow of the Children that Survied, and Toured by the Survied She Underscored The Power of Healing and Self-Discovery Through Storytelling.
And Legendary Fashion and Lifestyle Journalist Jeanne Beker, Receive The Impact Award, Toted Being ABLE TO MAKE A CAREER IN KANADA IN THE 1980S AND 1990S as they are today. “There was intense competition. I Felt It, and I Felt Threatened by Women,” An Emotion Beker Recalled.
But Times Changed. “To see this incredible community out here, just Radiating so Much Light and so Much Support, It’s Absolutely Heart-Swelling Added.
The Second Annual Wie Canada Summit Once Again Brough Together The Canadian Industry Across TV, Film and Music to Celebrate and Recognize The Academs of. The Event’s Return, Produced Once Again by Access Canada, Followed The Successful First Wie Canada Summit in 2024 Atlended by Iconic Canadian Entertainers Lilly Lilly Singh, Nia Vardalosalosalos. Catherine Reitman and Jully Black.