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Canadian Screen Awards to take place in Toronto

Canadian Screen Awards to take place in Toronto | iNFOnews.ca
Actors, from left, Samian, Naiade Aoun, and Wahiakeron Gilbert, as well as producer Roger Frappier, and Telefilm Canada's executive director Carolle Brabant, pose for photos after the film "Hochelaga, Land of Souls," was named as Canada's entry in the race for the 2018 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 in Montreal. The Canadian Screen Awards, celebrating the best in homegrown film and TV, take place tonight in Toronto. The films "Ava," "Never Steady, Never Still" and "Hochelaga, Land of Souls" are the leading film nominees with eight nods apiece. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

TORONTO – The Canadian Screen Awards, celebrating the best in homegrown film and TV, take place tonight in Toronto.

The films "Ava," "Never Steady, Never Still" and "Hochelaga, Land of Souls" are the leading film nominees with eight nods apiece.

"Hochelaga, Land of Souls" was Canada's pick for the best foreign-language film category at this year's Oscars but didn't make the short list.

"Ava" is about a Tehran teen who grapples with losing her eyesight, while "Never Steady, Never Still" is about a mother battling Parkinson's disease.

"Maudie," starring Sally Hawkins as Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis and Ethan Hawke as her husband, has seven nominations.

Dozens of awards have already been handed out in galas this week, with winners including the TV shows "Cardinal," "Mary Kills People" and "Alias Grace."

Actors Jonny Harris and Emma Hunter will co-host the show, which will air from Toronto's Sony Centre of Performing Arts on CBC.

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Shelby Thevenot

Shelby has lived across Canada. She grew up near Winnipeg, Manitoba then obtained her B.F.A in Multidisciplinary Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. In 2014 she moved to Montreal, Quebec to study French and thrived in the Visual Journalism Graduate Diploma program at Concordia University. Now she works at iNFO News where she strives to get the stories that matter to the Okanagan Valley community.

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