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• Congratulations to our Screenwriter Steve Calderwood on the sale of his screenplay "Those Pearly Gates"...we have the press on it and he's loving it !
  

• Congratulations to Alberto Giacalone, our Italy based composer. His music score will be used in an upcoming film,  directed and produced by a famous Canadian Actor who's first film was showcased at the "Cannes Film Festival" 2005
  

• Jill Divine, our UK based author, recently got her second book published !  "The Bears" (a science fiction novel)  is currently available at amazon.com and all major book stores. We also sold her first screenplay!
  

• Our Leslie Streit takes home the Grand Prize win at the DNAFF film festival 2005
  

• Our Chicago based Actor, Scott Quist,  continues to wow television audiences with his reccuring role on the hit TV show "Prison Break"
  

• Miss Kristin receives airplay on 102.1 The Edge ( one of the top rock stations in the world )
  

• Shannen Macleason our singer/songwriter from Portugal is getting her single placed in an American independent feature film.
  

• Our writer Steve Metcalf is in the process of completing his first novel.
  

• Our client Terell alongside huge acts such as JAY-Z and Brian McKnight on the charts!
  

• Our Robert Hazel, Screenwriter - recognized by the industry for each of his written works ! ( 6 )
  

• The famous comedian Jackie Mason asked Danie to run away with him to Las Vegas and get married while she attended a networking party in Toronto.... True or False ?
  

• Danie was made famous by a song she wrote and sang, entitled "Damn You're Good" which was a top 100 hit in Canada for 10 months and received airplay in 27 countries around the world... True or False ?
  

• Danie was the only industry professional to be personally invited to meet with  "The Donald" and his team in Atlantic city during her model's photo shoot of the Taj Mahal Billboard...True or False ?
  

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• We would like to thank our client Istvan Szabo "from Hungary"  for creating our new logo design.
  

• Our client Rob Berg received 2 nominations for the 2006 Canadian Gospel Music Assoc. awards, one for folk/roots album of the year, and one for instrumental song of the year.
  

• Our client Sean Kristopher hit the top 40 in the U.K.  Congratulations! SEAN KRISTOPHER, Nashville's 2006 Music Row Discovery Award Winner has also been nominated for the New Music Weekly  2006 Best New Country artist. We would like to  congratulate our client!
  

• Toronto based Screenwriter Steve Calderwood along with his Agent / Publicist Danie Cortese Entertainment Inc. are excited to announce the Sale of a 3rd Short in 6 weeks. Steve's Short "Death of a Salesperson" has been acquired by Toronto based APB Pictures Inc.The short will be completed by the end of August 2006.
  

• APB Pictures in Toronto purchased "Death of a Salesperson" from our screenwriter Steve Calderwood. The film is currently in production.
  

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  "Special Request" are #3 on the www.isounds.com Chart !

• We have just learned that our client's short play "Job Descriptions" has been accepted by the Alumnae Theatre here in Toronto. This play will be the opener for their "New Directions" Spring Festival. This will certainly bring our client Peter Bloch-Hansen a lot of exposure and publicity in the theatre circuit. Congrats!   
  

• We would like to congratulate our US based clients The RIPPIN band who just entered the US NATIONAL RADIO CHART AT #83!!!!!!!!! alongside some of the biggest names in music with their "Serious" cd which we are currently promoting - you go boys!
  

• Paul Neary, President of Clearlight Films, is pleased to announce the purchase of an original script from Steve Calderwood. Represented & Promoted by DCE, Steve is a talented writer, whose script 'Is The Devil Behind The Light' will make an interesting and challenging addition to Clearlight Films' current production roster.
  

• Congratulations to our client Shaun Barrows who is charting at #2 in Europe within 5 weeks of our Jazz radio publicity campaign.
  

• We are pleased to announce that our screenwriter Jill Divine recently opened her own film production company "Divine Lady Productions". Jill is launching the release of her first film " Will it hurt?".
  

  We wish her the greatest success!

• The Western Daily Press - UK requests and up close and personal interview with our very own British author and film producer Jill Divine. Success in knocking on her door and we are so proud of her!
  

• Our co - writing team Mary Kay Labrie  and Julie Anne Malady have just received  notification that they have been placed as quarter-finalists in the "13th Annual Writer's Network Screenplay & Fiction" competition... with two works entitled  "The Weather Worker" and  "Harry & Beano." There were approximately 1,693 entrants,  they will now compete for the semi-finalist round of the competition.  The staff would like to  congratulate them on this accomplishment and hope they take home the gold!
  

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• We are very pleased to announce that our very own Shawn Glynn's single "Empty" has been picked up by 99.9 Mix FM - Toronto's best music mix station! WOW ! and yes, we released and promoted this single to radio. Congrats Shawn !.  - 2007 -
  

• Our entertainment specialist and film critic Anne Brodie, is currently writing a daily film column for Sympatico/Microsoft. You can also catch her film reviews at: www.monstersandcritics.com and at www.annebrodie.ca  We are very proud to be representing an Entertainment Icon ..the lovely Anne Brodie, who has interviewed thousands of celebrities. Did you know that Anne was the first Canadian to become a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association who produces the annual "Critics Choice Awards" ?
  

• Congratulations to our client Shaun Barrowes... for his latest achievement of becoming an American Idol finalist - Make us proud!!
  

• Our client Leslie Streit is writing, directing & co-producing "The Elly Glass Project". This a documentary about an amazing 92-year old woman who rescued her husband from a concentration camp & still lives in the house he built -- one of the first solar houses in the United States.  The film recently became a sponsored project through the Film Arts Foundation of San Francisco.
  

• Our Client "Ohwihsha" have just been nominated for the following awards:
  

Aboriginal Peoples Choice Awards:

* NEW ARTIST

* INSTRUMENTAL

* GROUP/DUO

Native American Music Awards:

* BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING

   We hope they take home the gold for both. We are so proud of their accomplishments!

• We are pleased to announce that our client Dyan Garris has just hit #1 on the Soundscape television charts.