Welcome to the Canadian National Multilingual News Group (CNMNG). This is a project made possible through funding by Canadian Heritage. CNMNG aims to gather news researched and written by a corps of Canadian-based journalists/writers from the country’s multilingual community groups. The overall goal is to inform, analyze and critique the issues of the day in a professional manner and to provide that to publishers and editors active in the ethnocultural-multilingual press and media whose experience provides them with a perspective that is sensitive to news relevant to their own language group.
TORONTO – Film Distributors typically steer clear of comedies due to their high cultural specificity, and for the difficult process of adapting them to foreign audiences. This is why great Italian comedy and their comedians, for example, remain virtually unknown worldwide. Massimo Troisi was perhaps the prime example of a genius the world outside of Italy never got to know…
