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The Canadian film industry is divided into two contingents, the Anglophone-Canadian and Francophone-Canadian groups. The anglophone (English-speaking) industry is often connected to that of its neighbour, the United States; the francophone industry in situated in the French-speaking Quebec province.
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Coutanche, M., Selbo, J., Velikovsky, J.T. (2015). Canada. In: Nelmes, J., Selbo, J. (eds) Women Screenwriters. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312372_44
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