Stargate‘s Amanda Tapping has been nominated for Best Actress in the 8th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards. According to the website for the Awards:
The awards are an artist driven recognition, with a voting membership of 18,000, including members of ACTRA, Canadian Actor’s Equity Association, The Directors Guild of Canada, Writers Guild of Canada and The Comedy Association: including Yuk Yuk’s, Second City and Just for Laughs.
There are 20 Awards in 3 categories: film, television and live comedy.
Representatives from each of the following organizations make up the foundations board of advisors: ACTRA , Director’s Guild , Writer’s Guild , Yuk Yuk’s , Second City , Just for Laughs, The Humber School of Comedy, Comedy VIP’s from across Canada.
It is also stated at the Award’s official site, “To qualify, nominees must either be a Canadian, a landed immigrant, have been born in Canada or have done the bulk of their work in Canada.”
Tapping’s nomination is one of four for filmmaker John Bolton and his short film Breakdown (Best Director, Best Writer, Best Actress, and Best Actor). According to the The Vancouver Sun, the film will be shown at the outdoor Harmony Arts Festival in John Lawson Park in North Vancouver at 9:15pm on August 11.
The story behind the short film Breakdown, according to its IMDb record, is as follows: “In May 2006, filmmakers John Bolton and Errin Clutton were given eight days and eight hundred dollars to produce the made-for-television disaster film “Breakdown”. Unfortunately, they spent the first seven days in casting. On the eighth day, they cut together “Breakdown” with the only footage they had – the video from the casting session. This is that film.” IMDb notes that the independent film’s tagline is “a disaster film disaster.”
The film also includes Stargate veterans Sonya Salomaa (Charlotte Mayfield/Athena), Garry Chalk (Colonel Chekov), Kendall Cross (Julia Donovan), Mike Coleman (Med Tech in “The Powers That Be”), and Winston Rekert (Cordesh) who was also nominated for his role in the film in the Best Actor category.
The 8th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards will be presented at the Comedy Awards & Festival celebrations from October 9-13, 2007, in London, Ontario, Canada.