Noah Cowan, a veteran movie pageant director and indie movie specialty distributor, most just lately with San Francisco Worldwide Movie Pageant, has died. He was 55. Cowan died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a battle with glioblastoma multiforme that was first recognized in December 2021. Throughout a profession that started …

Hélène Tanguay, a long-time champion of Oscar-winning Canadian animation who worked at the National Film Board of Canada for 37 years, has died. She was 70 years old. Tanguay died on Jan. 7 according to the NFB, Canada’s public filmmaker, which did not specify a cause of death. Wendy Tilby …