In this special report, Playback steps back to look at both the Montreal World Film Festival and the issues surrounding production in Quebec. Included are interviews with producers, distributors, funding agency managers and service providers on a range of topics including the benefits and trends of production in Quebec, the simmering conflict between domestic and location interests, developments in deal-making, acquisitions and coproductions with European partners, and the lay of the land at WFF. Stories by Leo Rice-Barker.
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Montreal-based coproductions
Following is a list of Montreal-based film and television coproductions certified by Telefilm Canada between January and July.
Title | Format | Coproducers |
Little Lulu Show | Animation | Cinar Films/Two Film, Germany. |
Kit & Kaboodle | Animation | Cine-Groupe/Marianna/Carvallo, Chile |
St. Bear’s Dolls Hospital | Children’s | Norma Denys/Egmont Imagination/Nordisk, Denmark |
15 Moments | Feature | Cinemaginaire/Cinea, France |
Beyond Mozambique | Feature | Optima films/PM Audiovisuel, France |
Inside Job | Feature | Transfilm/FIT/P.A.S.M., France |
Emporte-Moi | Feature | Cite-Amerique/Haut et Court, Captics, Swiss, France |
Le Petit Ciel | Feature | Aska/Solera, France |
Quelque chose de l’organique | Feature | Cite-Amerique/Haut et Court, France |
Adventures of Paddington Bear | Animation | Cinar/Protecrea, France |
Animal Crackers | Animation | Cinar/Alpanim, France |
Believe It Or Not | Animation | Cinar/Alphanim, France |
Country Mouse and City Mouse | Animation | Cinar/France Animation, France |
Jim Bouton | Animation | Cine-Groupe/Saban Intl, France |
Mona the Vampire | Animation | Cinar/Alphanim, France |
Allende, dernier combat | Documentary | Macumba Intl/Eural/MFP, France |
Funamble | Animation | Cine-Groupe/Atlantel, France |
Insectia II | Documentary | Pixcom/Cineteve, France |
Jazz Collection ’98 | Variety | Amerimage-Spectra/Ex Nijilo, France |
Voleur d’etoiles | Short film | GPA Films/Elkin, France |
Hemingway | Documentary | Pascal Blais/Imagica, Japan |
Eye of the Beholder | Feature | Filmline Intl/Eye, U.K. |
Ladies Room | Feature | Ladies (Transfilm)/Small Rain, U.K. |
To Walk With Lions | Feature | Kingsborough/Simba Studio 8, U.K. |
The Worst Witch | Children’s | Galafilm/HTV/Global Arts. U.K. |