* Mentors takes bouquet of nine Rosies

Minds Eye Pictures and Anaid Productions are fainting under the weight of the nine Rosies they won last weekend for kids series Mentors at the 2000 Alberta Film and Television Awards. Along with Best of the Festival, Mentors also snapped up such high-profile honors as best series (Josh Miller, Margaret Mardirossian, producers), best director – dramatic (Michele Boniface), and best cinematographer – dramatic (Jim Jeffrey).

Other multiple winners include the short film Staring at a Fearful Ocean out of Blue Sky Communications, with four Rosies, and Bad Money, a feature from Red Devil Films, with three.

* Inaugural Cologne Screenings, June 4-7

The inaugural edition of the Cologne Screenings for international buyers and sellers of programs and formats launches June 4-7 in Cologne, Germany.

The event is organized by Medienforum nrw, the International Filmkongress and the Cologne Conference and is intended to promote business with Germany, the world’s second largest broadcast market with more than 100 tv channels, 33 million tv households and a market volume of $12 billion.

Major European players attending include RTL Television, wdr, zdf, ProSieben, the KirchGroup, CLT-Ufa, Pearson Television, Granada and BBC Worldwide.

The Cologne Screenings (www.Cologne-Screenings.de) includes a conference program.

* Projectionists ratify contract, desert union

The Union of B.C. Projectionists has ratified a new contract with Cineplex and Famous Players. The two-year collective agreement means a 60% wage rollback and the loss of 70% of the 60 projectionists’ jobs. Very few of the union members who ratified the agreement are expected to return to work, choosing instead to share in the $1-million severance.