Alliance Atlantis Communications is expanding into the Internet and new media with the creation of Alliance Atlantis New Media….

Alliance Atlantis Communications, through its specialty services Showcase and History Television, will spend an additional $8 million on new Canadian programming from independent producers, on top of its existing licence requirements. And another $4.3 million will be spent on a new…

Not only has Devine Entertainment’s Edison: The Wizard of Light been nominated for a Rockie Award, the production just received a Daytime Emmy for outstanding achievement in sound mixing for the team of Daniel Pellerin, Andrew Tay and Ton van den…

The National Film Board’s Snow Cat, an animated short directed by Sheldon Cohen, is based on the children’s book by Dayal Kaur Khalsa, and is produced by Cohen, Kenneth Hirsch and Marcy Page….

When Toronto producers Paul Jay and Sally Blake of High Road Productions were planning to shoot a doc on the behind-the-scenes world of wrestling, they had no idea an unprecedented battle in the wrestling arena would emerge. And no clue the…

Jennifer Baichwal, director and producer of Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles, was an avid reader of Paul Bowles as a teenager. An ex-pat American composer and writer, Bowles has lived in Morocco for over 50 years. He…

The Specialty and Premium Television Association says its members are willing to take risks and launch new digital specialty services to a limited subscriber base, and will work to entice customers to satellite services, digital cable and wireless cable….

‘Ever since Pope John Paul ii, there’s been a turning point with the Catholic Church, an opening to new ideas, to relationships with other faiths,’ says Peter Flemington, vp of programming and development at Vision tv….

L’irian Jaya, a Radio-Canada production, is part of a new primetime weekly doc strand, Zone Libre. Most of the productions are produced in-house (75%) and the rest come from independents. (To the delight of producer Louise Lemelin and host Jean-Francois Lepine,…

Now in his fourth decade as a filmmaker, and one of the renowned animators of the National Film Board, director Pierre Hebert has often experimented with techniques to help draw audiences into his films….

Shot Through the Heart is the dramatic story of two best friends, Vlado Sarinsky and Slavko Simic, who were teammates on a professional Yugoslavian shooting team. During the war in Sarajevo, Vlado, a Croat married to a Muslim, finds out the…

While some may still consider words like bandwidth and convergence the stuff of twentysomething computer geeks, more and more television producers and broadcasters are trying to make sense of all the buzz about new media and interactive programming….