The Canadian Film and Television Production Association has added some new members to its board of directors. Linda Schuyler continues as chair; the rest of the executive and committee chairs will be announced in June….

When Violet turns 55, she’s convinced she’s going to die. That’s the premise of Violet: A Comedy about Death, now in development by producer Mary Sexton (Dooley Gardens) of Dark Flowers Productions, St. John’s, Nfld….

The cbc’s business relationship with independent producers, its access to the Canadian Television Fund, its regional presence, and even its licence term will be under intense scrutiny when the public broadcaster begins three weeks of licence renewal hearings later this month….

Substantial oversubscription. That’s how Telefilm executive director Francois Macerola describes the documentary envelope within the Canadian Television Fund’s Equity Investment Program….

Minister of Human Resources Development Pierre Pettigrew has announced that $600,000 is being made available through the Canadian Film and Television Production Association for a film and tv internship program. The program will provide 50 unemployed and underemployed youths aged 15-30…

When Veronica Tennant approached Rhombus Media with the suggestion that the National Ballet of Canada’s production of The Four Seasons should be remounted for television, the idea was soon added to the award-winning arts production company’s slate….

Entering its sixth year, Hot Docs is shifting its industry focus to a broader mandate, hoping to attract a wide public audience and lure more international filmmakers and broadcast executives to the event….

When the Canadian Independent Film Caucus was first organized by a group of 10 Toronto filmmakers in 1983, there were few television slots devoted to documentaries, no specialty channels and only a handful of film festivals celebrating documentaries in Canada….

French-language independent filmmakers in Quebec are getting a boost from Telefilm Canada’s provincial office: it is setting aside $1 million within its French-language feature film fund envelope for projects with budgets of $1 million or less….

Independent filmmmakers in the Maritimes may just get the break they’ve been looking for, now that Telefilm Canada’s Atlantic office has created the Emerging Filmmakers Program. The new program for filmmakers in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince…

A proposed new permit fee for location shooting in the City of Toronto has led a number of industry advocacy groups to warn that an additional charge could dull Toronto’s attraction as a centre for domestic and foreign production….

Ottawa is not usually the first place people think of when talking about major centers of television production, but that may soon change with the arrival of Citytv affiliate The New ro. The new station is pumping some fresh blood into…