Variety, music and comedy producer extraordinaire, Sandra Faire, and SFA Productions are producing a feature film….

Toronto-based Cambium Film and Video’s proposed merger with Vancouver wholesale video and theatrical distributor TSC Shannock has failed due to unacceptable terms associated with a $3-million private placement that Cambium had to raise, says Cambium chairman and executive producer Arnie Zipursky….

Following a meeting between cftpa president Elizabeth McDonald, chair Linda Schuyler and Baton Broadcasting ceo Ivan Fecan, the cftpa plans to ‘positively acknowledge’ ctv’s recent Canadian programming contributions in front of the crtc at the upcoming Canadian Television Policy Review hearings….

Robert Cousins has left his post as director of production at Toronto’s Accent Entertainment to form a new production company with former Barna-Alper director of development David Weaver. The new enterprise is called A Sight Unseen….

Toronto upstart Annex Entertainment has formed a joint venture with Toronto-based action movie producer Film One Productions to produce and distribute several projects together….

Operating as what Alliance Communications’ Robert Lantos calls a ‘parallel distribution track,’ Odeon Films (formerly Cineplex Odeon Films) hits the Toronto International Film Festival this year with new ownership in the form of a 75% equity stake held by Alliance….

Feature producers lost in the Canadian theatrical distribution fog have a new flare to sail by with the debut of Toronto-based distributor Beacon Releasing….

Robert Cousins has left his post as director of production at Toronto’s Accent Entertainment to form a new production company with former Barna-Alper director of development David Weaver. The new enterprise is called A Sight Unseen….

A small yet auspicious force in the Canadian entertainment industry, Triptych Media hits this year’s Toronto International Film Festival without a film to screen but looking to shore up financing and coproduction deals for its slew of projects in development….

Alliance Communications has created an acquisitions department and promoted Charlotte Mickie to senior vp acquisitions and development, Alliance Motion Picture Group….

Outgoing Alliance Communications chairman and ceo Robert Lantos’ new production company is to be called Serendipity Point….

Is your film hip, young and aggressive? Is it perhaps too risque for Miramax and Fine Line’s parent companies? Maybe you should talk to the revamped u.s.-based Artisan Entertainment….