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Cheryl Binning
Winning women reflect on WIFT-T’s ongoing importance
The Crystal Awards, this year celebrating their 20th anniversary, were established to recognize and promote women working in film and TV, and they remain as relevant as ever, says Sadia Zaman, executive director of WIFT-T, which organizes them.
CBS involvement a ‘no-brainer’
They say imitation is the best form of flattery. And as a testament to the success of Flashpoint, the Canuck drama series is not only the talk of the town south of the border – it’s the series American producers are aiming to replicate.
Fall TV Report Card: Slow start for Rogers’ Citytv
Citytv is in the midst of its first full fall season under Rogers ownership, and the schedule has seen a major overhaul. Media buyers say the new programming direction at Citytv makes sense, but ratings have declined.
Groups to present united front at CRTC hearings
Industry unions and guilds are planning to present a united front at the spring CRTC licence renewal hearings for private over-the-air broadcasters, where they will collectively call for the reinstatement of Canadian drama expenditure requirements, which were removed by the commission in 1999.
Positive signs SAG strike will be averted
With a federal mediator meeting with the Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood studios, at press time there is renewed optimism that the impasse in the U.S. actor labor dispute may be broken and a strike averted.
Getting ‘hands-on’ with Canadian shows
Disney fare such as Zoey 101 and Hannah Montana are staples on Family Channel, but Canada’s premium, commercial-free specialty service has also spent some $162 million on indigenous productions since its launch 20 years ago.
Busy times at Insight
Vancouver shop on the go with mix of thrillers and sci-fi. ‘We are running on all cylinders,’ says Shaw
Financiers gloomy on film biz at VIFF Forum
It was doom and gloom among feature film financiers at the 23rd annual Vancouver Film and Television Forum (Sept. 24-27), the conference side of the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Sonoda shooting Beasts
VANCOUVER: Hot on the heels of the debut of his comedy Coopers’ Camera at the Toronto International Film Festival, director Warren Sonoda is back behind the camera on the fantasy flick Merlin & the Book of Beasts.
Volumes on par or down across provinces
As if a strong Canadian dollar, a potential Screen Actors Guild strike stateside and increased competition from U.S. tax-rebate states wasn’t a big enough challenge for the Canadian film and TV industry, the unfolding Wall Street crisis has added another unknown dimension, making it even trickier to predict production volume levels in upcoming months.
Worries out west over CTF
With its future perhaps in the balance as Canadians head to the polls, producers say the fund has done much to build business in the region
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