Following on the critical success of their first features, Vancouver filmmakers Carl Bessai (johnny), James Dunnison (Stuff) and Reg Harkema (A Girl is a Girl), begin production May 15 on a trilogy of experimental low-budget digital films called Bang!….

Kim Todd’s recently launched production company Original Pictures has landed its first project – the $25-million family feature Ogopogo, to be shot this summer in Winnipeg….

Edmonton: Emerging and veteran filmmakers from Canada and abroad met over eight days at the Local Heroes International Film Festival in Edmonton to share their experiences making films and getting them on the big screen. They also had the opportunity to…

Western Canada has long been known for documentary filmmaking and cinematographers with a particular talent for capturing stunning scenery and the unexpected moments found in unscripted location settings….

The Alberta film industry has completed its biggest year ever, with more than $254 million in production activity recorded in the province in 1999….

The Manitoba production community is currently facing the growing pains that always accompany an industry attempting to expand its volume and grow its infrastructure. Production and post companies have established themselves and are now working on two fronts: aiming to keep…

Production volume in Saskatchewan dipped in 1999 to $27 million from $58 million the previous year. In particular, indigenous production dropped more than 50% to $20.2 million from $42.7 million in 1998….

Crew Call, a new initiative to grow the industry’s skilled workforce just announced by the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Industries Association will be backed by $350,000 in funding from the federal and provincial governments….

Winnipeg: Canadian films, Canadian filmmakers, and opportunities for emerging Canadian talent to make the leap from shorts to long-form television and feature filmmaking was the focus at the Local Heroes Canadian Film Festival in Winnipeg, Feb. 27 to March 4….

Winnipeg: ytv has licensed Credo Entertainment’s 13-part action adventure series SpyFly. The project is a Canada-u.k. coproduction with Winklemania out of Oxford, England. itv has taken broadcast rights for the u.k. Combining live action with some cgi, the kids series centres…

Winnipeg: Kim Todd has left Credo Entertainment and opened her own Winnipeg-based production house, Original Pictures….

Winnipeg: Global Television has licensed a five-part documentary series, Without Warning, from Edmonton-based Great North Productions’ Vancouver subsidiary, Great North Pacific….