Winnipeg’s Buffalo Gal Pictures is wrapping its second consecutive Manitoba/Ontario coproduction, while a third joint venture with a Toronto company begins preproduction….

The latest in innovative ways to raise budgets for feature film and tv projects is the subject of discussion at Creative Financing For Film and Television, a one-day conference produced by Brunico Marketing Inc….

With a few years under their belts, the specialty channels catering to kids have had time to stake out their ground on the broadcasting scene. Meanwhile, the conventional broadcasters and veteran specialties have been looking to forge their own identifiable niche…

Over the 1998/99 fiscal, the Shaw Children’s Programming Initiative committed more than $8.6 million to 63 children’s projects through the Shaw Fund, the Dr. Geoffrey R. Conway Fund, and the new Shaw Television Broadcast Fund….

Minds Eye Pictures of Regina is beefing up its feature film slate with the launch of a low-budget genre division….

Saskatchewan producers have sent a preliminary proposal to the provincial government to attach a 5% post-production bonus to the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit….

Preproduction begins this January in Winnipeg on Without A Word, a Minds Eye Pictures service production starring Patrick Swayze. The $7-million picture is a contemporary Flashdance-type story from l.a.-based Franchise Pictures. Principal photography begins in March 2000….

‘It was an organic evolution,’ says Gil Cardinal, looking back at the chain of events that led to his first experience directing a tv miniseries, Big Bear, and which led to a 1999 Gemini nomination….

‘The real discovery I have made over the last couple of years is collaboration – it’s all about collaboration in every possible way,’ says writer/director Tim Southam of the filmmaking process….

Shooting Milgaard in Winnipeg, where much of the prison saga of wrongfully convicted teenager David Milgaard actually unfolded, made for ‘an intensely creative experience,’ says director Stephen Williams….

‘A television hack – that’s what I am,’ says Toronto director Stefan Scaini, whose episodic television work spans dramatic shows such as Street Legal, Side Effects, Forever Knight and Fast Track to family series like Ready or Not, My Secret Identity,…

Just over three years ago, director Raymond Saint-Jean and producer Michel Ouellette of Montreal-based Cine Qua Non Films heard about a series of one-hour documentaries on French writers being commissioned out of France….