Robert Cooper, head of feature film development and production at DreamWorks skg, has left the company to form Cooper Entertainment, which plans to develop and produce feature films and tv projects in the u.s. and Canada….

‘A producer walks a tightrope, balancing the financing and the creative,’ said Icon Productions president Bruce Davey, kicking off tiff’s Rogers Symposium as the keynote speaker Sept. 13….

The long road traveled by Colleen Murphy’s feature film desire to its just-wrapped Winnipeg shoot began two years ago in Germany at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival….

Sarah Polley, Brendan Fletcher and Diane Ladd are set to lead the cast in John Greyson’s Law of Inclosures, coproduced by Winnipeg’s Buffalo Gal Pictures and Damon D’Oliveira….

In a reversal of the typical tv movie-pilot-followed-by-a-series scenario, the long-running cbc series North of 60 is enjoying new life – and pulling in viewers – as an anthology of mows, the latest installment just wrapping production in Bragg Creek, Alta….

the National Screen Institute-Canada is set to launch a second round of the Features First program, which will take five teams of emerging filmmakers from across Canada through an individually customized skills training and feature film project development program….

Poptronik Incorporated, a recently launched film, tv, multimedia and music company in Toronto, is in late development on a slate of feature films and an Internet game….

With the recent announcement of a five-year, $30-million commitment to feature films, cbc is looking to up the ante in its role in financing Canadian movies, as are other broadcasters across the spectrum of regional, pay and specialty services….

The Canadian Television Fund’s breakdowns of funding to the documentary sector show combined oversubscription to the tune of $23.3 million….

nelvana’s us$40-million deal to produce six animated series for pbs’s new Saturday morning kids’ block is part of the company’s strategic plan to increase shelf space for its proprietary projects, gain a hold over the u.s. preschool market, and increase merchandising…

New projects from Rhombus Media, Productions La Fete, Tapestry Films and Triptych Media are among 18 films receiving support in the latest round of script development funding at the Harold Greenberg Fund. This is the fourth installment of funding in its…

CanWest Global Communications’ just-launched new media division will move on three fronts: developing its own new media products and services, investing in other Web-based companies, and teaming up on joint ventures in Internet services….