Studio and infrastructure development is part of an aggressive plan to boost production volume in Manitoba to $100 million by the year 2000….

The Arrow, a miniseries executive produced by Jack Clements and Victor Solnicky, is up for 13 prizes at the upcoming Blizzard Awards, a biannual event hosted by the Manitoba Motion Picture Industries Association to recognize achievement in the province’s film and…

For the Manitoba industry, crew training and development continues to be a high priority and is now coordinated by Film Training Manitoba, a project of mmpia, which offers workshops and on-set placements, provides entry-level training, development for existing crew, mentorship programs…

With the quick rise in production volume, the most pressing concern for Saskatchewan producers is a crew crunch. There is a shortfall of approximately 300 trained crew to fill positions on projects slated for production in 1999 and an additional deficit…

Edmonton: After a 12-year focus on the craft of short filmmaking, the Local Heroes Festival in Edmonton is evolving into a showcase for independent Canadian and international feature films….

Heritage Canada is considering reducing instead of scrapping the federal production services tax credit, a source close to the Feature Film Policy Review says….

Reports on the death of film tax shelters in Canada have been greatly exaggerated….

Total production activity in Canada tipped over the $3-billion mark for the first time in 1997/98, up from $2.9 billion the previous year, according to an economic profile of the industry prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers….

The Red Violin scooped up eight trophies at the 19th annual Genie Awards, including all the top honors – best motion picture for Rhombus Media producer Niv Fichman, best direction for Francois Girard, best screenplay for Don McKellar and Girard, as…

Cinema Esperanca principal Andre Bennett is expanding his focus on Canadian feature film production with seven projects shooting in 1999, worth over $11 million in production budgets….

Montreal-based distributor Remstar has opened a Toronto office and is gearing up for its first foray into feature film releasing and production in the English-language market. Vancouver’s Forefront Entertainment is in the midst of its first theatrical release and will also…

Alliance Cinemas’ 1999 expansion plans include six more screens in Toronto, four screens in Victoria, five screens in Calgary, and six screens in Edmonton. The buildup is worth $5 million, according to Alliance Cinemas president Leonard Schein….