With natpe opening in New Orleans Jan. 25, pages 33-35 look at some of the new projects coming from Cuppa Coffee Animation, Evening Sky Entertainment, Catalyst Entertainment and Calibre Digital Pictures….

Vancouver: Mainframe Entertainment of Vancouver has acquired the rights to Gene Roddenberry’s Starship, an original concept by the creator of Star Trek….

A new national equity investment fund announced by Shaw Communications will hand out over $3 million in its first year to support children’s, youth and family programming…

With a first season under their belt, the newest crop of tier three kidcasters are playing it safe in year two with only minor tweaks to their schedules, whereas veteran ytv is taking some chances and freshening up its image with…

Animation has bombarded the children’s tv landscape over the past few years and the influx of high-budget, flashy cgi has led some to question the fate of live-action kids’ programming. The marketplace has not been overly encouraging, with animation being far…

As the broadcast landscape evolves, private station groups such as WIC Western International Communications, Craig Broadcasting and the CHUM Group are capitalizing on the holes in local news programming, while educational broadcasters are finding an increased role as outlets for regional…

ACCESS, Tele-Quebec, Television Northern Canada and tvontario, scn and Knowledge Network have joined in a lobby group, the Association for Tele-Education in Canada, which is pressing for some major changes in the Canadian Television Fund’s funding guidelines to recognize educational broadcasters…

The Characters talent agency has embarked on an expansion effort that includes the opening of a packaging division and the buyout of the Connie Winkelman agency….

The world premiere of Vancouver director Michael Rohl’s first feature, Zacharia Farted, and Justin MacGregor’s The Vigil are among the 93 Canadian films chosen to screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival, opening Sept. 25 and running until Oct. 10….

Budget cutbacks and a 1996 restructuring have led some in the animation community to question the future role of the National Film Board in independent, auteur-driven animation production….

High Road Productions’ Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows has been chosen as the opening night film at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, running Oct. 19-25 in Sheffield, Eng….

Scripts from British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta filmmakers have been chosen for the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters’ biannual screenplay competition, which pairs up the winning writers with veteran story editors for an intense script analysis process….