Saskatchewan-based Minds Eye Pictures has embarked on its first service production, the Trimark Pictures feature Inconvenienced….

Innovations planned for the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival include new services for producers seeking financing partners for projects in development….

The Comedy Network is producing an in-house pilot for an improvisational acting series hosted by the Devil’s Advocates – the infamous pair of comedians who don devilish costumes and share their sarcastic banter on Citytv’s Speakers Corner. The show is the…

In the recent Ontario government announcement that tvontario would not be privatized, the province committed to providing tvo with $48 million in funding for the ’98/99 fiscal, representing 80% of the public broadcaster’s $71-million operating budget….

The music was the first thing Tim Burns set to work on when he began adapting Mordecai Richler’s classic kids’ tale Jacob Two-Two Meets The Hooded Fang for the big screen….

Lifestyle-driven movies with a youth element have the best potential for a soundtrack deal, says Toronto music supervisor Ron Proulx, even if the films are put together on a shoestring budget. Small films, he says, can approach small indie labels and…

A successful bid for national cable carriage could see the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network spending over $6 million on Canadian programming in its first year….

Although a labor tax credit for the Alberta film and television industry is down and out, regional producers are optimistic they’ll find a way into the proposed ‘knowledge-based industries’ funding program still in play….

ACTRA Performers Guild has applied to Labour Canada to appoint a conciliator to bring to a close a seven-month contract dispute with the Institute of Canadian Advertising and Association of Canadian Advertisers over the expired Commercial Agreement….

Heading out of the 1998 Banff Television Festival’s Market Simulation, a&e and pbs are both courting Norflicks’ David Wesley and Pixcom’s Andre Barro for their doc series The French In America. Pitcher Glen Salzman of Montreal-based Cineflix is in negotiations with…

‘It is much more about the deal than the talent.’…

Banff: While the pitching frenzy was only beginning to heat up, at press time, the fruits of an intense few days of deal-making at the Banff Television Festival were starting to show….