For the past 10 years Playback has asked Canadian film and television companies what they spent on independent production in the previous calendar year….

For the past 10 years Playback has asked Canadian film and television companies what they spent on independent production in the previous calendar year….

A crew crunch and a $1-million cut to Saskfilm’s annual funding are the challenges facing the Saskatchewan production community in the wake of a film and tv labor-based tax credit announcement….

Toronto-based public prodco Fireworks Entertainment and privately held New Brunswick management company MEG Entertainment have entered into a joint-venture agreement to set up a production company in Fredericton, n.b….

Edmonton: The Alberta-based National Screen Institute is embarking on an expansion effort which will see the development of a festival in Manitoba, the contracting out of nsi training initiatives to other provinces across the country, and the internationalization of its flagship…

Edmonton: ‘A filmmakers love-in’ is how CBC Reflections short film programmer Tara Ellis dubs the National Screen Institute’s Local Heroes Festival, which wrapped March 14 in Edmonton after seven days of short film and indie feature screenings, q&as with directors, and…

Registration for the first annual MIPDOC Documentary Programme Screenings has hit 500, with Canada the third largest representation at 28 companies….

In This Report…

Screenings, industry conferences and awards have established Hot Docs! on the festival circuit, but as it marks its fifth anniversary, the push is on to develop the international coproduction and financing opportunities at the documentary festival….

The Ontario Centre of the National Film Board, like its counterparts Documentary East and West, has a difficult balancing act in play….

– Among the American Hot Docs! attendees is a&e’s Amy Briamonte, who will be scouting for the Sunday Night Specials and Investigative Reports strands….

After a long-running lobby effort for provincial tax credits, agency representatives and producers in Alberta and Saskatchewan say new labor incentives for film and television production are in sight….