For mid-sized production companies based in Vancouver, the advantages of their location seem to outweigh the disadvantages….

With competition for audience recognition intense, broadcast design is more important than ever. And for broadcasters intent on maximizing their broadcast design resources, in-house teams make a lot of sense for reasons such as economics, a familiarity with corporate goals and…

Mutual manipulation is part of life for writers and directors. At least, that was one key lesson from the recent Script to Screen conference held in Toronto….

When the Canadian Film and Television Production Association was formed in 1990 out of a merger of the two industry groups that had until then been uneasily splitting the territory between them, everyone knew the time had come for a united…

Balance in a quest for stability: that was top of mind in the early years of the cftpa….

Breakthrough Film and Television’s Ira Levy, chair of the cftpa’s industrial relations committee, certainly has a crowded plate. However, the committee, charged with the delicate task of balancing industrial relations with a range of players, has the advantage of newly appointed…

The broadcast relations committee of the cftpa is charged with a wide brief, but perhaps the issue top of mind for committee chair and Ellis Entertainment Corporation president Stephen Ellis’ is the development of a terms of trade agreement with the…

A wise man once said that the only constant is change. When it comes to prints and advertising, most distributors agree, the only commonality is difference….

Recent years have seen a major overhaul of the look, content and quantity of movie theatres in Canada. A consumer who hadn’t been to the movies since 1996 – if you could find one – would be shocked by the changes:…

Challenge is a concept most Canadian filmmakers are familiar with. But not perhaps challenges quite as intense as those experienced by the makers of Genie nominations stand-out Sunshine….

Jeremy Podeswa, producer, writer and director of best motion picture Genie nominee The Five Senses, tells a great story about the first public screening of his film. But first he had to get it there….

The idea for best motion picture Genie nominee eXistenZ, with its superstar game designer on the run and its interweaving themes of reality and delusion, sprang from Salman Rushdie’s continuing persecution. Nothing to do with Keanu Reeves….