Hawk, a teen drama series (13 x 30) to be pitched at Banff’s Market Simulation ‘is like the concept of Are You Afraid of the Dark?,’ says producer Darlene Mulligan of Chikak Communications, Winnipeg. …

A man sneezes and what pours forth from him looks like tiny marines rarin’ to take a beach on …

This year’s field of 86 nominees for Rockie Awards includes only five Canadian-connected contenders. Nominations were winnowed from a field of more than 1,000 program entries and include such international luminaries as Friends, Frasier, The Sopranos and The West Wing….

The Women’s Television Network, recently purchased by Corus Entertainment for $205 million, was merely a twinkle in the eye a decade ago.
As early as 1989, Ron Rhodes, working as a ‘hired gun’ on the startup of the Family Channel, discerned a need for a channel that cast its net a little wider.
‘Although we called it the Family Channel we showed Disney movies. And I thought that we really needed a family channel that dealt with family issues and was information-based.’

The CanWest Western Independent Producers Fund initial round of grants has been announced and results include an interesting statistical blip: of the 107 applications received from the four Western provinces, 19 came from Saskatchewan. Of the 52 projects chosen for funding, nine are from the province.
Sandra Green at the CWIPF says she is heartened by the response from what has been to date the lowest-profile Prairie province.

The Okanagan is a lush area in inland British Columbia that markets itself as a summertime vacation destination. But this fall, a film set in the Okanagan might shoot in a location that makes for an unlikely stand-in: the Yukon.
Sean Williamson of Shavick Entertainment in Vancouver was one of the producers included on a familiarization tour organized by the Yukon Film Commission earlier this year. As a result of that tour, he is tentatively planning to return to the Yukon to shoot the feature film Peachland.

Vancouver is known as the location of choice for many service productions – but the homegrown filmmaking community is thriving. And the lifeblood of this resilient indigenous industry? Documentary….

Tween series AD2030 is one of those rarest of Prairie beasts: a Saskatchewan/Alberta/Manitoba coproduction. …

Calgary-based DB Entertainment’s titular president Doug Berquist, a filmmaker since 1973, is almost understated about the genesis of his two-year-old company….

CALGARY-based Nomadic Pictures has one project freshly wrapped and one gearing up to go before the cameras. …

New Brunswick is very busy of late, with three feature films on the books for spring and summer. …

PRINCE Edward Island, in an effort to encourage the development of the province’s crew infrastructure, has introduced a new labor rebate as a pilot program for 2001/02….