Heartland Motion Pictures of Regina is winding down its operations and closing its doors after 13 years of production….

Thomega Entertainment of Saskatoon is in post on Canada Remembers 2000, a one-hour documentary tribute to Canadian war veterans aimed at a demographic that ranges ‘from 16 to 80 – it’s a wide demographic, Canadians of all ages,’ says company president…

Competition is part of life for film students at Montreal’s Concordia University. Those in film production know they will have to fight to get their films made – just like in the real world, says Peter Rist, associate professor of film…

Richard Bourne of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology has no doubt what the purpose of the school is: to get graduates into jobs. ‘The focus is to find students jobs and good jobs with a future.’…

Cannes, France: Business was good all the way around at this year’s mipcom, with most participants attributing this surge to the multiplication of specialty channels. But the good news has a downside: plummeting program prices….

In the old joke on the subject, the punch line is ‘Because he can,’ but in MacLaren McCann’s ‘Dog’ for client Sony, the dog, umm…licks its testicles to make the audience cringe when he follows up with a slobber on his…

What is being billed as Saskatchewan’s biggest-budgeted feature film to date wrapped last month after a 36-day shoot in Regina, Lumsden and surrounding areas. It is likely to be only the first of many such projects coming to the province, according…

the merchandising of the animated children’s series Caillou has a distinctly Canadian story behind it. Based on a series of books popular in Quebec since their launch in 1990 (in which the star was a baby), Montreal’s Cinar purchased the rights…

Montreal’s CineGroupe approaches potential productions with merchandising foremost in mind: ‘It’s one of the determining factors in picking a property up. We have had merchandising plans on the cards ever since we picked up Mega Babies,’ says Marie-Christine Dufour, CineGroupe’s vp…

With a full-time licensing division in-house, Toronto’s Decode Entertainment is a perfect example of a smaller player partnering with international agents and reps. When it comes to the merchandising of Decode’s series (coproduced with C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures) Angela Anaconda, Honest Art…

In stock footage, everything old is new again as it becomes clear historical is where the action is….

Cannes, France: As specialty channels continue to multiply around the world, Canadians are well-positioned to reap the benefits. That was the overall message of the recently concluded mipcom, where Canadian vendors reported strong interest and numerous deals almost across the programming…