Screenwriter Simon Barry has come home to Canada. After a decade in L.A., the B.C. native has flown the lucrative Hollywood coop and is back in Vancouver, at work on deals with Universal Studios and DreamWorks.

VANCOUVER — Getting a best visual effects Gemini nom for Stargate: Atlantis has turned VFX supervisor Mark Savela into a believer.

Audiences set a box-office record for the Vancouver festival this year, and gave top marks to environmentally minded titles including Garbage Warrior from the U.K. as well as the animated Persepolis

Global’s upcoming B.C.-shot action series looks to go head-to-head with the U.S. competition when it airs in March

Fujian Blue by Robin Weng and Mid-Afternoon Barks by Zhang Yuedong share the prize in the Vancouver International Film Festival’s Asian spotlight, which was marred by visa problems for three other Chinese filmmakers

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s 22nd annual Gemini Awards gala is heading to Regina for the first time with a new CEO, a new chair, a new CBC host for the gala – George Stroumboulopoulos – and another first: tickets are available to the general public.

CBC has moved the crime drama off Tuesdays — away from House but up against Heroes — with little promotion. ‘It deserves to be seen by Canadians who pay for it,’ says Haddock

Once and returning chairman heralds ‘new chapter’ at Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, speaks of need to reach into ‘the corners of our country’

Vancouver festival kicks off with WWII melodrama starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy

VIFF is poised to reassert its foothold in nonfiction programming with 84 documentary features – including 40 premieres – aiming to satisfy Vancouver’s insatiable appetite for truth.

B.C.’s nonfiction filmmakers are center stage at VIFF with five world premieres about radically different subjects.

In 2002, Canadian Yung Chang went on one of the so-called ‘farewell cruises’ along the Yangtze River with his parents and grandfather. It was a common trip for tourists to see the area before it was to be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam, and the voyage became the catalyst for the feature doc Up the Yangtze.