The Canadian dollar is not going as far as it used to, but that hasn’t stopped L.A.-based compositing and visual effects boutique Gray Matter FX from opening an office in Vancouver.

New doc series about hip-hop and activism from Haddock Entertainment includes big names from music and Hollywood, including Cameron Diaz, Mos Def and Charlize Theron

The big-budget sci-fi Sanctuary has been playing on the little screen for sci-fi fans and netheads since May, but will hit the big screen at this fall’s Vancouver International Digital Festival

VIFF will give environmental award, while MPPIA and BC Film will support production of a short film

Insight Film Studios has three new projects shooting in B.C., including its first service shoot, National Lampoon’s Ratko: The Dictator’s Son.

Movie Central and The Movie Network are sending two limited series and a fourth round of ReGenesis to camera this summer.

The Vancouver shop has scooped the campus comedy Ratko: The Dictator’s Son away from Tennessee, taking on its first service-only job for the U.S. producers

The summer production slate of the pay channels includes the eight-parters ZOS and The Weight, and a new season of ReGenesis

The provincial government believes that Vancouver’s first studio will be better run privately

The cameras of Insight Film Studios are on a roll this spring as three MOWs and one full-length feature – all thrillers – lens in B.C.’s lower mainland.

Prolific and controversial producer/director Uwe Boll (Postal, BloodRayne) is at it again, and, on June 13, will begin shooting his seventh video game film adaptation Far Cry in B.C. On board again are Brightlight Pictures producers Shawn Williamson and Dan Clarke.

BloodRayne director Uwe Boll and Brightlight Pictures reteam for the action adaptation Far Cry, while distributors pick up Dungeon Siege and Seed