Vancouver: Now that pilot season is done and the manufacturing of film and television productions is proceeding, jockeying for locales has begun in earnest with nearly 30 projects currently scouting the West Coast as a production base. The genres are split…

Vancouver: Call the old Vancouver phone number for WIC Western International Communications and the receptionist answers ‘CW Shareholdings.’…

Vancouver: EnterCor Entertainment has signed a coproduction development deal with Johannesburg-based Sasani, a diversified entertainment company that provided production services for the Kim Basinger film I Dreamed of Africa….

Vancouver: The second and final awards night for the 2000 Leos on May 13 in Vancouver saw production titles like The New Addams Family, Stolen Lives, A Feeling Called Glory, Da Vinci’s Inquest and My Father’s Angel dominate….

Vancouver: The British Columbia Film Commission hosted a business development forum in London, Eng. May 17 to cultivate relationships between u.k. and b.c. producers….

Vancouver: Jamie Brown – a Canadian who lives in London, Eng., and owns production company Studio 8 – has brought more work to Vancouver. He’s the Canadian partner in u.k. coproduction deals with London’s Thomas Hedman (Europa Productions) for the us$15-million…

Vancouver: The 2000 Leo Awards gala event on May 13 honored veteran domestic film booster Michael Francis and the Pacific office of the National Film Board for their outstanding individual and organizational contributions to the British Columbia film industry. Francis, an…

Vancouver: The Ontario Film Development Corporation, Telefilm Canada and British Columbia Film are hosting the first of a series of interprovincial drama producer exchanges June 8 and 9 in Vancouver, prior to the June 11 Banff Television Festival….

Vancouver: The value of b.c.’s domestic production industry grew 78% in 1999 over the previous year. Total homegrown production reached $298 million….

Vancouver: The increasing number of independent filmmakers using digital video instead of film to capture their auteur visions need not think they are compromising their image quality….

Vancouver: Nominations for this year’s Leo Awards highlight the wide cross-section of production in British Columbia. In all, the nominations recognize 74 titles….

Vancouver: A new partner of Stratford Internet Technologies of Vancouver has purchased Urban Peasant Productions – maker of 650 22-minute episodes of the cbc cooking show Urban Peasant – and will remake the show for broadcast and webcast this September….