Vancouver: In Year 2000, Vancouver Film School is offering 12 full tuition scholarships – worth a total of $174,000, the largest giveaway in the school’s 13-year history – to would-be filmmakers in the u.s. and Canada. Two scholarships will be handed…

Vancouver: Yaletown Entertainment has doubled its exploration of the bizarre, as new series Weird Wheels joins the ongoing series Weird Homes….

Vancouver: The trickle has become a flood. While some series tests have come and gone already this calendar year, Vancouver is officially in full pilot season….

Vancouver: Only one thing is certain about the West Coast television landscape: four of the five terrestrial stations are in play and the mess is in the lap of the crtc to sort out….

Vancouver: Mainframe Entertainment shares were racking up new 52-week highs last week as the glow of media mega-mergers put the focus on content providers….

Vancouver: If sheer elbow grease earns you credibility in the movie business then Miridien Filmed Entertainment will have Hollywood at its feet. Okay, an exaggeration, but the Vancouver-based, low, low, low-budget production company – which amalgamated Jan. 20 with equally budget-conscious…

Vancouver: British Columbia’s production community eclipsed the magic $1-billion milestone in 1999 with a 32% increase from 1998’s production tallies. A total of $1.07 billion worth of direct spending was generated by 198 film and television productions in the province in…

Vancouver: A steady supply of American feature productions is going to be required should b.c. be able to meet or beat its 1999 production tally of $1 billion in direct spending….

Vancouver: Actor Paul Gross will return to Canadian primetime this fall in a new comedy-drama series tentatively called Steelstring, which has been ordered by ctv. Sources confirm that the Due South star will play a burned-out rock star who becomes a…

Vancouver: The B.C. Council of Film Unions – which represents the 10,000 members of the technical union IATSE Local 891, camera union IATSE Local 669 and Teamsters Local 155 – has signed its third Master Collective Agreement with Canadian and u.s….

Vancouver: Harvey Entertainment, the publisher that owns the rights to Ritchie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost and a host of other classic cartoon characters, has engaged Vancouver’s Mainframe Entertainment to produce the cgi video release Casper’s Haunted Christmas….

Vancouver: u.s. broadcasters have been swift to embrace a Vancouver-made documentary that puts a new face on urban police….