Vancouver: Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment is increasing the financing expertise on its board of directors at the same time as it solidifies a business plan that will keep it solely in post services….

Vancouver: B.C.’s Whistler ski resort will host the first annual Whistler International Film and Television Festival Nov. 16-19, 2000….

Vancouver: Yet another founding member of Red Sky Entertainment has left swiftly and under unhappy terms….

Vancouver: The two-year-old Victoria Film Commission has fewer than 60 days to come up with $100,000 or it will have to close its doors, a prospect that would deflate (at least the optimism of) the present and expanding balloon of production…

Vancouver: Just days before the ACTRA Performers Guild went into its last scheduled round of negotiations with producers in Calgary last weekend, members set up a $1-million strike fund to back up the strike mandate approved by 96% of members late…

Vancouver: As part of the cross-country series of launches previewing the National Film Board’s 1999/2000 season and celebrating the board’s 60th anniversary, the Pacific Centre office unveiled its slate of work in Vancouver June 1….

Vancouver: The b.c. government is on the attack against the federal government’s paper called The Road to Success: The Report of the Feature Film Advisory Committee that was tabled in January….

Vancouver: In filing an application for a new television licence in Vancouver, Rogers Broadcasting has sparked a new competition….

Vancouver: Texas Rangers – a feature by Miramax that is already in production in Calgary – is the first official signatory to the ‘Gold Book Interim Agreement’ being offered by ACTRA Performers Guild to producers hedging against a national strike that…

Vancouver: The biggest miniseries ever to shoot in b.c. went to camera April 19 and will wrap July 7, before heading off for a few days of production in New York City….

Vancouver: The 1999 Moving Pictures: Canadian Films On Tour wrapped May 10 in Quesnel, b.c. with a 33% increase in attendance compared with 1998 audience tallies….

Vancouver: The initial panic over a potential national actors strike seems to be subsiding now that ACTRA National is signing interim agreements while Independent Production Agreement talks continue….