Vancouver: According to new Red Sky president and ceo Mike Smallwood, the Vancouver distributor is going through a ‘period of consolidation’ and won’t have a major release until January….

Vancouver: The Canadian Television Fund’s Licence Fee Program has announced projects offered assistance through the International Treaty Co-productions envelope….

Vancouver: Funding organization British Columbia Film has put its renovated development financing program on hold….

Vancouver: On May 8 in Vancouver, the first wave of 33 Leo Awards was handed out in the broadcast news and technical categories. Multiple winners included the information tv series Cosmic Highway, which won three Leos for an episode called ‘Zero…

Vancouver: u.s. specialty channel VH1 is embarking on its first movie project with Sweet Water, an mow to shoot in Vancouver May 25 to June 18….

Vancouver: The drama for most Canadian drama producers is over: offers were handed out to 90 separate drama titles last week from the Canadian Television Fund’s Licence Fee program….

Vancouver: DaVinci’s Inquest – a cbc series about a gritty coroner – came out the leader of the pack when it earned 11 Leo nominations. Feature film Rupert’s Land was a close second with 10 nominations….

Vancouver: The early Telefilm Canada eip funding letters for documentaries are in and Vancouver’s Paperny Films has a 75% success rate. lfp funding, of course, is still in question, but three new projects – worth $1.1 million in production budgets -…

Vancouver: In a surprise announcement this week, Rainmaker Entertainment Group of Vancouver said it is ‘in discussions’ to sell Vancouver-based Pacific Motion Pictures after owning it only nine months….

Vancouver: The week of April 6 was particularly bleak for Minds Eye Pictures of Regina….

Vancouver: Steady on, says the director of communications at CanWest Global, in response to recent media reports….

Vancouver: After the stellar success with its first and, to date, only dvd release – Super Speedway – Vancouver-based Big Picture DVD Productions is set to release seven new dvd titles by the fall….