Vancouver: The Working Opportunity Fund, a b.c. union-backed venture capital pool, has increased its investment in Vidatron Entertainment Group – the Vancouver-based producer of series Dead Man’s Gun, First Wave and So Weird – and has purchased a $600,000 debenture….

Vancouver: The Canadian Association of Broadcasters Gold Ribbon Awards were handed out Nov. 3 at a gala ceremony capping the cab’s 1998 convention, held Nov. 1-3 in Vancouver….

Vancouver: On Nov. 3, b.c.’s Minister of Finance Joy MacPhail declared the province’s new tax credits for domestic and foreign production unqualified successes in stimulating film and television production….

Vancouver: Producer Brian Hamilton of Vancouver’s Omni Film Productions is one of five b.c. producers to take part in the annual U.K. Immersion project, this year taking place in London the week of Nov. 16 and dedicated to documentary filmmakers….

Mission, B.C.: As Vancouver-based producer Chuck Lazer tells it, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy is the production that finally convinced the b.c. cabinet to introduce the Film Incentive b.c. tax credit this year….

Vancouver: Mercy Point – the upn series produced by Mandalay Television (and parent Lions Gate Pictures) in Vancouver – has been put on hiatus after only two aired episodes….

vancouver: The Market Incentive Program offered by funding agency British Columbia Film will close for new applications Nov. 6. It is the first time since it was created in 1995 that the fund has had to preempt the flow of business….

Vancouver: The Vancouver International Film Festival wound up its 17th year with a total audience of more than 130,000….

Vancouver: Zacharia Farted, a locally made road movie that created a lot of buzz during the Vancouver International Film Festival, has been invited to screen at the American Film Institute’s Los Angles International Film Festival on Oct. 23. It is scheduled…

Vancouver: It might look like a tax credit, but it ain’t. That’s the word on the proposed grant program that is expected to be offered to incentive-starved producers in Alberta in the next provincial budget….

Vancouver: A bid by the B.C. Council of Film Unions to create a separate collective agreement for low-budget Paramount and Warner Bros. projects has been rejected by the union membership….

Vancouver: Vancouver’s Mainframe Entertainment will release the first of two large-format, computer-animated features in 2000, the company announced yesterday….