Vancouver: The b.c. government removed project caps and shrunk the definition of the Lower Mainland in its April 14 announcement of Film Incentive b.c., the new provincial tax credit for domestic producers….

Vancouver: Two years ago, Vidatron Entertainment in Vancouver produced five hours of television and in 1997 about 26. This year with an ambitious production slate, the company will complete about 70 hours, marking a 1,400% increase in television production since 1996…

Vancouver: In the wake of high-profile worksite tragedies in the b.c. film industry, a Workers’ Compensation Board-sponsored association has been formed to foster greater safety and health awareness throughout the entertainment businesses….

Vancouver: North Vancouver producer Nick Orchard has two series renewals and one new series to increase his exposure next fall….

Vancouver: The Canadian Consulate General in Los Angeles has sponsored a review of l.a.-based animation houses for Canadian animators seeking to forge business relationships down south….

Vancouver: The B.C. Chapter of the Directors Guild of Canada is advocating sober second thought on b.c. matching Ontario’s 11% production services tax credit for foreign producers….

Vancouver: Nilus the Sandman animator Chris Delaney is selling the Manila studio where he, in part, produced the first 13 episodes of the children’s show on Family Channel….

Vancouver: Vancouver-based Voyageur Film Capital Corp. listed on the Alberta Stock Exchange earlier this month and, as its first order of business, folded in Vancouver-based Cambridge Films. Voyageur is majority owned by Shelley Kirk and Kathleen Martin, two of the three…

Vancouver: Vancouver service producer James Shavick and coproducer Victoria Woods will cram 65 half-hours of The Addams Family into a 13-month production schedule that begins April 7….

Vancouver: Video equipment rental company Sim Video West has moved into larger space at Lions Gate Studio in North Vancouver….

There is an old business adage that goes something like this: ‘It’s not good enough to simply do a good job; you have to be seen to be doing a good job.’…

Vancouver: Because Mainframe Entertainment jumped the gun and made production deals without the full knowledge of the new ctcpf guidelines coming into effect April 14, the Vancouver-based animator now has to scramble to find up to $8 million in new financing….