They may be pint-sized productions, but the market for short films is growing taller, says the organizer of Toronto’s Worldwide Short Film Festival….

Alliance Communications thinks it has found a gold mine in The Inheritance, a Louisa May Alcott manuscript it acquired with Cosgrove/Muerer Productions last week….

Pebblehut Productions has a full slate of productions for this spring and summer….

For producer/director Gary Marcuse of Face to Face Media in Vancouver, turning his documentary into a ‘multipurpose project’ was essential in making it financially feasible. The one-hour, award-winning Mind of a Child is about a breakthrough in the teaching of aboriginal…

Filmmaking has always taken a lot of creativity. However, it’s not just the scriptwriting, art direction, set decorating and costumes that require great amounts of imagination….

Blackwatch Communications, a Montreal-based company, has designed an innovative plan for private investors to buy into films….

3 Themes-ewm’s Daniele J. Suissa and Donald Martin, executive producer of Women, Lifestyle & Money, launched the television series after a lengthy process of piecing together $350,000 for 13 episodes….

The government’s long-awaited copyright bill, tabled April 25, left organizations such as actra and the Canadian Music Publishers Association humming a happy tune. However, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters is singing the blues – not for what the bill contains but…

Telefilm Canada’s recent announcement that it is taking further steps to increase Canadian content, cut administrative costs, and is redirecting funds for marketing and versioning of foreign films is seen by the those in the production and distribution industry as a…

Atlantis Films posted a 19% revenue increase in fiscal 1995, but due to a devaluing of its program library, earnings were at a net loss of $10.5 million compared to net earnings of $7.9 million in 1994….

The Canadian Film and Television Production Association called upon its members to get the word out to the public and the government on the important role the independent production industry plays in the Canadian economy and vowed to take a large…

Under current threat of privatization, tvontario appears to be working hard to keep the government wolf from the door. Two recent deals indicate the network is adopting strategies to take control of its financial future, keep revenues up and expenses down….