Salter Street: No one ever said being a Canadian independent producer was easy, especially in the fiscally restrained nineties. But in 1996 there were a few bright spots to speak of, particularly $100 million of new money in the Canada Television…

David Cronenberg’s commercial and controversial Crash towed away the most statues at the 1996 Genies Awards with a total of five ­ including the Golden Reel Award for the top Canadian box office gross ­ but John Greyson’s Lilies, which had…

The financial plans for 13 children’s projects are in limbo in the wake of news that their access to the federal tax credit could be denied because the Shaw Children’s Programming Initiative is one of the investors….

As the cast and crew of Sullivan Entertainment’s Wind At My Back get a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel production-wise, Kevin Sullivan and Trudy Grant have bought outright the Scarborough facility that’s been home to the…

Across the street, people are lining up for a free meal during the evening sitting at St. Francis’ Table. It’s not yet 5:30 but it’s already dark in Parkdale, a west Toronto neighborhood that’s not inviting after the sun goes down,…

The Nova Scotia production community is anxiously awaiting an announcement regarding the new ceo of the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, a replacement for Roman Bittman who was ousted by the corporation’s board of directors earlier this year….

Phil Lind, chairperson of the Canada Television and Cable Production Fund, has released more transitional guidelines as agreed to by the Cable Production Fund and Telefilm Canada, the two organizations administering the fund. The ctcpf’s transitional period ends March 31, 1997….

He’s a Canadian legend who ran fast. And there were no steroid scandals to mar his reputation….

This year, with a slate of relatively commercial films vying for best picture and a broadcast date which happily coincides with many of the films still in theaters, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television is smiling about the Genies….

‘They have a definite edge, a contemporary urgency, and they’re original,’ says Wayne Clarkson, executive director of the Canadian Film Centre….

The smell of maple syrup hangs thick in the air at the Apple Griddle diner on Dundas at Keele. The crew of Norstar’s Pale Saints has mostly forsaken the craft table, preferring instead to whip up heaping stacks of pancakes on…

Toronto’s Noble House Entertainment, a union of two Canadian companies – theatrical producer/ distributor Richmond House and multimedia distributor United Multimedia – commenced public trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange Oct. 9 under the symbol nblh….