Montreal: Hans Fraikin admits he’s got his hands full. The film commissioner for the new Quebec Film and Television Council, marking his first six months in office, is working on a number of fronts, but most importantly in helping to resolve the dispute between the two technicians unions in the province.

Evil lurking beneath the veneer of suburbia is the theme of Durham County, a thriller series now shooting in Montreal with Muse Entertainment and Toronto’s Back Alley Films.

When Death of a President opens across North America on Oct. 27, Canadian and American audiences will be exposed to decidedly different marketing strategies.

The fifth annual Innoversity Summit will highlight aboriginals and the disabled in the workplace, while also looking to improve the development of media career professionals when the event returns to Toronto Oct. 23-24.

When the Festival du Nouveau Cinema unravels Oct. 18-28 in Montreal, it will unspool many noteworthy titles that also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Scriptwriter Jefferson Lewis (Mon amie Max) says adapting Emotional Arithmetic for the big screen was very daunting. The story follows three people who are separated by the Nazis during World War Two, to be reunited some 35 years later, and comes from the novel by the late Matt Cohen, a close friend of Lewis’.

Quebec actress-cum-filmmaker Carole Laure (CQ2) is shooting her latest feature, La Capture, in Montreal until Oct. 21.

The France/Canada copro Steak is expected to wrap on Oct. 14, ending six weeks in Montreal. Directed by Quentin Dupieux (Nonfilm), the sci-fi comedy is set in 2016, when facelifts are performed on most of the population. Popular French comedy team Eric et Ramzy star as two wannabe gangsters who hope the surgery will get them into exclusive gang clubs.

Montreal’s troubled World Film Festival wrapped on Sept. 4, ending its 12-day 30th edition with generally favorable reviews from industry attendees and local press, despite having gone a second year without funding from Telefilm Canada or SODEC.

Montreal: Shooting commences in Montreal this month on The Yellow Woman, the $5.3-million film directed by Émile Gaudreault and written by Steve Galluccio who previously collaborated on Mambo Italiano. The comedic drama follows a woman’s efforts to reconnect with her dying mother.

Montreal: A long list of famous actors are in Montreal, all to appear in the Bob Dylan sort-of biopic I’m Not There by Todd Haynes (Safe, Far from Heaven). Haynes, true to his oddball form, has cast six different actors as the iconic singer-songwriter, among them Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett. The production is shooting at Mel’s Cité du Cinéma.

Serge Losique was overwhelmed with emotion on Aug. 24, the night the 30th anniversary edition of his World Film Festival kicked off at the Place des Arts complex in downtown Montreal.