Controversial Cannes winner about the Iranian revolution will open animation festival, in competition with over-the-top South Korean feature and a drug-addicted elephant

Shall we replay a game? Sequel to 1980s nuclear thriller War Games and movie version of Dead Like Me among titles to air on new pay channel, following deal with MGM

The eight Canadian films in Contemporary World Cinema are all looking for international distribution, with subject matter ranging wildly from gun addiction to gay ex-hockey players.

Actors union asks for a bigger slice of benefits to be set aside at close of CRTC hearings into Citytv purchase. ‘We want them to go further,’ says Hardacre

Cable giant sweetens the deal with another $2 million, but insists that taking the five Citytv stations will not go against CRTC rules

OTTAWA: The headhunting firm Egon Zehnder International has been hired by the federal government to look for a new president and CEO of CBC, to replace Robert Rabinovitch, whose second term ends in November.

Corus breaks ranks with other broadcasters over proposed new media fund, while CBC, producers and educasters take sides against splitting the fund in two. Public hearings likely, say sources

Breaking from the usual, some say too-political process, the feds have hired a private company to find a replacement for Robert Rabinovitch

Tories propose two to five years in prison for camcording a movie, but will the long-delayed bill pass before Parliament goes on summer vacation?

This year’s Banff World Television Festival is so content-rich that narrowing down which sessions to attend might be harder to solve than a murder on CSI. Nonetheless, we’ve done our investigating, and below present seven must-see events. Too bad you can’t set your PVR, because some of the sessions overlap.

CGM bends slightly in CHUM bid

The auditor general tells MPs that the network had 6,000 hours of unused and poorly managed programming in 2005, but defended Ottawa’s role in appointing its top execs