Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma opened with Guillaume Sylvestre’s culinary doc Durs à cuire, with 15 works slated for the Canada program

Le Banquier host Julie Snyder has a magic touch with Quebec TV, and is making gains for TVA on Sunday nights. But SRC stalwart Tout le monde en parle is holding its own

Movie Central programmer Erica Benson says the company’s commitment in the west is unchanged despite layoffs and closure of Vancouver office

Christal Films is living high on the hog with Les p’tits cochons, which has made more than $4 million at the Quebec box office, thanks to its principals and long-term marketing plan

Outspoken organizer at Montreal festival sniffs at $249,000 cheque from Telefilm. ‘We would have preferred more. It’s not a lot for an international festival,’ says Cauchard

Western Canada’s independent production community is worried about the future after Corus Entertainment closed its Movie Central office in Vancouver this week and let go staff, including head of creative affairs Shelley Gillen.

Unmonitored online content undermines the Broadcasting Act, CRTC should get serious about Internet, says study by Quebec industry groups

Experimental and interactive films among the selections as Festival du Nouveau Cinéma unveils plans for 36th installment. ‘Amazing discoveries’ to be screened, says Claude Chamberlan

Broadcast and post-production departments reshuffled, interactive team moved over to Nelvana. Acquisitions and originals merged at kiddie cables and Movie Central

When producer André Rouleau read the script for Magique, a France/Canada copro about a melancholic rural family that gets a surprise visit from a traveling circus, he knew it would be a very original film.

O’Farrell defends simultaneous substitution while ACTRA cheers ‘first glimmer of hope’ following Thursday’s bombshell from Ottawa

Simultaneous substitution and cable bundling bad for business, industry needs ‘smart regulation,’ say authors of 300-page report