Pamela Cuthbert

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Toronto International Film Festival 1997 Daily Playback: Screen Surveillance

This column highlights titles that are attracting buyer interest….

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Toronto International Film Festival 1997 Daily Playback: Screen Surveillance

This column highlights titles that are attracting buyer interest….

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Toronto International Film Festival 1997 Daily Playback: Screen Syrveillance

This column highlights titles that are attracting buyer interest….

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Toronto International Film Festival 1997 Daily Playback: Screen Surveillance

this column highlights festival titles that are attracting the interest of buyers and distributors….

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Toronto International Film Festival 1997 Daily Playback: ScreenSurveillance

This column highlights festival titles that are attracting the interest of buyers and distributors….

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PolyGram controversy escalates

Michael Kuhn, president of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, stirred the controversy over PolyGram’s efforts to establish a film distribution office in Canada when he addressed a packed house at the Toronto International Film Festival’s trade Symposium and slated the local attitudes as…

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Special Report: Toronto International Film Festival: Diary: Mehta: trial by Fire

At times, filmmaker Deepa Mehta must have felt she was walking on hot coals to get her latest feature made. There was no question, she wanted to shoot Fire in India with an Indian cast. It meant she was not eligible…

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Special Report: Toronto International Film Festival: Diary: L’Escorte

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Perspective: Donovan leading the Atlantic pack

Things are going swimmingly for Atlantic Canada’s film and tv industry. The evidence is everywhere. Audio production companies and post houses are starting up – as are film commissions….

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Ontario Scene: Saying hello to Disney; and Pam says au revoir

Although animators are supposed to be in hotter demand than sun, there seems to be time in betweening for wild speculation, the latest toon rumors running the gamut from Warner Bros. and DreamWorks coming to Canada, to rumors linking Disney and…

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Special Report on Distribution & Exhibition: Bidding wars create `vicious circle’

With Canadian films accounting for a minuscule portion of the national box office market (anywhere from 3% to 6%, depending on who you talk to), it is no surprise that for any thriving Canadian distributor, getting ahold of some hot, foreign…

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Minor OFDC funds pared

Two of the Ontario Film Development Corporation’s smaller funds have been chopped, and while there is nothing good about the loss, reading between the lines suggests there is hope for the future of the provincial agency….