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Film
Imax promotes Mark Welton to drive international growth
The Toronto-based giant screen exhibitor continues to diversify away from its North American base by signing partnerships with foreign cinema chains, especially in China, Russia and India.
Hot Docs to simulcast Canadian premieres
The Hot Docs Live! event will see China Heavyweight and Indie Game: The Movie screen in Cineplex Entertainment theatres across Canada.
Ottawa imposes escalating cuts on CBC, Telefilm and NFB
As the feds took a knife to the Canadian Heritage portfolio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. will see gradual cuts that grow to $115 million in 2014-15.
The Colony in production in Toronto and North Bay
The sci-fi thriller is shooting in studio and on location inside North Bay’s former NORAD base, the Underground Complex.
Canadian film industry still reeling from Saskatchewan tax credit cut
Critics of premier Brad Wall insist any new subsidy that is not bankable like a film credit will not fly in today’s foreign locations business.
Hot Docs announces pitch forum projects
Four Canadian documentaries, including TIFF Pitch This! winner Leone Stars, are among the 25 projects to be pitched during the Hot Docs Forum, taking place May 2 and 3.
In the writer’s room with Patricia Rozema
The writer and director talks to Playback about adapting reality to fiction, and moving between the writer’s room and the director’s chair, leading up to the Toronto Screenwriting Conference March 31 and April 1.
Ontario budget chops extend to local media sector
The Entertainment and Creative Cluster Partnerships Fund, a key source of funding for festivals and educational institutions with media programs, is to be phased out one year earlier than scheduled.
Saskatchewan premier won’t reverse decision to cut film tax credit
The province will consider alternative ways to subsidize the local film and TV sector, Brad Wall told an industry delegation Monday.
Shaw Media backs NSI $2,500 quarterly prize
The winner will be selected from films by female filmmakers that screen in each round of the festival.
Harold Greenberg Fund backs three short films as possible features
Gebriel Deneke’s Cul-de-Sac, Kim Miller-Pryce’s Baby Half Lie and Kobi Ntiri’s Fading will now be developed as possible feature-length dramas after they were finalists in Toronto’s City Life Film Project.
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films – March 16 to March 22, 2012
Goon is the top Canadian film for another week.
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