The association will now be called the Motion Picture Association Canada, or MPAC.
To encourage film and TV production in the province, SaskFilm launched its Film Friendly Saskatchewan initiative Monday night.
Seven24 Films and Clearwater Documentary win big Saturday night, taking home the most trophies at the 37th annual awards gala.
The distributor has a busy festival, as it picks up rights to Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii, and Taylor Hackford’s Parker, among others.
An American short about a man’s hidden passion for dance has snagged the $1,500 Shortsnonstop cash prize from the CFC.
The creature feature grossed $2.1 million in Canadian box office last year, and $26.9 million at the worldwide cash register.
Comedy/horror A Little Bit Zombie is beginning principal photography in Sudbury, Ontario, marking the feature film debut of director and producer Casey Walker.
The ceremony took place in front of a sold out crowd at the Capitol Event Theatre in Toronto, where awards in eight categories were doled out.
The Vancouver-based indie distributor has acquired the worldwide sales rights to Lieven Debrauwer’s feature documentary Sharkwise.
The word out of Cannes is writer/director Vincenzo Natali’s Neuromancer, adapted from the William Gibson novel, will be a Canadian-European coproduction.