Alliance Films’ loss of the New Line Cinema output deal has thrown the Canadian indie movie distribution sector into a frenzy.

Outgoing sitcom takes another win at Canadian Screenwriting Awards, best one-hour goes to short-run CHUM series by Wertheimer and McGrath

Like most 15-year-olds, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is growing again. With two added venues this year, eight theaters will unspool 173 documentaries from 36 countries from April 17-27.

Sturla Gunnarsson is frustrated.

At a mere nine years old, the Toronto Documentary Forum has an impressive track record and a hot lineup of participants once again.

Hot Docs’ new online sales venture, dubbed The Doc Shop, launches with the festival, but will be available 24/7.

Nine industry professionals and journalists comprise the 2008 Hot Docs festival jury that will preside over the awards selection for the films in official competition, deciding the winners in four categories: best Canadian feature documentary (selected from the Canadian Spectrum program), best international feature documentary (selected from the International Spectrum program), best short documentary, and best mid-length documentary (selected from all programs).

The mega-chain is under fire for pulling domestic films from its screens in Montreal and Quebec, but an exhibitor group claims distributors have broken an unspoken rule

What started out as a ‘pretty underwater movie’ moves on to France, Germany and Spain as Warner and Alliance prep DVD release

Story of no-hope ski jumper set at the Calgary Winter Olympics to be handled by Seville and Contender

Tonya Lee Williams is fired up over Barrack Obama’s decision to confront the issue of racism in America head-on, and feels the same should be done regarding the Canadian film industry.