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Funding
Ontario gives CFC $9 million for training
The Ontario government is to pour another $9 million over three years into the Canadian Film Centre to back its expanding talent training programs.
Financing, rights ownership must change, says Bolen
Changes need to happen across financing for all media, said Norm Bolen – and they need to happen now if they’re going to be successful.
CFC gets $9 million for training
Despite darkened skies, the mood was upbeat at the Canadian Film Centre’s annual TIFF barbeque on Sunday, thanks to a $9 million funding boost announced by the Ontario government.
OMDC invests $2.5 million in feature films
Sixteen domestic feature films will share a $2.5 million boost from the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), as the org invests in production and development financing through its Film Fund.
U.S. back in tax credits business
California doles out $100 million this week
Cineplex buoyed by 3D
Soft sales from blockbusters that weren’t offset by aggressive move into third dimension
CMF looks to Turn On Canada
Contest tests TV knowledge for trips to Gemeaux
Telefilm invests $11.3 million in 22 films
McDonald’s Hard Core Logo 2 to be released by Alliance Films
CBS to finance Canuck script development
L.A.-based Canadian Consulate arranges pitch sessions for Canuck producers to U.S. development execs
Off with his head?
I was alarmed when SODEC head François Macerola said he’d back a Quebec version of Avatar with as much enthusiasm as a film by Cannes prize-winner Xavier Dolan. (Does the world need another Avatar, I thought, or worse, a French-language copy of it? A vision of joual-speaking blue and white Na’vi swinging to the beat of a Céline Dion song sent a shiver down my spine.)
Free rent in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan has introduced a new incentive for TV makers – which waives the rent on the government-owned Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios – for a pilot or the first year of a series. But some say it won’t do enough to reverse the province’s crippling production slump.
Telefilm puts up $7 million
Latest from Falardeau and Déry among projects backed by second round of CFFF
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