Quebec Premier Jean Charest has lost faith in the agency’s top executive following a report that revealed the cultural mandarin’s tendency to spend like…

There’s more money in the coffers at the Canadian Television Fund, which has renewed two of its programs with significant increases to…

Telefilm Canada has named Agnes Zak its new regional director of business development…

‘I want us to have a great industry,’ says Stephanie Azam, the recently appointed head of Telefilm Canada’s English-language feature film productions. Not naïve but certainly enthusiastic, Azam fixes her eyes intently on the goal ahead: 5% of the box office for Canadian film.

TVOntario and the National Film Board have joined forces to relaunch the Calling Card Program, offering twin prizes of $45,000 to documentary filmmakers. Originally known as the Al Waxman Calling Card Program, the relaunch sees the NFB step in for the Ontario Media Development Corporation. The new collaboration between the board and TVO is expanding the program to include new media, in addition to the original television category.

There was talk of a protest campaign this week at the Quebec producers association to fight aspects of the new Canada Media Fund…

Documentary filmmakers are calling for a review of the $300-million Canada Media Fund, the new-look amalgamation of…

On March 23, Telefilm Canada announced it would implement a set of ‘Best Practices’ for the English-language selective component of the 2009/10 Canada Feature Film Fund investment cycle.

You’d expect someone whose career has revolved around numbers and the administration of stodgy bodies to be, well… rigid. (Hell, her first job was in the bowels of Ottawa’s bureaucracy.) But Andra Sheffer exudes enthusiasm and has a remarkably lithe approach, most recently demonstrated in her role as prime mover in funneling much-needed millions to drama producers.

TVOntario and the NFB have joined forces to relaunch the Calling Card Program, offering twin prizes of…