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Greenberg backs Paperny’s Sun

Three music-minded documentaries, including Paperny Films’ Talking with the Sun: The Ron Sexsmith Story, will get a boost…

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The CMF: The devil is in the details

It’s said that nature abhors a vacuum. Well, so does Canadian media.

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New CMF board to meet in Banff this June

Out with the old and in with the new, media that is.

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Big Apple eyes little tax break

A move by New York State to pour another $350 million into its stalled film/TV incentive program has been called too little and too late by Canadian border players.

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Producers put pressure on Clarkson

Anxious content providers pushed Telefilm Canada’s top execs to act as a voice for their industry as the funder held its first…

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More cash for TV dramas

Drama series will get a leg up this year from the Cogeco Program Development Fund, which, for the first time, will back the production of…

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Familiar face back at Telefilm

Sheila de la Varende has rejoined Telefilm Canada, this time as its director of national and international business development…

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After the earthquake

Really, where do you start…?
It’s impossible not to categorize the decision to place the Canadian Television Fund and the Canada New Media Fund under the purview of cable and satellite operators as anything but an overwhelming win for the ‘casters…

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Moore announces merger of CTF and new media funds

Federal Heritage Minister James Moore, on the Toronto set of Flashpoint to announce the rebranding of the Canadian Television Fund, joked that cast member Enrico Colantoni promised not to lob a grenade in his direction if he said something disagreeable…

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Filmmakers rally behind NFB

In the past, the National Film Board was an extraordinary place, today it’s in the process of disappearing.

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Funder looking for new faces

Telefilm Canada looks to scope out new talent in its Western region with the return of Pitch Week, a meet-and-greet event that…

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Priestley backs equity fund

B.C. producers looking to shoot in the province’s southern interior may find assistance from the new…