Jennifer Baichwal, director and producer of Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles, was an avid reader of Paul Bowles as a teenager. An ex-pat American composer and writer, Bowles has lived in Morocco for over 50 years. He…

Montreal: Behaviour Communications has signed a commitment letter for a revolving credit facility with the Chase Manhattan Bank. The facility will provide Behaviour with a minimum of $30 million to be used to refinance debt, including bank loans and a scheduled…

The Specialty and Premium Television Association says its members are willing to take risks and launch new digital specialty services to a limited subscriber base, and will work to entice customers to satellite services, digital cable and wireless cable….

‘Ever since Pope John Paul ii, there’s been a turning point with the Catholic Church, an opening to new ideas, to relationships with other faiths,’ says Peter Flemington, vp of programming and development at Vision tv….

L’irian Jaya, a Radio-Canada production, is part of a new primetime weekly doc strand, Zone Libre. Most of the productions are produced in-house (75%) and the rest come from independents. (To the delight of producer Louise Lemelin and host Jean-Francois Lepine,…

Now in his fourth decade as a filmmaker, and one of the renowned animators of the National Film Board, director Pierre Hebert has often experimented with techniques to help draw audiences into his films….

Shot Through the Heart is the dramatic story of two best friends, Vlado Sarinsky and Slavko Simic, who were teammates on a professional Yugoslavian shooting team. During the war in Sarajevo, Vlado, a Croat married to a Muslim, finds out the…

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television along with members of Toronto City Council honored filmmakers of the future by giving them hands-on opportunities to hone their crafts….

* TVA tops spring BBM…

* Shaw offering…

Douglas Barrett is a partner and the head of the KNOWlaw group of the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch….

If you didn’t have to do them, you likely wouldn’t, but coproductions have become a fact of life for an ever-expanding array of independent film and television producers across the map. Finding the right partner remains one of the most vital…