Montreal: La Financiere des entreprises culturelles du Quebec (Quebec Entertainment Investment) has authorized its first three gap-financing agreements. Two of the productions are feature films and the third is television. Pierre Leblanc, the agency’s general manager, says more details will be…

Montreal: Astral Communications reports first-half revenues are up 44% to $206.4 million. The company says the sharp hike is mainly attributable to higher home video sales and broadcast revenues, the latter based on a big increase in dth subscribers, and fully…

Montreal: The Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters has re-elected Victor Loewy of Alliance Atlantis Releasing and Stephen Greenberg of Motion International as association co-chairs….

The Canadian Film and Television Production Association has added some new members to its board of directors. Linda Schuyler continues as chair; the rest of the executive and committee chairs will be announced in June….

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The Shaw Children’s Programming Initiative and the Shaw Television Broadcast Fund have together committed more than $6.5 million to Canadian programming for children and families….

Missoula, Montana: The international market for natural history films has undergone dramatic growth in recent years and is now reaching maturity. While many countries are doing business with Canadian wildlife filmmakers, there are still many things Canadians may not know about…

The eighth annual newMedia Conference and Trade Show will take place in Toronto June 1-4 and is set to offer its largest array of seminars yet, divided into four themed tracks….

The eighth annual newMedia Conference and Trade Show will take place in Toronto June 1-4 and is set to offer its largest array of seminars yet, divided into four themed tracks….

* New name, new money for DR…

Montreal: Director Attila Bertalan starts filming on his new feature Between the Moon and Montevideo on location in Old Havana June 7. Highly resourceful, Bertalan wrote the screenplay and is also producing alongside Pascal Maeder. The producers have amassed just over…

When Violet turns 55, she’s convinced she’s going to die. That’s the premise of Violet: A Comedy about Death, now in development by producer Mary Sexton (Dooley Gardens) of Dark Flowers Productions, St. John’s, Nfld….