Vancouver: On May 8 in Vancouver, the first wave of 33 Leo Awards was handed out in the broadcast news and technical categories. Multiple winners included the information tv series Cosmic Highway, which won three Leos for an episode called ‘Zero…

Vancouver: u.s. specialty channel VH1 is embarking on its first movie project with Sweet Water, an mow to shoot in Vancouver May 25 to June 18….

Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Mask) has joined executive producers Martin Harbury (Bar Harbour Films) and Robert Walker and producer Darlene MacLeod in the final stages of The Romanov Crown….

The Partners’ Film Company and Imported Artists have loosened their ties further by ceasing their equipment dealings. Partners’ equipment and service companies, including Affiliated Equipment, will no longer supply Imported, which henceforth will be supplied by William F. White….

After setting up shop in London, Eng. in the early ’90s, Red Rover president and director Andy Knight was pretty sure he was never coming back to Canada….

Radke Films director/dop Steve Gordon had a day for Sears out of Ammirati Puris Lintas. Norm Odell edited at Flashcut….

Macro impact…

It’s a classic affliction of young adults in the late ’90s: nostalgia for things that happened too few years ago and which are perhaps unworthy of the sentiment. However, the collective harking-back at this year’s Bessies was palpable, rising like prickly…

vancouver: Tony Cianciotta, the founding president of Vancouver’s Red Sky Entertainment, has left the fledgling distribution company after 18 months. Industry sources say Red Sky representatives are assuring the local industry that the company will run as usual….

Canadian distributors are reporting record sales activity at the recently wrapped mip-tv in Cannes….

Substantial oversubscription. That’s how Telefilm executive director Francois Macerola describes the documentary envelope within the Canadian Television Fund’s Equity Investment Program….

Montreal: david Cronenberg’s virtual game-playing thriller eXistenZ grossed $570,000 on 175 screens in its first four days, with distributor Alliance Atlantis Releasing projecting an opening week tally of $800,000. The three-day April 23-25 weekend take in Canada was $525,000….