* Salter Street Films has appointed Thomas Howe as director of acquisitions. Howe will be joining the company on a one-year consulting basis. Before joining Salter Street May 1, Howe will complete his tenure as cbc’s senior director, international coproductions, sales…

Of the 81 nominees vying for the 1999 Banff Rockie Awards, organized by the Banff Television Festival, 10 programs hail from Canadian producers….

Montreal: Forty international filmmakers, industry guests and journalists are attending this year’s 15th annual Journees Africaines et Creoles film festival, April 23 to May 2 in Montreal….

Riding on the success of Such A Long Journey, which has taken in Canadian box office receipts of over $380,000 since opening Feb. 26, The Film Works plans to focus its efforts on bigger-budget feature film production….

Independent filmmmakers in the Maritimes may just get the break they’ve been looking for, now that Telefilm Canada’s Atlantic office has created the Emerging Filmmakers Program. The new program for filmmakers in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince…

A proposed new permit fee for location shooting in the City of Toronto has led a number of industry advocacy groups to warn that an additional charge could dull Toronto’s attraction as a centre for domestic and foreign production….

Ottawa animation company Boomstone Entertainment and Toronto’s Bright Anvil Studios have entered into a joint venture which will see the companies team up on service contracts and codevelop proprietary animated product….

Steve Kerzner regards the green-haired, grey sock puppet with great affection as he tries to light its cigar. After a couple of tries, the brown stub finally takes and soon smoke from the stogie and the smoke machine fill the new…

Vancouver: Steady on, says the director of communications at CanWest Global, in response to recent media reports….

The Writers Guild of Canada and the cftpa’s industrial relations committee are embroiled in a dispute as to whether minimum guarantees and distribution advances fall under the Independent Production Agreement’s definition of producers receipts….

Montreal: Ten French-language feature film producers have received ‘offer’ letters from Telefilm Canada’s operations office in Montreal….

Montreal: Videotron has launched its digital television service, primarily in competition with Look tv’s ‘wireless cable’ launched in January. Videotron is offering three digital packages, two featuring consumer discretionary options….