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With mere days until the ctf filing deadline, funding applications are rumored to number 800. Last year, there were approximately 450 applications. eip only and eip/lfp tv applications are due Feb. 15. lfp only tv apps are due March 15….

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Behaviour reports $19M loss

Montreal: Two senior executives with Behaviour Communications have left the company as it unveiled a major financial loss for the second consecutive year….

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Cinar, CCTV sign major coprod deal

Montreal: In a wave of news, including a 69% hike in profits for fiscal ’98, Cinar Corporation and China Central Television have announced an agreement to coproduce 52 half-hours of the animated series Journey to the West, Legends of the Monkey…

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Violin tops Genies

The Red Violin scooped up eight trophies at the 19th annual Genie Awards, including all the top honors – best motion picture for Rhombus Media producer Niv Fichman, best direction for Francois Girard, best screenplay for Don McKellar and Girard, as…

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NATPE wraps

Lest any tell themselves television is high art, try natpe….

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On set with Brats of the Lost Nebula

Five orphaned children from war-torn planets band together for survival in a universe under attack in Brats of the Lost Nebula, a sci-fi adventure series combining cg animation with puppetry….

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Stangl: Strong showing for Maya/AfterEffects

With this first (and destined not to be the last) tech highlights overview, VirtualInnovations asked some technically savvy types from various areas of the industry to make their calls on the significant production technology moments from last year and to forecast…

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B.C. Film unveils new guidelines

Vancouver: The brief era of free money for b.c. production companies is over as British Columbia Film says good-bye to its Market Incentive Program and switches back to loans from grants….

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FCB calls for cable access `inquiry’

The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has asked the crtc to launch an ‘inquiry’ into cable companies’ introduction of new specialty channels….

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Mapping out the possibilities

When we started work on Associated Producers’ latest documentary Quest for the Lost Tribes we did not know the full scope of the journey we were about to embark on….

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Ware Out There

*Digidesign ships MIX…

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Editorial

NATPE in retrospect…