With the recent revamping of the Canadian Television Fund guidelines and the Feature Film Policy Review Committee recommendations, Playback takes a look at the potential impact on the Quebec production industry. The report features a discussion of these issues with Radio-Canada’s…

With the recent revamping of the Canadian Television Fund guidelines and the Feature Film Policy Review Committee recommendations, Playback takes a look at the potential impact on the Quebec production industry. The report features a discussion of these issues with Radio-Canada’s…

Omerta: le dernier des hommes d’honneur is the third installment of the top-rated SDA Productions crime series and is a sweeping epic saga of one man’s search for honor in a world where old moral codes no longer hold sway….

ACTRA wants Canadian producers to pay its members in u.s. dollars and enjoy working conditions equivalent to Screen Actors Guild members on ‘any production destined for the international marketplace’ which uses a u.s. performer, according to documents obtained by Playback….

According to reliable sources, director David Cronenberg’s new film eXistenZ has been invited to premier in official competition at the Berlin Film Festival….

In an $875-million deal, CanWest Global has made a successful offer to purchase NetStar Communications, creating for itself a large, vertically integrated national production empire….

Despite the apparent chaos at upper-management levels, the cbc’s English television programming strategy of an all-Canadian schedule along with the slow phase-out of its ‘six-packs’ of shows is finally paying off….

The Canadian Film Centre will introduce a series of short films by Canadian filmmakers to the international community at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, marking the first time an English-Canadian film organization has had a presence at the marketplace….

A CRTC decision that could have broad implications regarding specialty channels and their adherence to conditions of licence is expected within the next few weeks….

If ‘going digital’ means a race to 15% penetration of the cabled population, Shaw wins, Rogers trails….

Vancouver: The Canadian production industry will split along regional lines if Sheila Copps pushes Cabinet to scrap the year-old 11% Federal Production Services Tax Credit, b.c. interests warn….

After being added to Cogeco’s tier three in November, and with hopes for similar moves by other cablers, classic movie pay service Moviepix has asked the crtc to delete its licence condition which forces it to run films that are at…