sfa Productions picked up two golds and a silver at the Worldfest International Film Festival in Arizona….

Montreal: At its annual general meeting in Montreal last week, Coscient Group president and ceo Guy Crevier told shareholders the company is replacing its subsidiary structure with new business units. Crevier says additional details on the rebranding exercise will be made…

Capitalizing on controversy surrounding the film’s release in India, Behaviour Communications will rerelease Deepa Mehta’s Fire, beginning this Friday, in three Canadian cities, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary….

Vancouver: Last week, CanWest Global and Shaw Communications were back at the table renegotiating the sale of WIC Western International Communications….

Calgary’s Nomadic Pictures has licensed u.s. tv broadcast rights of its Christmas mow Ebenezer, for an undisclosed amount, to Turner Entertainment Group of Atlanta. The tv movie will air exclusively on tnt for five years, with it first broadcast aired Wednesday,…

Vancouver: Pacific Motion Pictures, a division of Rainmaker Entertainment Group since July, is finally exploiting its exclusive Canadian distribution and licensing agreement with Hallmark Entertainment, a major American producer of television product….

Montreal: Cine-Groupe has launched a new technologies content production unit called Cine-Groupe Media….

Montreal: Montreal-based Remstar Distribution has acquired exclusive Canadian rights to Camouflage, directed by James Keach and starring William Forsythe, Lochlyn Munro, Vanessa Angel and Leslie Nielsen in the role of a nearly retired detective out for one last score. The film…

A group of private investors and Banque National have invested close to $1 million in Montreal post/digital-effects house Groupe Image Buzz. Buzz president Gilles C. Massicotte says the financing will be used for technological upgrades. The investment marks a clear turnaround…

Vancouver: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, a division of Walt Disney, has augmented its scheduled video release of Summer of Monkeys this month with a limited theatrical release in the u.s. The family feature – produced by Saskatoon’s Edge Entertainment and shot…

*DKP gets Kyran, major U.S. assignment…

The transition from play script to screenplay was a smooth one for Shaftesbury Films’ $3-million tv movie External Affairs, adapted from Timothy Findley’s play The Stillborn Lover by screenwriter Jeremy Hole….