In Rupert’s Land, the b.c. delegate in the Genie’s best picture category this year, two long-separated brothers reunite for a road trip to attend their father’s funeral….

Based on the novel by Booker-prize-winning author Pat Barker, Regeneration tells the story of four troubled men at Craiglockart, a military hospital in Scotland for shell-shocked soldiers who witnessed the horrors of the battlefield during wwi….

This year’s nominees for the Claude Jutra Award, which recognizes first-time feature film directors, have brought to screen a range of stories including self-discovery, a kidnapping, the end of the world, a heist gone bad, a sexual power struggle, an escape…

What started as a spur-of-the-moment bedtime story for animator John Weldon’s young daughter has been transformed into the Genie-nominated Frank The Wrabbit, a nine-minute National Film Board animated short featuring a philosophizing wrabbit….

In the Genie-nominated animated short Bingo, freakish circus folk in a barren setting repeatedly insist that a quiet guy minding his own business is Bingo the clown….

Best Motion Picture…

It’s not This Hour Has 22 Minutes, but it’s not bad for this year’s Cancon media darlings, DaVinci’s Inquest and Made In Canada….

Sources say CHUM Ltd. is in the final stages of closing its latest foreign franchise deal with a broadcaster in Oslo, Norway….

Montreal: Behind closed doors, the three major broadcaster groups behind 18 new French-language specialty channels agree the market can bear no more than three, a maximum of five, additional services. But when the primary promoters – Groupe tva, Radio-Canada and Premier…

A production deal of massive proportions by Canadian and even u.s. standards between Robert Lantos and Alliance Atlantis Communications will see the former Alliance ceo receive a $25,000 per episode producer fee from two tv shows and could result in a…

Multifaith religious broadcaster Vision tv has jumped into the Canadian feature film fray by prebuying Terrance Odette’s feature directorial debut Heater, skedded to begin two weeks of principal photography in Winnipeg, Dec 2….

Securing representation of Canadian animation scribes will be one of the Writers Guild of Canada’s ‘top priorities’ heading into January renegotiations of its Independent Production Agreement with the cftpa and the apftq, says wgc president Maureen Parker….