Nick Broomfield’s controversial documentary Kurt and Courtney has been purchased for Canadian distribution by Behaviour….

Low-budget feature film producers beware: if your film uses the current actra Canadian Independent Production Incentive Program, Motion International, one of Canada’s few remaining independent theatrical distributors, will not buy Canadian rights to your film….

A real estate switcheroo appears to be in the offing as sources say that distribution company Odeon Films may be headed for Alliance Communications offices at 121 Bloor Street East, while Robert Lantos’ new prodco Serendipity Point Films will set up…

Industry speculation that Rogers Communications will be raising basic cable rates by a dollar with the launch this week of specialty services CTV Sportsnet and Crossroads Television System on basic, is unfounded says Rogers vp communications Jan Innes….

Using a 1996 u.s. Federal Communications Commission ruling as a model, Canada’s largest animation production companies, Cinar and Nelvana, are asking the crtc to require every licensed television service to provide three hours per week of high-quality, first-run Canadian children’s programming…

Shortly after closing the deal for the purchase of the majority of Vancouver’s Pacific Video, Toronto-based Command Post & Transfer has made the first equipment, staffing and name announcements for its two new Vancouver divisions….

Hull, Que. A week into the Canadian Television Policy Review hearings, ctv seems to have shifted camps….

Along with another five hours of wholesome fun, the CBC is bringing virtual set technology to kids this fall, making the public network the first Canadian broadcaster to take the leap into creating CG environments for its hosts with a system…

With blue screens, miniatures and some 30 effects sequences mixed in with actual footage of Washington, D.C., visual effects artists Michael Lennick and Ray McMillan of Toronto’s The Blackfly Group recently recreated the White House of the Nixon years….

Toronto upstart Annex Entertainment has formed a joint venture with Toronto-based action movie producer Film One Productions to produce and distribute several projects together….

Guidelines for next year’s Canadian Television Fund should be available to the industry by early December at the latest, says Garry Toth, executive director of the Licence Fee Program….

Montreal-based Discreet Logic is positioning the latest incarnation of Fire, version 2.5, as a comprehensive resolution-independent, online nonlinear editing solution to address the present and future needs of post shops….