*Red Violin, Last Night close to U.S. deals…

The 13th annual Trade Forum at the Vancouver International Film Festival is being touted as the most diverse program of its kind ever delivered in Western Canada, a reflection of growing indigenous production and industry demand….

The world premiere of Vancouver director Michael Rohl’s first feature, Zacharia Farted, and Justin MacGregor’s The Vigil are among the 93 Canadian films chosen to screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival, opening Sept. 25 and running until Oct. 10….

Alliance Communications has created an acquisitions department and promoted Charlotte Mickie to senior vp acquisitions and development, Alliance Motion Picture Group….

Buyers and Sellers talks to national and international distributors about their acquisition and sales plans at the Toronto International Film Festival….

Outgoing Alliance Communications chairman and ceo Robert Lantos’ new production company is to be called Serendipity Point….

Pitch is tracking new projects for various directing, producing and acting talent attending this year’s Toronto International Film Festival….

Montreal: For a moment two or three weeks back, of the 620 theater screens in Quebec, product from Alliance Vivafilm filled slightly more than 300. With its roster of films from Studio Canal +, Miramax, Artisan, October and New Line added…

The provocative film division of Channel 4 officially grew up this summer. On June 1, its three movie operations – u.k. distribution, Film Four International and Film Four Production – were folded into a new umbrella arm called simply Film Four,…

Selected Canadian or Canadian coproduced fall ’98 feature releases from either Alliance Releasing or Odeon Films include Gilles MacKinnon’s dramatic wwii story Regeneration, a Canada/Scotland coproduction (from the Norstar Releasing library purchased by Alliance) starring Jonathan Price, Johnny Lee Miller and…

‘We take on projects most people wouldn’t want to touch with a 10-foot pole,’ says Vancouver director Nettie Wild of her latest documentary A Place Called Chiapas, which took three and a half years to complete….

In recent years, a steady flow of smaller budget, made-for-television documentaries has led to some criticism that Canada’s national film board, faced with tightened purse strings, had been losing sight of its original cinematic goals, opting instead for more commercial broadcast…