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– Telefilm invests $33.7M…

Fact: Canadian drama is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was in the ’70s and ’80s. Fact: There remains room for improvement….

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television was born in 1979 as a tool to promote Canadian feature film via an awards program. The fledgling tv industry decided it too required a similar marketing and promotional vehicle and asked the Academy…

When I saw that my category Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Continuing Dramatic Series was listed at the end of the Gemini Awards, I panicked. If the Oscars were any indication, its placement suggested an importance to the…

Montreal: Blackwatch Communications has secured a $20-million private financing and announced distribution veteran Yves Dion has joined the company as partner and president of Blackwatch Releasing, its international and domestic distribution arm….

Montreal: Remstar Corp. has signed an exclusive two-year output deal for Canada with Interlight Entertainment of Los Angeles and announced plans to move into production and production financing….

Broadcasting veteran Audrey Cole will executive produce the Canadian Film Centre’s inaugural Television Resident Programme, launching January 1999….

Vancouver: Sept. 21’s special shareholder meeting will ask investors of Vancouver’s International Keystone Entertainment – producer of family features Air Bud i and ii – to approve a share consolidation, an acquisition and a nominee to the board….

In the mid-’80s, the ACTRA Awards, an in-house, untelevised awards ceremony, was the only event honoring Canadian television. Robert Lantos, then president of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, felt the awards didn’t do justice to the industry. In 1986,…

this the first in a series of articles casing the international children’s programming market….

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