Montreal: Exceptional among major American gangland figures, Joseph Bonanno walked away from the crime family he built… and lived to tell his own story….

Following are the nominees in this year’s 17 program, 31 craft and 19 performance award categories as tabulated by the accounting firm of kmpg and provided by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television….

CHUM Television’s yet-to-be-launched adult contemporary music video service MuchMoreMusic has secured carriage agreements with cable systems representing 3.5 million homes….

The New Waterford Girls, a $3.2-million feature film coproduction between Halifax’s Imagex and Toronto’s Sienna Films, will start shooting in Halifax and Cape Breton Island in early October and continue rolling into November….

Classical music label CBC Records has signed a distribution agreement with PolyGram Group Canada….

Toronto toonco Nelvana is in production on another animated series for a u.s. broadcaster. Titled George and Martha, the kids’ series is for the yet-to-be-launched HBO Family….

Vancouver: P.S. Films is making the move from special event television producing to series producing with not one, but two, shows….

The 7th annual Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video has announced highlights of this year’s program, taking place in Toronto Oct. 15-18….

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A new training facility has launched in downtown Toronto to offer students and existing industry practitioners a range of educational options in the digital media area….

On a recent project for Gemini- and Emmy-nominated MGM series Stargate SG-1 (Stargate SG-1 Productions), Vancouver’s Image Engine created not only a number of scene-enhancing elements for the complex shots, but smoothed over some complications resulting from Mother Nature’s inconvenient interference…

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