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Montreal’s Discreet Logic and MGI Software of Toronto have terminated their agreement to merge. As part of the breakup, Discreet will assume us$450,000 of mgi’s costs in connection with the arrangement agreement entered into on March 9….

Members of the Toronto production community have expressed concern over the use of brokers in the locations process for commercial or long-form shoots, but the Ontario Film Development Corporation is not supporting the efforts being made to limit the activities of…

Banff: The ctcpf annual general meeting at the Banff Television Festival saw the election of Richard Stursberg, president of the Canadian Cable Television Association, as chairperson of the ctcpf board. Stursberg replaces Peter Herrndorf, who acted as interim chairperson over the…

Truly independent spirits in every sense of the word, Backroads Films collaborators writer/director Terry O’Brien and dop Christopher Ball not only wrote, financed and shot Stolen Heart, but they are distributing it as well….

Vancouver: Pressure from u.s. studios is behind the b.c. government’s last-minute decision to match the Ontario tax credit for foreign producers to the penny….

Banff: Multimedia has been a hot topic at the Banff Television Festival, where Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps announced a $30-million multimedia fund to be administered by Telefilm Canada….

Telescene Film Group entered into an engagement with Griffiths McBurney & Partners to underwrite a private placement of primary and secondary warrants at a price of $19 each. The maximum gross proceeds for both categories is just over $37.5 million, with…

Montreal: Institut national de l’image et du son, Quebec’s advanced film and tv school, has launched a publishing program with a Guy Fournier book on screenwriting, Ecrire pour le petit ecran (Writing for the Small Screen)….

Vancouver: The fifth annual Moving Pictures festival concluded last month with a 30% improvement in attendance….

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Having cowritten the script for the Kingsborough Greenlight feature production of To Walk With Lions and penned numerous reality-based biopics or mows, Toronto-based screenwriter Keith Ross Leckie finds himself in the anomalous position of being a busy Canadian scribe….