Vancouver: The b.c. film industry posted new record volumes in 1997, capping a decade of solid growth….

#NAME?

Kathy Johns is a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch….

With six specialty licensees on deck, the broadcasters are waxing subtle in interventions filed to the crtc on Shaw Communications’ 48% purchase of Headline Sports….

#NAME?

Montreal: Tele-Quebec announced personnel changes in its programming and production departments, with new emphasis on development and management functions in the production and acquisition sectors, says Mario Clement, who took over as director general of programming at the public network last…

#NAME?

An extra day has been added to the Ottawa Animation Festival, running Sept. 29 to Oct. 4 in the nation’s capital, to include an opening night gala which will feature the world premiere of an animated feature….

Montreal: A record 163 film and video productions are on the program at the 16th Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois, including, for the first time, a significant number of English-language productions screened in their original versions….

It took two years of ‘wooing,’ says Canamedia Productions’ Les Harris, to convince u.k. publisher Dorling Kindersley that his prodco should turn their top-selling kids book The Way Things Work into a tv series….

Vancouver: For those thinking the supper-hour news has had a sudsy tone of late – think Fornigate, for recent evidence – CBC Vancouver’s Broadcast One is taking the next step….

Montreal: Based on the Dominique Demers book of the same name, Un Hiver de Tourmente is a coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Marie, played by Quebec actress Marie-France Monette. Monette is featured in the Roger Cantin family fantasy Matusalem and the current…