Douglas Barrett is a partner and the head of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch….

*Specialty ‘postmortem’ looming…

*Stentor has Olympic site for kids…

Montreal: The Avanti Cine Video miniseries Cher Olivier was the undisputed program of choice at this year’s Prix Gemeaux, winning eight awards including best drama series, best direction and writing for director Andre Melancon as well as the Uniprix Prix du…

*CTV signs on for The Englishman’s Boy…

Vancouver: The Council of B.C. Film Unions has narrowly approved a three-year labor pact with U.S. and Canadian producers. The unions get a 3% rate increase over three years in the renewal of the one-year landmark deal that was supposed to…

*Showcase adds 100 Aussie hours from Ellis…

CineNova Productions’ unique factual dramatization properties have once again caught the eye of Canal+, a financing partner on their five 1996 Great Adventures of the 20th Century titles, with the signing of new deals representing $10 million in production activity….

Quebec cultural agency sodec and Unifrance International are the sponsors of a new Parisian showcase for Quebec feature films and documentaries called Cinema du Quebec a Paris. The event runs Nov. 5-9….

Rob Thompson, an Ottawa-based producer from Winter Films, is having the curious experience of watching his one-hour doc turn into a media event which he describes as bigger than the actual $80,000 documentary itself….

Vancouver: A $500,000-plus lawsuit clouded the October announcement of Red Sky Entertainment, the new Vancouver distribution company run by four Alliance Releasing defectors….

Continuing with its six-month cycle of upgrades, Toronto’s Side Effects software has unveiled Houdini 2.0, its next generation 3D digital animation software package….