The Directors Guild of Canada is heading into the November national network hearings prepared to fight for a baseline 7% of gross revenue from the private broadcasters for Canadian drama and other underrepresented programming genres….

Vancouver: Canada’s newest film mogul says he’ll keep to his core strengths and let the management teams of his acquired film companies continue to do what they do best….

Paragon Entertainment will announce the first project through its recently acquired Lacewood Animation at mipcom….

Less than a month before the next batch of specialty channels and the particulars in play are mesmerizing….

Sales coming out of the Toronto International Film Festival are just beginning to register, but early deal-making and distribution leads say Canadian films are off to a good start….

As they move into series production (nonfiction), Associated Producers partner Elliott Halpern says next year the company could be looking to double its production volume (it’s currently producing six to 10 hours a year)….

The volume of production coming out of the Canadian market will be reflected at this year’s mipcom, Sept. 26-30….

*Atlantic fest ramps up…

Vancouver: Elizabeth Friesen will drive a Western business plan that is designed to decentralize Telefilm Canada operations and allocate funds for Western film producers. The three-year plan – which began last year and will be augmented by a similar national plan…

Regarding the Sept. 8 Perspective piece, we would like to add that Peter Mohan and Atlantis’ Seaton McLean were instrumental players in the pitch to Global that resulted in the series Traders….

Digital(e)ia…

Word out of L.A. has Canadian ex-pat writer/producer Paul Haggis (now with Rysher Entertainment) filing a breach of contract lawsuit against Alliance Communications after he was excluded from participating in this season’s Due South….