It is the last of three large film festivals in Canada, yet the Vancouver International Film Festival still manages to showcase a substantial number of premieres….

Celebrating the successes of film and television producers who maintain their creative sovereignty, this year’s 12th annual Film and Television Trade Forum honors those who can proudly say ‘I Did It My Way.’…

The Vancouver International Film Festival and Trade Forum, like their counterparts around the globe, attract a proverbial galaxy of stars and deal makers. Here’s a roundup of some of the people with whom you might like to do lunch:…

Comart Films has come to tiff this year because of the international word of mouth that Toronto is a must-attend event for any art house specialist. The company made the trip from Capetown, South Africa….

From its origins in 1990 as a small New York production company created as a haven for struggling filmmakers, The Shooting Gallery has gone on to produce internationally acclaimed indie films that generate high box office. It’s also gone on to…

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New York-based producers chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, the husband-and-wife team who went behind the scenes of Clinton’s victorious 1996 presidential campaign in Academy Award-nominated The War Room, are at the festival with Moon Over Broadway, a documentary about the trials…

Pierre Brousseau, senior vp of Malofilm/Behaviour’s Quebec distribution operations, was incorrectly identified in yesterday’s edition of Playback Daily….

Udy Epstein, principal of Los Angeles-based Seventh Art Releasing, has been screening films non-stop while visiting this year’s Toronto festival. Epstein hopes to pick up a title or two for u.s. distribution, and perhaps worldwide rights for the four-year-old company he…

Twenty years ago producer/ director Ira Wohl won the collective nod of every festival jury, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that screened Best Boy, a doc about his mentally retarded cousin. Last week he finished the sequel,…

U.S. director Lynn Hershman Leeson’s latest film is notable tech-wise not only for its digerati cameos (Timothy Leary’s last film turn, and Well-master John Perry Barlow as an encryption expert), but for its use – which producer Henry S. Rosenthal believes…

A cheque for $100,000 from Miramax Films is wending its way to the folks in Flint, Michigan….