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….

*`Stop whining’…

Migrating from our Toronto International Film Festival daily publication is Tracking, a new regular Playback feature….

Tracey Pearce is a member of the Broadcast and Telecommunications Law practice at Goodman Phillips & Vineberg, Toronto….

Martin Bockner, a career Canadian film distributor and a key executive of the original team behind Astral Communications, succumbed to emphysema five days before the Toronto International Film Festival. He was 70….

Taste of Cherry, the first Iranian film to win the Palme d’Or, will make its world theatrical debut Oct. 3 in Toronto after a little target marketing at the Toronto International Film Festival….

With a newly announced Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund and the impending BC Tel fund, almost all of the Stentor Alliance’s $50-million commitment to new media development made over the past year is in place….

With a budget in the $1-million range and adapted in both English and French, The Tale of Teeka/L’histoire de l’oie, a one-hour tv drama from Galafilm’s Arnie Gelbart, Montreal, and Triptych Media’s Anna Stratton, Toronto, wrapped shooting this week. It is…

*Axyz adds Inferno…