‘If I could get the money, I’d love to make it a feature,’ says writer/director Sandy Greer, ‘it’s cinematic materialÉ’…

Canadian properties are definitely hot at the festival. The mgm deal for The Hanging Garden has all heads turning towards newcomer Thom Fitzgerald and he’s fielding numerous calls from American agents looking to sign him. Miramax was also interested in his…

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….

Having accumulated 20 years’ experience in many facets of the film business, Greg Klymkiw says working a festival has become second nature. At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival he will be putting his know-how behind what he calls an art…

With the luxury of buying for a film-going public that watches 45% non-American studio pictures (it likes independents), Jim Frazee, vp of Oslo-based Scandinavian Entertainment Group, is attending his first Toronto International Film Festival, with a mandate to purchase at least…

This column highlights titles that are attracting buyer interest….

Chalk Shadow, a new project currently making the distrib-shopping rounds at tiff, is ‘in good shape,’ according to its producer Sean Ryerson….

U.K. director Mike Newell (Donnie Brasco, Four Weddings and a Funeral) is likely bringing his considerable talent to Toronto next spring to shoot Pushing Tim, a ‘medium’ budget theatrical release from Fox….

Monday night producer Stephen Hegyes was among the crowded lineup of ticket holders at the Uptown, trying to keep tally of the tickets to be saved for buyers and industry pals, dealing with last-minute requests from acquisition people for extra seats,…

A number of major u.s. studio players and equipment manufacturers have announced support for Divx, an emerging digital video disc technology which provides copyright protection for titles released on the new digital format….

*Atlantic fest ramps up…

Like a steel magnate getting into the railroad business, l.a.-based Banner Entertainment is pushing full-steam ahead with a vertical integration strategy by starting up a new distribution company, Banner Pictures Releasing….