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Vancouver: Yet another film studio complex is being shopped around in Vancouver, but this time the developer says it’s ready to be greenlit as soon as a joint venture partner is secured….

Montreal: In decisions that give the new owners of Television Quatre Saisons and cfcf-tv room to maneuver, and quell the immediate fears of independent producers, the crtc has set the ‘minimum’ level of annual spending on independent Canadian programming by tqs…

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Visual effects supervisor Tom Turnbull sets up his motion-control unit in the elegantly decorated and vast foyer of the Mississauga Civic Center, which on this particular day doubles as a Philadelphia hotel convention room where The Lansmann Company will buy out…

With the wheels of free publicity still spinning from festival press at Montreal and Toronto, Guy Maddin’s latest surreal effort Twilight of the Ice Nymphs will unspool at Toronto’s Carleton Cinema Sept. 26….

In its role as the country’s first 24-hour laugh source, The Comedy Network is aiming to present an irreverent voice that steers clear of sitcom pap and delivers edgier comic fare. In the process, it hopes to provide a platform for…

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Director Atom Egoyan is frontlining an organized campaign to preserve Canadian film, video and audio materials with the formation of the Alliance for Canada’s Audio-Visual Heritage….

A dot bounces around a radio dial reacting to the different music it hears, screaming at things it likes, wilting at the corny stuff, and at one point falling off the dial with boredom in a new animated spot from Montreal’s…