Sign of the times: litigious Teddy Bears……

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Montreal: With the worldwide growth in coproduction and coventure, and advantageous pricing structures, banks in Canada are in an excellent position to expand their domestic business as they push to win over new clients offshore….

‘Canadian cinema is a hot property,’ stated Perspective Canada programmer David McIntosh, introducing the 1997 lineup, and Canadian distributors are onside. Of the 20 Perspective Canada features heading into the Toronto International Film Festival, 16 already have a Canadian distributor attached….

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montreal: In its first quarter Telefilm Canada committed $22,227,711 to 38 new Canadian tv, feature film and multimedia productions. The investment covers the period April 1 to June 30….

The Canadian Film Centre’s Resident Programme has expanded its slate of core training initiatives with the launch of The Editors’ Lab and renewed its $1.8 million Feature Film Project initiative which will produce three low-budget features over the next two years….

Vision TV and wtn will launch the 1997/98 season with five new Canadian series each in their fall schedules including one of the first homegrown comedy sitcoms produced for a local specialty….

Almost a year after its showing at the Perspective Canada section of the Toronto International Film Festival, Deepa Mehta’s feature film Fire is coming back to the screen….

Production crews from cbc and Radio-Canada started filming earlier this week in the Strait of Belle Isle and the eastern coast of Labrador on what the corporation is calling ‘the most ambitious documentary series ever undertaken in Canada.’…

Montreal: The just-wrapped action and fantasy film festival Fant Asia ’97 drew a record audience of close to 70,000 this year in only its second edition, a major coup for fest sponsor and Montreal post house Global Vision….

Malcolm Silver specializes in multimedia financing and investor service. He is the president of Toronto-based Malcolm Silver & Company….