Alliance lowers the checkered flag on a new and original dramatic series set in the behind-the-scenes world of professional stock car racing….

Middle ground is where Epitome Pictures prez Linda Schuyler sits and from this vantage point the recently elected chair of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association intends to herd the scattered film and television interests over to the same side…

Montreal: The National Screen Institute and Telefilm Canada have launched a ‘break the mold’ professional feature film development program for emerging filmmakers based outside of Ontario and Quebec. The program coincides with an upswing in feature production in Western Canada with…

Montreal: Telescene Film Group has entered into a major action-adventure programming agreement with American partners and become the latest Canadian production company to go public with a $27 million ipo closing July 3….

Loaded with laser weapon and full of fiery explosions and hostile enemy ships, Deepwater Black, Empire Entertainment’s new live-action/3D animation sci-fi series with ytv and USA Networks, has kept the in-house cgi department busy around the clock and lacking in ‘cryo’…

The defining moment of the third annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was that there was no defining moment. E3, the annual focal point of the computer and video game software industry, was held June 19 to 21 in Atlanta, Ga. More…

Leaving the likes of failed take-overs behind, Nelvana is pulling out of service production, refocusing on proprietary product and fleshing out animation studio plans….

CBC Newsworld has added six new business shows for its fall schedule and is promising more live broadcasts of news events as they happen, to counter the September launch of CTV’s News 1….

Montreal: The apftq has filed a position with the crtc opposing current consortium takeover plans for Television Quatre Saisons. The consortium, lead by Quebecor Communications with Vancouver-based WIC Western International Communications as the minority partner, will make its case on the…

Adobe Systems has begun production shipments on a Windows nt version of its highly successful and award-winning After Effects 3.1 desktop tool for digital compositing, 2D animation and special effects….

Marseille: For four long days leading up to the solstice, the former residence of the Imperatrice Eugenie was swarmed by hordes of docmakers, sellers and buyers, all anxious to screen and be screened. Sunny Side of the Doc attracted 818 participants…

Every animation company in the country must be shaking their collective cerebrums at the very idea of self-dealing restrictions when they look at the volume of Nelvana and Cinar Films closing windows on the teletoon schedule. Both companies own a piece…