While policy and funding issues are hashed out at the bureaucratic level by the mix of broadcaster, producer, and government interests, the changing shades of the Canadian production landscape also have a direct impact on the talent that provide a crucial…

While policy and funding issues are hashed out at the bureaucratic level by the mix of broadcaster, producer, and government interests, the changing shades of the Canadian production landscape also have a direct impact on the talent that provide a crucial…

Banff: Bigger, slicker, and all business. While there’s still a lot of hobnobbing at the 18th Banff Television Festival (June 9-13), the prevalence of cel phones, the stuffed message boxes, and the lengthy queues at business services lead one to believe…

If it’s June it must be September and with it comes fine, even inspired scheduling for the 1997/98 Canadian tv drama series….

Eighty-five carpenters, 18 electricians and 30 painters worked around the clock for three months to create 47 standing sets and transform an empty lot into a community for Toronto-based Epitome Pictures’ new soap Riverdale, premiering this fall on cbc. The facility…

With a rates agreement firmly in place for the seven analog services, the digital-tier licensees are at the plate vying for a coveted spot on September’s third tier of specialty channels….

Following a special meeting in Banff June 11, Telefilm Canada’s executive director Francois Macerola will meet with Western producers and film organizations in the first week of July to discuss solutions to the federal funding agency’s domestic shortfall in the Equity…

In a deal struck to offer both companies an edge in animated tv production, Atlantis Communications has acquired a 50% stake in Calibre Digital Pictures, the Toronto service company currently producing special effects for Atlantis series’ The Adventures of Sinbad and…

Not content with a Grand Prize picked up in l.a. at the World Animation Celebration and another in tow from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in London, The Old Lady and the Pigeons has taken a third Grand…

The 46th International Filmfestival Mannheim Heidelberg has expanded this year to include films from Canada and the u.s. and will be running a new cofinancing conference, Projekt Markt….

A new three-year (1997 to 2000) mission statement by educational network Tele-Quebec calls for the service to adapt a heightened specialty channel vocation with programming focused on education, culture, the regions of Quebec and minority communities….

The third annual Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival wrapped June 8 boasting double the number of participants at its workshop series over last year, but the marketplace fell short of expectations; only 15 of the 33 registered industry executives showed up…