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News Brief: Images ’97

The 10th annual Images ’97, an international festival of indie film and video held in Toronto runs April 10-19….

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Hot Docs! finding its niche

After five days of wheeling and dealing at a financiers club and pitch session as well as schmoozing at an array of parties and screenings, Hot Docs!, Toronto’s fourth annual international documentary festival, wrapped March 23 with both Canadian and foreign…

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Fed tax credit has red tape backlog

Vancouver: About a dozen of the 864 applications for the new federal refundable tax credit have resulted in rebates for Canadian film and television producers even though the program went into effect 16 months ago….

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News Brief: SRDP music promo and marketing focus

The Ministry of Heritage-supported Sound Recording Development Program has been redesigned so as to leave the bulk of this year’s $9.5 million budget directed towards assisting marketing and promotions for Canadian music artists….

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Quebec Scene: Richer, Picard star in Verseau saga L’Ombre de l’epervier

Montreal: Principal photography opened on a blustery, snowy night in late March on Verseau International’s L’ombre de l’epervier, a 13-hour historical drama chronicling a family and fishing village’s struggle against mercantile exploitation….

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B.C. Scene: Follow-up to Live Bait means Dirty storyline for Sweeney

Vancouver: West Coast director Bruce Sweeney – creator of the Toronto International Film Festival award-winning Live Bait in 1995 – is gearing up for mid-April production of his sophomore, small-budget feature called Dirty, a slice-of-life story about an acerbic 50-year-old woman…

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Ontario Scene: Film One and Fireworks announce first coproduction

Those who work with David Hasselhoff every day might need a little diversion, and even the beach can get dreary after awhile….

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Network: Short takes on people, things and what’s shaking out there in the prod tech universe

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The First Cut Award heads into its second year….

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Commercial Directions: Yeates, Pienaar Co-operate

Circle Productions’ Stephen Yeates directed eight days with cameraman Andre Pienaar in Toronto, Newfoundland and Vancouver for Co-operators Insurance through Wunderman Cato Johnson. David Brennan produced, Tim Turner executive produced and Panic & Bob’s David Baxter edited. David Fleury did music….