Edmonton: While it will certainly be under new leadership by year’s end, the Edmonton-based National Screen Institute, and its annual Local Heroes International Screen Festival, will be remaining in Alberta for the foreseeable future….

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Director Vic Sarin is not eating lunch with the cast and crew today. While they line up in a church hall not far away, preparing to chow down on the mandatory midday feast, Sarin sits at the kitchen table in a…

The Canada Television and Cable Production Fund’s Licence Fee Program has closed out the first abbreviated year of the fund with 314 tv programs receiving support. A total of 209 English-language programs received $53.3 million and 105 French-language programs received $26.7…

Vancouver: In March, Radical Entertainment of Vancouver released two new video game titles, which represent about one-third of its annual title output….

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The Prix aqcc-sodec for best Quebec feature-length film at the 15th Rendez-vous de cinema quebecois has been awarded to Pierre Hebert for La plante humaine, a 78-minute ‘poetic essay’ combining live action and animated elements depicting social crisis at the end…

Toronto’s Shaftesbury Films and Regina’s Heartland Motion Pictures are partnering up on $20 million worth of television movies set for production in Saskatchewan….

European productions dominated the 15th edition of the International Festival of Films of Arts, with the Pratt & Whitney Canada grand prize going to Frantz Fanon: Black, White Mask, a film from u.k. director Isaac Julien….

The Claude Fournier social comedy J’en suis grossed $145,000 during the three-day March 14-16 weekend, tops at the Quebec box office….

Those of us concerned with knowing and preserving Canadian film and television have to scrounge our sources wherever we can find them….

Vancouver: The renewal of the landmark labor agreement between the B.C. Council of Film Unions and Canadian and American producers is underway and could be concluded in Los Angeles the first week of April….