Vancouver: A meeting mid-January between Heritage Minister Sheila Copps and West Coast film insiders was less than satisfying, say local film executives….

In February and March, six teams from the Canadian Film Centre will be descending on Toronto neighborhoods producing a veritable bounty of new shorts. First up is Uncle from writer/director Chris Grismer and Cape Bretoner Michael Melski, a playwright-turned-screenwriter and former…

‘Festival’s 90 minute presentation of The Blues on Wednesday night was in a class by itself ­ a pure television show, entirely genuine, and as such a classic of its kind. Here we had honest people talking sincerely and singing from…

Paddy Sampson, The Blues’ producer/ director, has not seen the new footage, and in fact, although he would have cooperated, says he was not consulted on the new production at all. ‘When I heard about the project I phoned several people…

At Spy Films, director Pete Henderson is shooting three days with dop Sean Valentini for a new Molson Canadian campaign through M2. The spots will be edited by Gillian McCarthy at Third Floor and produced by Shannon Barnes. Subsequently, Henderson will…

How do you sell Canada to American tourists in February?…

Consistently producing top-quality results and determinedly undertaking to work on better and better projects ­ it’s so crazy, it just might work. Check back with Philip Mellows in a few months after the results of changes at The Players Film Company…

This year may well go down as the high-tide mark in serial animation production in Montreal, with as many as eight or nine companies producing for television, theatrical distribution, cd-rom home release and the Internet….

Cactus Animation is well advanced in the production of Bob Morane and Fennec, two of the first three series to emerge from the $100 million animation coproduction agreement signed in ’96 with Ellipse Animation, France’s largest animation house….

Following a 15-year tenure as executive director of Canadian Sesame Street and seven more years, from 1990 to 1996, as head of youth and children’s programming at Radio-Canada, Michel Lavoie is retiring as of March 31….

Soon to take his leave from Radio-Canada where he served as the topper of children’s programs, Michel Lavoie has been called many things: inspired, highly critical, caring, naive and a great defender of children and their interests….

Marguerite Volant, a historical drama series from Montreal producer Cite-Amerique and director Charles Biname, has won a Silver FIFA Award in the series and teleroman category at the 10th annual Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels….