These 23 new licensees mean murky days for all, including producers….

These 23 new licensees mean murky days for all, including producers….

These 23 new licensees mean murky days for all, including producers….

These 23 new licensees mean murky days for all, including producers….

Never mind Christmas without a Santa Claus, this was almost the year (on its 20th anniversary in fact) that Ottawa didn’t have its animation festival ­ the world’s second largest and North America’s only competitive animated film showcase….

If Who Framed Roger Rabbit begat the seemingly endless money-making ability of older-skewing mass audience animated features, and if Aladdin begat an opening for The Simpsons in primetime, which begat a new level of sophistication in animated creative throughout the programming…

‘It just crossed my desk, it came to me out of nowhere, I knew nothing about it even being made out here,’ says Canadian Images programmer John Dippong of Drawing Flies, one of ‘the gems’ he found while wading through a…

Despite the critical and commercial success of his feature My Own Private Idaho, director Gus Van Sant has never been able to hustle a dime out of the project….

The dwindling amount of federal money making it west of the Rockies is beginning to spark a renegade culture in indigenous cinema here….

Film and television production volumes are up this year over last, says b.c. film commissioner Pete Mitchell, and 1996 is en route to being the fifth consecutive year of growth for the industry….

It’s a Toronto lab-stravaganza as two new film processing ventures gear up to service the film and television production market….

Drained champagne bottles mark the first week of September as 23 new specialty channel licensees nurse celebration aftermaths and begin the practical processes of getting the services – guaranteed to sink a minimum of $17 million into Canadian programming over the…