A month after Joel Roodman and New York’s Ark Pictures announced $10 million available in film production financing dollars, more millions are in the offing for the indie community via another transplanted Canadian….

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Vancouver: Of the five applicants vying for a new Vancouver-Victoria television licence, only Craig Broadcasting and CanWest Global filed official reviews of the competition with the crtc Sept. 3….

Close to 200 Atlantic, Canadian and international titles are programmed for the 16th annual Atlantic Film Festival and executive director Robin Johnston hopes to meet, or even beat, the success of last year’s event. Attendance for the 1995 festival was up…

With u.s. and other foreign buyers descending on Toronto for the 21st annual Toronto International Film Festival, the contents of their wish lists are all over the map, ranging from indie art films to thrillers and action/adventure….

– CFP gets mo’ money…

Those afraid of serious commitments (of the Cancon kind) need not apply – for guaranteed analog distribution that is. That was the verdict that outweighed, yet didn’t countermand, the consumer-appeal Q element….

With its long-term debt coming due this month, WIC Western International Communications is facing the banks with greater confidence following the approval of its pitch for extended Ontario distribution….

Montreal: Richard Spence’s Different for Girls, a witty British relationship drama about male friends who become male and female friends, has won the Grand Prix des Ameriques, top prize in competition at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival….

Vancouver: British Columbia’s public broadcaster is working hard to win back viewers it lost to the specialty channels launched in January 1995….

Montreal: An sro crowd of industry professionals listened closely to producer Masato Hara, director general of the All Nippon Producers Association, as he traced the long-term decline of the Japanese theatrical distribution business and pointed to a tough, market-driven national production…

Vancouver companies Heartscape Pictures, Still Water Pictures, Payne & Gilbert Music Publishing and the new Orca Pacific Studios have entered into ‘a legal, financial and creative partnership’ called Palomar Entertainment, according to Palomar principal and Heartscape president Shona Miko….