Selected 1996 domestic and location Montreal production highlights include:…

Canadians are among the most experienced coproducers in the world, with Montreal-based companies at the heart of the action year in, year out. It’s big business, with well over $1 billion worth of film and tv projects coproduced with Canadian partners…

For its first 20 years the Montreal World Film Festival (Aug. 22 to Sept. 2) has been dedicated to telling the full story of international cinemas, sold and unsold, and with 318 films from 60 countries on the program, the 1996…

Director Alan Rudolph (The Moderns, Mrs. Parker & The Vicious Circle) is in Montreal prepping on After Glow, a 34-day feature film shoot produced by Robert Altman….

Canada’s west has long been an attraction and a challenge for filmmakers since 1919 when Alberta’s Lesser Slave Lake provided the beautifully cruel backdrop for Nell Shipman’s Back to God’s Country, and the bitter climate proved too much for even a…

Once again Prairie producers are, in the words of one member of their ranks, ‘busy as beavers’ this summer, and not only with a complement of major projects. Each with its own mandate, the Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba industries are also…

Vancouver: Cards are on the table for a new Vancouver broadcasting service, with Baton Broadcasting offering up a most generous application sweetener of $20 million per year on at least two primetime Canadian drama series, if it finds itself the chosen…

Already feeling program supply pools dwindling, Canada’s latest batch of specialty services are heading into their second broadcast year confident independent production won’t feel the impact of a pending change in licence conditions which could mean less money in the crtc-regulated…

‘Some of the stuff is very gently peculiar, so the overall feeling of this movie is a bit like being on lithium or something. You feel like giggling every now and then.’…

Toronto’s Spot Film and Video lab has officially closed its doors after being in receivership since 1994. Receiver Marvin Zweig is currently selling the facility’s equipment, and says there are interested parties….

With the calendar lurching towards the September deadline for a Canada-generated program classification system, all is reportedly not tranquil on the v-chip front….

Transplanted Canuck producer Joel Roodman, together with production partners in New York, has announced the creation of a $10 million funding pool available to independent feature filmmakers….