#NAME?

Please, we (almost) beg: no extraneous crtc hearings on network licence criteria in the midst of what could be the most demanding regulatory year on record….

Playback wishes to clarify that it has no reason to believe that the resignation of Brenda Collins as executive administrator of the bcmpa reported in a Journal item (July 15, p. 4 ‘Collins resigns’) is the result of a deficit of…

Montreal: Ten European film export and promotion organizations are among the high-profile guests slated to attend the 1996 Montreal International Film, TV & Video Market Aug. 22 to Sept. 2….

Perspective Canada programmers for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival have put together what they call the fest’s most startling and controversial Canadian series to date. The slate of 15 features, 27 shorts and one gala includes 10 directorial debuts and…

Vancouver: A fledgling music company with two veteran backers is releasing three soundtrack albums between now and the end of September….

Vancouver: Titanic is the last service production project Vancouver’s Crescent Entertainment will undertake, not because the ship is going down, but because the company is moving into 100% indigenous production….

Vancouver: Tim Bishop, the Toronto-based director of operations at Everest Releasing, knows the value of a great story and engaging characters – not much….

Montreal: Asian superstar Jackie Chan will present his new film Super Cop Aug. 11 at a Canadian prerelease premiere at the first Fant-Asia film festival, a showcase for Asia’s booming fantasy and action feature film industry….

CBC Vancouver is dropping its veteran weatherman Phil Reimer from its dinner-hour and late-night news after 19 years on the job….

Jolly Roger has successfully ended a six-month search for a fourth Canadian director with the formation of a relationship with David Tennant of Vancouver’s Aviator Pictures and an extended affiliation with that West Coast company….

Imported Artists’ director/dop Bob Purman shot four days for McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada through Cossette Communications, Toronto. David Baxter at Panic & Bob edited with the help of assistant Wendy Lanning. The 30 and two 60s feature music composed by Kerry…