The Canadian Film and Television Production Association called upon its members to get the word out to the public and the government on the important role the independent production industry plays in the Canadian economy and vowed to take a large…

Vancouver: The cd-rom projects of two West Coast film producers are stuck in limbo while their common business partner finds its feet following a dramatic corporate takeover….

Under current threat of privatization, tvontario appears to be working hard to keep the government wolf from the door. Two recent deals indicate the network is adopting strategies to take control of its financial future, keep revenues up and expenses down….

It’s a rare, crazy night that spans heady tributes, show tunes, and a grinning Robert Lantos likened to ‘the Easter Bunny with a mustache,’ but the Toronto chapter of Women in Film and Television pulled it off in its sparkling annual…

Ten weeks into its first season and complete with all the writing, pacing, acting and production values of a potential slot winner, Traders’ April 4 episode drew its worst ratings to date in Ontario, a casualty of new episodes of er….

With less than a handful of Canadian commercial talents specializing in directing fashion and beauty spots, L.T.B. Productions is parachuting new director Anthony Corindia into the category with the hope of keeping more of the fashion pool out of the hands…

‘Imagine you could protect everything you purchase…

Executive producer Dan Tohill, writer/director Val Terziz and casting director Deborah Harry had a movie entitled edgar to produce, but they were short one thing: a production house….

SPY Films’ Gord McWatters has three spots lined up for Good Humor through MacLaren McCann. The two- or three-day shoot is set to happen in early May with a yet-to-be-determined dop. Pete Henderson picked up three studio days for a Dentyne…

Costume and fashion designers take note. After nearly two years of delays, word is Toronto will be the locale for a new daily soap opera called Empire, much in the style of Family Passions….

Vancouver: When renowned French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Lover, The Bear) was unceremoniously ‘kicked out’ of India this month – even though he was well into preproduction on his film adaptation of the novel Seven Years In Tibet – Vancouver became…

‘Once you enter television from a broadcaster’s point of view, you end up seeing television as a huge ogre that eats up programs. It’s not a very discriminating ogre. It just gobbles up what it’s fed. Sometimes things that aren’t of…