‘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…

What better way to celebrate spring than with a fresh batch of film premieres in Canada. The 4th Annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival running May 2-9 promises 60% premieres at this the second largest Jewish film festival in North America….

Considering Canada’s dwindling funding pool, it’s potentially good news for producers in search of backers that the rise of Turner, Showtime and the like are creating an appetite for content on u.s. cable. There isn’t ever going to be a way…

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Playback asked Canadian film and television production companies what they had spent on independent production in 1995. Their responses revealed that total Canadian independent production expenses for ’95 topped the $951.5 million mark with about $892 million being spent on production…

Only those companies that completed their Playback questionnaires and submitted the financial information requested are included in this list….

Playback asked Canadian film and television production companies what they had spent on independent production in 1995. Their responses revealed that total Canadian independent production expenses for ’95 topped the $951.5 million mark with about $892 million being spent on production…

Pressures on Canada’s top cultural bureaucrat are coming from all angles of the cultural industries and the woman in charge, the newly appointed Minister of Heritage Sheila Copps, has been bombarded since her appointment in late January….

Trading in their requisite jeans and easy shirts for tuxedos and bow ties, the cinematography community turned it out for the 39th annual Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards, an evening of well-deserved attention for the largely incognito heroes of the production…

Montreal: Cinepix Film Properties will take a major step up in feature film production this year, perhaps its last as a privately held company….

Heralded as a major turning point for the Canadian cable television service industry, the creation of vision.com, the new industry initiative unleashed Tuesday, is raising industry hopes that the co-operative efforts of the major cablecos will speed up the roll-out of…

Head of tv sales for Radio-Canada, Robert Trempe, has joined Tele-Metropole as its new vp sales and marketing….