In a rare display of cultural policy solidarity, Canadian Heritage has stood behind a crtc decision that u.s. majors view as protectionist and unfair. The March 19 statement made by Heritage Minister Sheila Copps declared government support for a Dec. 20…

Despite firm commitments from Canada’s three principal federal film and tv agencies to maintain current levels of production financing, the latest round of cuts announced in the March 7 federal budget will inevitably be a blow to production and distribution financing….

The Alberta Motion Picture Development Corporation will cease operations on March 29, and while industry members continue to lobby for replacement funding, a number of projects will be relocated or shelved….

As the World Wide Web continues expanding pell-mell, dramatic entertainment forms are being co-opted from tv and film and showing up on the Web in various incarnations. Developers and media companies as well as advertisers are taking a hard look at…

Edmonton: This year’s Local Heroes International Screen Festival in Edmonton, its 10th anniversary, was indeed a dynamic meeting of filmmakers and film professionals from all around the country and the world….

Vancouver: A government restructuring in British Columbia that shuffles responsibility for the B.C. Film Commission to a new provincial ministry, has some local producers scratching their heads….

Would cable companies and telcos doing their race-walk towards digital transmission of programming and information software please clear the path: a sprinter is planning to pass you by….

After five years of rancor and disruption, Vancouver performers have voted in favor of recommendations that could end a jurisdictional dispute between actra and the Union of B.C. Performers….

The abrupt ampdc closure, with its resultant exodus of production and predicted erosion of infrastructure, starkly illustrates that whoever minds the pocketbook and calls the policy holds the reins of the film and tv industry in Canada….

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Shania has the flu….

Kessler Irish Films’ David Wellington just finished another long day’s journey into a beer commercial on the shoot for Vickers and Benson’s three new Molson Dry tv spots….