Vancouver: Mr. Citytv, Moses Znaimer, blew into town to kick off the 10th annual Film and Television Trade Forum as the opening luncheon speaker and to drum up support from the local production community for his bid for a fourth Vancouver…

Montreal: Revamped and ready for action, Cinepix Film Properties plans to shoot eight to 10 made-for-tv and feature films, including European coproductions, in the next year or so. According to producer Christian Larouche, cfp’s projects will be in the $2.5 million…

Number one for round two of the Canadian Film Centre’s Feature Film Project goes to camera in Toronto Nov. 13 for 20 days. The untitled project, made by The Feeler team of producer Elizabeth Yake and director Colleen Murphy, is a…

Jenfilms, in association with Vision tv, is looking for 30-minute telescripts for the series Inside Stories III….

Xtreme Graphix is planning to raise some hairs with its opening sequence for Goosebumps, premiering Halloween weekend on ytv. The one-minute sequence uses a mysterious, computer-animated ‘g’ traveling across different landscapes and suburban scenes wreaking paranormality as it goes….

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TVOntario excels at it. ytv does nothing but. Vision tv is starting to do it. Showcase dabbles in it. Global has created a resounding commercial success out of it. And cbc is a respected veteran at it. Kids’ programming for television…

The Alliance for Children and Television’s 1995 Festival and Awards of Excellence will be, in the words of director Kealy Wilkinson, ‘a celebration.’ It’s been a record year for award applications – with 65 English and 26 French programs nominated -…

The Pat Ferns market simulation roadshow adds a new stop to the circuit with a junior edition at the Alliance for Children and Television’s 1995 Festival and Awards of Excellence. Since there’s change going down in the market, act hopes ‘the…

The Canadian home video market has been a consistent source of revenue for the past several years and, in good evolutionary fashion, Canadian production companies have adapted their own divisions or mechanisms for getting at it. For many companies, home video…

Everybody wants a piece of something successful. The desire in children of all ages to take a piece of a beloved tv or film character home is rampant to the tune of billions of dollars in yearly retail sales. The monolith…

Kids. Whether you mean to entertain them, educate them or scare the bejesus out of them, you’ve got to reach them first. The marketing and promotion departments of some broadcasters are eagerly tapping into the lucrative tween culture while others are…