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Immaculate white trailers lining city streets, denim-clad pas in artfully torn t-shirts and baseball caps brandishing walkie-talkies, barricades blocking parking stalls, and cops wolfing down donuts. Yes, the telltale signs of a film in progress still abound in Vancouver….

One man’s poison can be another man’s tonic. And so it goes in the business of producing film and television in Canada, where one province’s shortcomings have proven to be another territory’s advantage….

A lonely voice in the rain forest, British Columbia producer Harold Tichenor says the future of film financing here remains promising, despite the current flux of government tax credit and incentive programs….

Montreal: Telefilm Canada has reorganized its production and development branch into a streamlined operations branch with integrated core business units managing features and television projects in each of its principal Canadian offices….

Miranda Richardson sits at the bar of the dimly lit, tediously named Postcards lounge in Toronto’s Sheraton Centre hotel, and slowly, deliberately, drops a sugar cube into her coffee. She wears a faraway look that suggests she wouldn’t notice if the…

Montreal: Industry veterans Murray Shostak and Danny Rossner have formed Shostak/ Rossner Productions, a content and non-content producer of feature films, tv series and mows. The company conservatively estimates its 1995/96 production slate will be in the $20 million range….

Almost a year to the day since the crtc passed an exemption order to speed up the launch of Canadian direct-to-home services, the industry faces technical and regulatory roadblocks that will hold up competition until mid-1996….

Montreal producer Richard Sadler of Films Stock International and Daniel Toscan du Plantier of France’s Erato Films have announced an agreement to coproduce a $15 million feature film adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novella Typhoon. Negotiations are underway with actor Donald…

Canada’s production industry is in danger of losing nearly $200 million worth of service production while negotiations between actra’s Performers Guild and the Canadian Film and Television Production Association continue. So says Nick Counter, president of the u.s. Alliance of Motion…

When Elizabeth McDonald stepped into her new job as president of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association Aug. 16, a fire of baptism awaited her. She walked into an organization in the thick of government lobby efforts to stave off…

Nelvana has plans to extend its repute as a major animated series source, and to establish itself firmly on the roster of studios regularly producing full-length animated features….