montreal: Max Films producer Roger Frappier says he really appreciates the support from cast and crew on director Pierre Gang’s period drama Le Sous-sol, but the producer of Declin de l’empire americain and Un zoo la nuit says making movies at…

Robert armstrong is a broadcasting and film consultant based in Montreal….

* The crtc has received applications from WIC Western International Communications and CHUM Ltd. for a new English-language tv station to broadcast in the Ottawa area….

* TV5 Quebec-Canada says its new site on the World Wide Web has been especially conceived to make program information and skeds available to French departments at u.s. universities. The www page was created by V(DL)2. TV5’s www address is: http://www.tv5.ca….

* Gross distribution revenues in the Quebec theatrical market, including theaters and cine-parks, for the u.s. majors were $51.8 million for the year ending March 31, 1995, according to the annual report from Regie du cinema, the government’s administrative tribunal for…

* Panavision Canada Corporation and William F. White have announced the termination of discussions regarding a proposed merger between the two companies….

* The National Film Board’s New York office reports the sale of a second 20-hour package to A&E Networks in the u.s., including cable channels A&E and The History Channel. The deal includes 26 titles, among them, Forbidden Love, The Tibetan…

* MPR Teltech of Vancouver has been chosen as the supplier of mpeg audio encoders for International Datacasting’s Audio/Data Satellite Broadcast Systems….

* Vancouver’s Motion Works has entered into an agreement with Educorp Consultants Corporation, an international educational technology consulting firm in Roanoke, Virginia, to develop the technical design and concept for a proposed series of interactive multimedia math titles for a leading…

* From June 1 to July 31, Telefilm Canada agreed to participate in 34 new tv and feature projects to the tune of $20,106,806….

* Cinar Films reports it has sold all 65 half-hour episodes of its spooky campfire anthology Are You Afraid of the Dark? to Nickelodeon, Australia. Nickelodeon u.k. has renewed its licence for the first three seasons, episodes 1 to 39, produced…

* Theresa Buckley, president of the Association of Canadian Film Craftspeople, has announced a restructuring program for the organization which will require the downsizing of two positions. Business agent Donato Baldassarra and staff member Tami Thomson have been released from the…