With its bank and favor accounts buoyed to the tune of $2.8 million in cash ($1.6 million) and services, executive director Wayne Clarkson announced the Feature Film Project’s two-year, three-feature renewal….

* Former Radio-Quebec programming vice-president Alain Dufour is the fourth member of r-q’s board to resign following Jean Fortier’s appointment as president. The others are Pierre Laporte, Claude Beaudoin and Jean LaCouture….

When director Atom Egoyan announced late last month he was heading to Hollywood to make a picture, he was referring to Deep Sleep, a Warner Bros. psychological thriller written by Amy Holden Jones (Indecent Proposal, Mystic Pizza) and produced by Robert…

The long-awaited national home video rating system is finally in effect. Ratings stickers in tandem with an explanatory in-store poster convey to consumers who should be watching what, visually demonstrating age suitability with a euphoric amorphous couch-bound family (and their sensitive…

Pierre Juneau, former cbc president, crtc chair and National Film Board director of French production, has been appointed by Heritage Minister Michel Dupuy to head up a three-person review committee to evaluate the mandates and federal support of the National Film…

Montreal: Canada’s feature film profile is on the rise at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, May 17-28, with five films in the official selection including Robert Lepage’s Le Confessionnal and Charles Biname’s Eldorado in the popular the Directors Fortnight (Quinzaine des…

Cineplex deal on hold…

Producers of family entertainment are victims of media bias towards the creators of darker material. This was one of the issues on the table at Media Seminar ’95, and the above mentioned will be happy to note that media is being…

* Sam Wendel, director of the Telefilm Canada office in l.a., is moving to the private sector to head up Cinar Films’ soon-to-be-opened l.a. office. Cinar will also open an office in London, Eng., and has named Mike Watts as its…

Extra cash for Atlantis…

Movie Vista’s VCC efforts…

SODEC reorganizes…