Douglas Barrett is a partner and a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch….

At Imported Artists Film Company, Richard D’Alessio directed a day on a pool of four for Bell Canada through Leo Burnett, with James Gardner handling the lens. The D’Alessio/ Gardner team also scored a prelight and eight shoot days in Halifax…

Sugar Bear upgrades…

Molson’s new all-Canadian boy…

Animatics Multimedia, the Ottawa-based makers of Midnight Stranger, and Global X-Change Communications, an Internet service company also in Ottawa, are codeveloping a ‘worldwide, interactive social drama service’ on the Net….

Film and TV production tops $1 billion in ’94…

In-de-pen-dent: adj (1611) (1): not subject to control by others: self-governing (2): not looking to others for one’s opinions or for guidance in conduct…

‘We have to work miracles’…

Producers across Canada are attempting to change a non-negotiable crtc stipulation that applies to the Cable Production Fund. The ruling states broadcasters must commit 35% of the production budget to the producer. The fund will then pay 30% of that amount,…

Montreal: A delegation of prominent National Film Board filmmakers found themselves out in the cold when they traveled to Ottawa this month to meet with Canadian Heritage Minister Michel Dupuy….

The Film Works, a Toronto-based production house, has set up a new company in partnership with Cori Film Distributors. Film Works/Cori International will deal in international sales of film and tv productions as well as film financing and packaging of coproductions….

On March 6, the crtc will open the Information Highway Public Hearing, a month-long exercise that will hear testimony from the major players in the broadcasting, telecommunications and cable industries. All are fighting for position in a new digitized communications and…