The Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund has announced a new slate of 21 non-theatrical projects despite a funding cut of more than 50% this year. A total of $233,360 has been allotted by the Ottawa-based private-sector fund, which headed into…

vVancouver: Canadian broadcast pioneer Frank A. Griffiths Sr., chairman and founder of WIC Western International Communications, died in Vancouver April 7 after a lengthy illness. He was 77….

Imax Corp., the large-format film innovator, plans to join the throng of public film companies. The Canadian-based, American-owned company filed a statement April 11 with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, d.c. proposing an initial public offering of 3,250,000 common…

What came first the program or the sponsor?…

askatoon: There’s a trend that’s winning converts among television sales departments and sponsors, and it’s called sales promotion. The idea is to tie sponsors to a contest that promotes a program or event, making both sides winners….

Saskatoon: Nobody really knows what the ‘information highway’ is or how exactly it will affect television, but people in the business ignore it at their peril….

Three former Air Company associates – Bob Johnston, Tim Tickner and Robert Armes – are getting together again in an expansion of Armes’ commercial music production company….

Members of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers gathered at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto this month to honor their own at the 37th annual CSC Awards….

Coors Light breaks away…

Bear Spots recently finished a series of four 15-second animated commercials for the Ontario Dental Association. The spots, directed by Clive Smith, came from Kert Advertising….

The long saga over the future direction of The Partners’ Film Company will probably take a dramatic new turn within about three weeks’ time….

Life on the ledge: the legacy of John Thomas…