The Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation has drafted a proposal for a financial incentive strategy to create long-term employment and stimulate private investment in the Nova Scotia film industry….

TVOntario and CBC Newsworld are making good on their promises to fund documentaries. And there are a lot of familar faces in their lineups….

Gerry Flahive is senior communications manager at the National Film Board in Toronto….

TOPIX Computer Graphics and Animation is using Discreet Logic’s FLINT software to produce commercials, a move that is thought to be an industry first….

Bill Gates, chairman of software giant Microsoft, predicts that multimedia will cause a greater social change in the next few years than personal computers have over the past decade….

‘Force majeure’ protection for seismophobes and the rest of us…

The National Association of Broadcasters gathering, March 19-24 in Las Vegas, just seems to get bigger and bigger….

Although interactive programming is creating the latest buzz in the production industry, Shane Lunny of Lunny Productions insists most programs currently being produced are ‘dumb, slow and just plain obvious. ‘…

New additions to Credo’s six-pack…

Industry representatives and CBC insiders are cautiously optimistic about the naming of CBC’s new president, Tony Manera. Most industry insiders believe the Liberal government made a conservative choice appointing Manera. ‘As bureaucratic decisions go, it was a good one, but it…

For its 1994/95 term, the Writers Guild of Canada wants to reallocate its resources to better enforce its agreements, according to the wgc’s new president, Pete White….

It was generally a healthy year for theatrical distributors in English Canada, according to the country’s leading distribution companies. C/FP Distribution had a very strong 1993 with theatrical receipts totaling over $12 million, according to Karen Rosenbaum, general sales manager….