Financial picture…
Barna-Alper get rights…
Montreal: A year after its launch, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media has become the most successful theatrically-released Canadian documentary of all time….
Steve Ord is moving from the public to the private sector. At the end of this month, Ord will vacate his post as manager of business affairs for the Toronto office of Telefilm Canada to step into the newly created position…
New Shop does the rounds in T.O….
Montreal: An aggressive sales and servicing policy is paying off for Montreal-based RSB Video, enabling it to open a shiny new duplication plant in suburban Toronto, according to president Stan Schwartz….
June 4, 1989: The Tiananmen Square massacre. Toronto filmmaker Keith Lock (Lock Qi Guang) is moved and wants to respond somehow. He begins work on a story….
As the hordes headed back to various educational institutions, director/cameraman Greg Hoey also packed his pencils and filofax to join a new outfit, Stripes….
Fall 1988: Montreal’s Productions du Regard producer Jean-Roch Marcotte (Portion d’eternite, Alisee) acquires the film rights to Monique Proulx’s latest novel, Le Sexe des etoiles, published by Editions Quebec/Amerique the preceding year….
Class act…
Don’tcha hate it when that happens?…
1987: The myth of Patient Zero emerges in the press, which – despite evidence to the contrary – seems eager to believe that a promiscuous flight attendant brought the aids virus to North America, and then willfully infected others….