1989: Take a mild-mannered, senior industrial engineer who lives in Montreal West with his wife and children, slowly add a cause that dates back 108 years, hook him up with an established producer, et voila……

1988: While studying mass culture at the Universite de Montreal, Claude Fortin shoots a short scenario on vhs in which the main character steals a camera and attempts to film his life story. The script is Fortin’s reaction to having ‘grown…

Montreal: Paul Shapiro’s The Lotus Eaters was among the Canadian standouts at this year’s Montreal International Film, Television and Video Market. According to Marie-Claude Poulin, director of Malofilm International, the film’s international exporter, ‘There was big interest in the film from…

Vancouver: Western Canadian cinema will move into the spotlight next month when more than 250 films from 40 countries are screened at the 12th annual Vancouver International Film Festival….

Beginning with David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, the opening night gala film, and closing 10 days and 18 galas later with David Anspaugh’s Rudy, the 18th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival of Festivals looks again to go down as the…

October 1991: David Cronenberg is mixing his feature Naked Lunch. He is approached by record and film magnate David Geffen to direct M. Butterfly, an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play written by David H. Hwang and produced for the…

1979: Rhombus Media is formed in Toronto specifically to make a film about famed classical pianist Glenn Gould….

1990: Vancouver writer Peggy Thompson and director Peg Campbell win a Genie for their comedy In Search of the Last Good Man. Thompson decides the timing is right to begin writing her own first dramatic feature. She sets the film in…

Starting with news from God’s country: at Vancouver’s Cactus Productions, director Randy MacDonald and dop Gabor Tarko have been awarded two spots for the Western Canada Lottery Corporation’s ‘Sport Select’ from Parallel Strategies in Calgary. James Head and cameraman Roger Vernon…

March 1989: Oka Mayor Jean Ouellette announces his municipality’s plans to build a luxury housing development and expand a private golf course into bordering lands which are part of the Mohawk Nation….

September 1988: Writer/director Harvey Crossland forms Siren Films with producer Amarjeet Rattan in Vancouver. One of the ideas the two mull over is (eventually titled) The Burning Season….

Montreal: The Minutes are ticking away again. Quebec singing legend La Bolduc and pioneer snowmobile inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier are the subjects of the latest Heritage Minutes (Minutes du patrimone) dramatizations. The one-minute history bites, the 38th and 39th in the series,…