Harry Gulkin was understandably reflective as he faced retirement from his position at SODEC, the Quebec government’s film-funding body.

• Noah Cowan has been replaced as co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival by veteran film programmer and broadcaster Cameron Bailey. Cowan is now artistic director of Bell Lightbox, the festival’s future year-round home, stepping in for the departed Jim Hamilton.

House of Wax director Jaume Collet-Serra has brought his latest to Toronto, and is shooting The Orphan with Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga at Cinespace Film Studios. The story by first-timer David Johnson follows a husband and wife who, bereaved of their baby, adopt a mysterious nine-year-old girl. Don Carmody (Silent Hill, Skinwalkers) exec produces the thriller, which Warner Bros. plans to release later this year.

Jonathan Baltrusaitis is the Calgary-based editor of In a World Created by a Drunken God, a made-for-TV movie based on the play by Drew Hayden Taylor about a half-native man who is approached to donate a kidney to the father he never knew. The Pyramid Productions movie is slated to premiere on APTN in 2008.

After two weeks and $600,000, Seville is betting there’s a market for Jean Lemire’s adventure doc Le Dernier Continent in the rest of Canada. Now all it needs is a narrator

The network, BC Film and New Media BC are taking pitches from producers for interactive programming and tools for web

Controversial purchase of Alliance Atlantis okayed by CRTC, with $151 million set aside for producers. ‘Great day’ for both companies, says Asper. ‘Outrageous,’ says union

Media buyers remain upbeat about Chris Haddock’s beleaguered series, which closed its second season in the mid-200s, though word from the Intelligence set is that there won’t be a third

Crown prince steps aside from TIFF to be boss of the festival’s new year-round headquarters. But why? New post just as important — if not more — says Handling

TV makers in Quebec are lamenting the possible demise of the network, which draws audiences rarely seen in English Canada

Ending a year marked by harsh criticism and calls for an overhaul, the Canadian Television Fund looks to streamline and simplify. Recent CTF revenues up 5%

The Toronto company is putting up $35 million to buy the U.K.-based media giant, looking to nab its distribution wings and the Fireworks library