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Enviro films win at VIFF

Audiences set a box-office record for the Vancouver festival this year, and gave top marks to environmentally minded titles including Garbage Warrior from the U.K. as well as the animated Persepolis

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CTV forms promo department

In-house agency under Rick Lewchuk to handle promotions including on-air, advertising design and street-level marketing

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Telefilm renews doc project

National funder puts another $1.8 million into effort to put non-fiction features into theaters

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Storm brewing at Brightlight

B.C. production house reached Down Under to copro new live action sci-fi, looking to launch in 2009

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Food Network preps new Iron Chef

Latest spin-off of the Japanese franchise set to air Sundays, leading into a new cooker with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver

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Global hopes for broad appeal with ‘da Kink

Global’s spunky new comedy looks for viewers on Sunday nights, where it joins The Simpsons in the net’s comedy block

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Weirdsville producer guarantees laughs

Toronto producer Nicholas Tabarrok is so certain that his black comedy is funny that he’ll give any dissatisfied moviegoers their money back

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Chefs doc gets Nouveau fest off to appetizing start

Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma opened with Guillaume Sylvestre’s culinary doc Durs à cuire, with 15 works slated for the Canada program

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Keys to the VIP asks guys with game to vote online

The Comedy Network’s returning show that pits playa versus playa is getting interactive for its second season

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Teletoon awards new crop of animators

The 24/7 animation specialty earlier this week doled out $70,000 in scholarships to next-generation talent

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CTV pushes Daisies on demand

The number-one network is making its U.S. series Gossip Girl, Big Shots and Pushing Daises available for free on Rogers VOD

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CBC Maritimes experiments online

New cross-platform effort to be tested on East Coast using original and local content for the Net, DVD and TV