The eight Canadian films in Contemporary World Cinema are all looking for international distribution, with subject matter ranging wildly from gun addiction to gay ex-hockey players

SRC’s melancholic drama about night club bouncers took another seven wins at Sunday night’s French TV awards. Academy boss calls on Ottawa for funding, while René Lévesque star Emmanuel Bilodeau wins best dramatic lead and calls for Quebec independence

A newly formed lobby group wants the province to offer at least 50% back on labor costs, and is pleading its case directly to Premier Rodney MacDonald

Half-hour entertainment show will make a good ‘companion piece’ to eTalk Daily, says Susanne Boyce, and comes with on-demand content for online

Newly minted CEO George Burger looking to build the brand of the two-fisted digichannel

Pay-TV startup secures exclusive rights to theatrical releases and series including Saw III and Death of a President

Holocaust picture opens 32nd edition of festival, marking the fourth entry by director Jeremy Podeswa and the tenth from producer Robert Lantos

Opening talk on new media portals agrees that, despite hurdles, there are more democratic and varied means to make money online than via traditional venues

Silk producer takes second annual win and $10,000, cites prize as sign that the domestic industry is ‘starting to come of age’

Murder by undertakers, fortune from tragedy and the psychological craziness that occurs after a first kiss are just a few of the plotlines that reinvigorate movie genres in this year’s Canada First! section

‘We never expected to shoot or make a movie with this title,’ says Aaron Abrams. ‘I still can’t believe we have.’

Anne Michaels’ novel ‘one of the most beautiful and poetic things I’d ever read,’ says Fugitive Pieces director