Montreal: Filmmaker Vali Fugulin (www.six.lemondeestpetit.ca) says that when she attended her first Tupperware party, she thought she’d stepped into a time warp.

Toronto – Producer David Brady lost his biggest star last month when Angus, the world’s largest captive elephant and subject of his documentary The Giant Walks Home, died shortly before he was to be sent back to Africa.

Ottawa ­- GAPC Entertainment is currently in production on a new one-hour documentary for CHUM Television and SCN called Who’s Afraid of Happy Endings?, about the lucrative world of romance novels.

Vancouver – Local prodcos Ocean Playground Productions and CKO Films are headed into post after 19 days shooting the HD drama Traveling at the Speed of Life.

* MGM has begun production on season 10 of Stargate SG-1 and season three of Stargate: Atlantis for the Sci-Fi Channel. Production on the Vancouver production staples runs from Feb. 20 to Oct. 10.

Toronto: CBC has begun shooting preliminary footage for its new 7 x 60 series Kraft Hockeyville, while fielding applications from communities across Canada hoping to become the show’s titular town, and host an NHL exhibition game at their local arena.

Edmonton – If horror movies have taught us anything, it’s that sequels are bound to follow. And Tom Berry, the coproducer and cowriter of Decoys, the Ottawa-shot 2004 movie about teen alien body doubles, isn’t messing with that formula.

Cold Lake, AB – Vancouver-based Paperny Films will begin its 35-week-long production of Jetstream, an 8 x 60 for Discovery Channel Canada, on April 3.

Montreal – Working conditions became downright eerie for Montreal-based screenwriter Matthew Cope after he was commissioned to write the final version of The Flood, an ambitious miniseries that imagines London besieged by water.

Toronto – Montreal’s Muse Entertainment is partnering with Toronto production house Back Alley Film Productions on two television projects.

You could almost smell burning rubber as the CHUM Television awards show machine recently announced it was pulling up stakes at the Metro Toronto Convention Center and parking itself at The Carlu, a more glamorous T.O. venue, for the 26th Annual Genie Awards on March 13.

In a bid to draw more 18-34 viewers to its March 13 Genie Awards coverage, CHUM is ditching the format of its previous two outings as broadcaster of Canada’s annual film fete. This year’s show will veer far from CHUM’s earlier sit-down dinner approach à la Golden Globes, not to mention the traditional theatrical awards show template employed for many years by CBC.