A History of Violence by director David Cronenberg and Muse Entertainment’s Human Trafficking received two nominations each when the contenders for the 63rd Golden Globe Awards were announced on Dec. 12.

Montreal: Radio-Canada’s paranormal mystery L’Héritière de Grande Ourse was the big winner at the 20th annual Gemeaux awards, taking eight of its 14 nominations on Dec. 4, including best dramatic series, best director for Patrice Sauvé and best original music for Normand Corbeil.

Gerry Flahive is a documentary producer at the National Film Board in Toronto.

As we enter the new year, the British Columbia film and TV industry must feel like it’s under siege, both from without and within. If it weren’t bad enough that producers from other provinces are continuing to call for B.C. to stop enjoying regional status from the Canadian Television Fund (see story, p. 23), now the province itself is making noise about decreasing production tax credits ­- or perhaps getting rid of them altogether.

British architect Will Alsop is working on the design of one central building for the FilmPort megastudio in Toronto, not its surrounding neighborhood, as reported in the Dec. 5 issue. The project as a whole is being coordinated by Quadrangle Architects.

The Dec. 5 news brief ‘Applications? Anyone?’ misspelled the names of filmmakers Kirsten Carthew and Teri Armitage.

Montreal: Quebec’s changing ethnic makeup is the crux of Pure Laine, a new series set to debut on Télé-Québec on Jan. 25. The 16 x 30 comedy takes its name (‘pure wool’) from the term for born-and-bred francophone Quebecois, and wrapped on Dec. 16 after four weeks in Montreal.

Shrink wrapped

* Discovery Channel Canada has greenlit the 6 x 30 series Guinea Pig – about ‘extreme performers’ Ryan Stock and AmberLynn Walker – from Frantic Films.

Vancouver – Producer/director David Paperny is developing Confessions of an Innocent Man, a feature-length documentary based on the book of the same name by William Sampson, the Canadian businessman who was interrogated, tortured and held in solitary confinement in a Saudi Arabian prison for more than two years. He was released in 2003 and published his book last year.

Forest meets The Marsh

Trapped wrapped