Clear shooting in Vic

Comeback kid

While the costs of producing 35mm feature films are creeping prohibitively high for many producers, high-definition and other digital video formats have provided a legitimate alternative, while the more economical 16mm and Super 16 formats seem to be making a resurgence.

With its seventh and final season gracing the airwaves, Cold Squad remains perhaps the most under-appreciated of all Canadian drama series.

For a cop drama so obsessed with death and dying, it’s a wonder Cold Squad survived for 98 episodes. Seven seasons for a homegrown Canadian drama – when most are killed off after one or two seasons – is like a gangster dying in bed with rosary beads in his hands. It just rarely happens.

2000: Best performance by an actress

When Cold Squad coproducer Julia Keatley ramped up Vancouver’s first primetime national drama in 1997, part of her excitement was for the local production personnel itching for a chance to do something substantial and homegrown.

Bill Mustos is CTV’s senior VP, dramatic programming.

Does the CBC want to be able to hire and fire employees at will? Or does Canada’s public broadcaster simply need the same ‘flexibility’ enjoyed by private broadcasters – namely, to acquire talent as needed to produce new shows, and to release this same talent when these shows don’t pan out?

Rebecca Schechter is a screenwriter and the president of the Writers Guild of Canada, the national association representing 1,800 screenwriters working in English-language film, television, radio and multimedia production. The WGC negotiates collective agreements with independent producers and broadcasters and serves as the voice for screenwriters, pursuing policy initiatives that bolster Canadian production.

Michael Hennessy is president of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, the national organization representing 80 Canadian cable companies that provide advanced media in the home through a wide range of entertainment, information, Internet and telecommunications services.

Following is the complete list of 2004 DGC Award winners: