IF my cousin in Montreal can be trusted, the downward slide of the NHL’s once-revered Canadiens has many of the city’s youth turning away from Nos Glorieux in favor of – of all things – European football. Meanwhile, on the other…

SONIC Foundry, based out of Madison, Wis., is a player in the world of standards conversion – thanks in part to a little Canadian know-how. Last August, SF completed the purchase of International Image, a Toronto-based service provider for the managing…

‘The shop will be driven by service. The goal is to have a high degree of intimacy and involvement in every project.’…

For some advocates of closed captioning, the amount of service available is just fine. Quality, they say, is another matter….

PRODUCERS from Nova Scotia will be the first to give us the dramatic account of the life and works of Pierre Trudeau. Wayne Grigsby will write it and he and David MacLeod will produce it. They – Grigsby and MacLeod (Black…

New Brunswick is very busy of late, with three feature films on the books for spring and summer. …

PRINCE Edward Island, in an effort to encourage the development of the province’s crew infrastructure, has introduced a new labor rebate as a pilot program for 2001/02….

Currently shooting in Newfoundland, The Shipping News represents the most action the province has seen in quite some time….

A good leader listens to his team, whether they’re down the hall or across the country. He solicits and values their opinions, and supports their dreams. And if his passions are Canada and its film and television industry, that leader is…

Robert Dinan, Lepage Dinan Avocats and former chairman of Telefilm: He was there for a little over three years of my mandate. He was great to work with: very, very knowledgeable about the industry, very friendly, very cordial, and very open….

‘When the camera moves, it moves with authority and muscularity,’ proclaims the ever-charming and perfectly boyish Paul Gross in describing his directing style on his first feature, Men With Brooms….

The hottest rumor at the 2001 National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas (April 21-26) became reality one week after everybody packed up and left the desert oasis – no writers’ strike. The buzz was the strike wouldn’t happen because the industry couldn’t afford to let it happen, and that proved true May 4 when the 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America negotiated a tentative contract with the film studios and TV networks.
Strike apprehension coupled with the aftermath of the dot-com stock crash was evident at the show, with turnout slightly down this year. Nevertheless, with 112,776 registered attendees (including an international contingent of 29,632) on hand to check out the wares of 1,600-plus exhibitors on the one million square feet of show floor at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Sands Expo, NAB remains one of the world’s pre-eminent ‘convergence marketplaces.’