British Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Gordon Brown delighted domestic and international film producers and financiers in March when his budget speech announced a three-year extension of the popular British sale-and-leaseback tax relief structure….

Canada’s television regulator – the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (crtc) – no longer requires Canadian producers to contribute a minimum of 65% of the financing for an official coproduction in order to access funding from certified independent production funds….

Canada @ Cannes, the international symposium that connects producers, financiers and entertainment executives from all over the world with Canadians as production partners, returns to the Cannes Film Festival & Market this year for its third event….

Another Canadian company has enhanced the national tradition of strong ties with France….

Cuppa Coffee Animation of Toronto is coming to mip for the first time, with two new cel-animated shows in development to showcase at the market….

With a new policy mandate from government and an expanded funding envelope for feature films, Telefilm Canada is raising its profile at this year’s Cannes Film Festival & Market. The federal funding agency has relocated to street-level offices at the Grand…

London-based Fireworks International, the distribution arm of Canada’s Fireworks Entertainment, may have made its ‘first foray into the non-fiction programming market at mipcom 2000,’ but at mip-tv, the company is giving an international launch to its new strand, True Crime, a…

GOLD/L’OR…

Concentration is the name of the game. As goes the United States, so goes Canada, with the top few players buying up suppliers domestically and abroad, shrinking the number of drama distributors taking product to market. …

Comedy/format at MIP:…

Edgy, edgier, edgiest. It’s no surprise comedy and format series are inching farther and farther onto the precipice of what’s funny and what’s in good taste….

The buzzwords at this year’s mip-tv animation booths will be ‘mixed media’ as studios undertake more and more blending of live action, 2D, 3D, clay animation, puppetry, cel or Flash animation….