Montreal: The Montreal Film & TV Commission has launched an attractive and resourceful website just in time for the North American ‘faux boom’ production rumble and the looming performers strike in the u.s….

*Montreal Film and TV Commission…

Montreal: Specialty channels are gaining market share in Quebec and present opportunities for producers with the right kinds of programming….

Montreal: Leading the French specialties are the all-animation service Teletoon (Family Channel) with a 3.3 share and Reseau des Sports (Bell Globemedia/NetStar) with a 2.8 share, according to Nielsen Media Research fall 2000 numbers for the Province of Quebec (2+). …

Vancouver: Producer Robert McDonagh of Vancouver’s Fortress Films has pulled off a double hat trick with the six-part anthology Hotel he directed for Bravo!. …

Vancouver: Six Lions Gate Entertainment films received nominations, the most ever, at the 16th annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards….

The International Audiovisual Programme Festival in Biarritz paid tribute to the National Film Board on Jan. 18 for its outstanding body of work and for its ongoing commitment to an ideal of excellence and innovation….

About a year ago, Toronto-based John Greyson and Phyllis Laing of Winnipeg attended the Local Heroes Canadian Film Festival in Winnipeg, and in the course of the customary festival meeting and greeting started talking about making a film together. This year…

Montreal: Bernard Emond’s evocative portrait of an aging alcoholic survivor, La Femme qui boit, is the opening night film for the 19th edition of the Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois, the Quebec industry’s annual film and video production retrospective….

‘Look down, way down, and I’ll reveal the website.’…

More Canadians than ever before are heading down to the 2001 NATPE Conference & Exhibition, being held Jan. 22-25 in Las Vegas….

Actor Al Waxman, who endeared himself to Canadians in the 1970s cbc sitcom The King of Kensington, died Jan. 18 at Toronto Western Hospital following heart bypass surgery. He was 65….