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….

Montreal: The Christian Duguay action film The Art of War is this year’s winner of the ACCT Golden Reel Award for top box-office performance by a Canadian film….

It’s official – the first offspring of the bce/ctv union has been born and named….

Montreal: Distributors and exhibitors are deeply upset with the scope of an Industry Canada Competition Bureau investigation into allegations of collusion and unfair business practices under the Competition Act against Cineplex Odeon and Famous Players, Canada’s two major movie exhibitors….

Montreal: The new owner of Avanti Cine Video, one of Quebec’s most successful primetime program suppliers, has plans to break into the English-language market in the near future. ‘I would like to try a pilot or a coproduction next year,’ says…

Relentlessly disappointing financial results have forced Cogeco Cable to cut 150 jobs by Feb. 1. But further consideration of its financial woes could lead the country’s fourth largest cabler to take the cue from Moffat Communications and sell to the most…

Montreal: The federal government has extended Francois Macerola’s mandate as executive director of Telefilm Canada to July. Macerola’s mandate was officially terminated Jan. 3, but he was back in his rustic rue Saint-Jacques office on Monday, Jan. 15….