Salter Street Films, winner of the hotly contested digital derby for an indie film channel, is in the process of setting up carriage arrangements and sourcing material for its winning app, The Independent Film Channel Canada. But filmmakers who think this…

With a series of five digital features planned, Chris Zimmer, president of imX communications in Halifax, has a demonstrated an interest in one of the newer forms of filmmaking technology – digital cameras….

Without a u.s. release or a Golden Globe nod, Maelstrom’s marketing agents are climbing an uphill battle to get members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to stand up and take notice of the Canadian selection for the…

Montreal: The distribution power of Alliance Atlantis Communications was again highly evident in 2000 as the company leveraged a massive theatrical release slate, more than 120 films, and a promotional, print and advertising profile to match….

Montreal: When you think about Famous Players’ current megaplex expansion across the country, think added value, think big and think bottom line. The 81-year-old exhibitor’s expansion program is unprecedented in Canadian movie history….

Montreal: Domino Film and Television International has released nine films commercially in theatres in the past three years, including three films in ’98 – John Greyson’s Uncut, Ray Ramayya’s Seetha and Carole and Midi Onodera’s Skin Deep – and three more…

Vancouver: Putting the issue of foreign actor taxation to rest, the federal Department of Finance will introduce legislation that amends the Canadian Income Tax Act to allow for a 23% withholding tax on gross income earned after Jan. 1, 2001….

Montreal: Total Canadian coproduction budgets – sparked by a major jump in the number of projects with the u.k. – grew to $872.2 million in 2000, a 45% increase over the $600.4 million recorded in 1999….

A sixtysomething small-town mayor is having an affair with a twentysomething, blonde Avon-style lady who’s engaged to his gay grandson and, at the moment, is mustering up the courage to blow the old guy’s brains out as he pours two glasses…

Since 1979, Toronto’s cfmt-tv has produced commercials in multiple languages for multiple communities in the remarkably diverse city of Toronto. As it continues its steady growth, the organization, formerly called CFMT-ComProd, has been renamed Harbourfront Studios….

Kathi Prosser has seen a lot of Warholesque pop art in her day. When The Partners’ Film Company director saw the board for Unilever’s Sunlight laundry ‘tabs,’ she saw the possibility to mix art and marketing in a similar way to…

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