At the National Film Board, government film commissioner Sandra Macdonald says she will be moving on when her term ends on April 9, but has not decided which direction her career will take next….

* Jeff Lyons has been promoted to vp, u.s. operations and sales, Alliance Atlantis Television Production. Lyons, who joined the company as manager production finance in 1995, most recently held the position of director, u.s. sales….

A talented roster of filmmakers are up for this year’s Best Director Genie. Alain DesRochers helmed La Bouteille, Denis Villeneuve directed multiple nominee Maelstrom, Robert Favreau was behind Les Muses Orphelines while Robert Lepage brought his vision to Possible Worlds and…

Vancouver: This is a set that sings. Global Television’s Big Sound – the first sitcom to be filmed in British Columbia – is crewed by people who spend their time making music of their own when not setting lights, running cable…

Vancouver: International Keystone Entertainment finalized its purchase of Vancouver distribution company Red Sky Entertainment Nov. 27 by issuing 3.6 million shares of Keystone to former Red Sky stockholders….

Vancouver: Voyageur Film Capital has backed out of an agreement to acquire LightRoom f/x, a Vancouver-based new media company, announced Oct. 17….

Fifty Canadian, 20 international and five student film projects will screen at the first annual ReelWorld Film Festival, a celebration of racially and culturally diverse film and video makers to be held in Toronto April 5-9, 2001….

montreal: The opportunities for enhanced feature film coproduction with the u.k. seem more propitious than in recent memory. Certainly that’s the hope of 24 Canadian producers who participated in last month’s feature film U.K. Immersion program in London, Eng….

And last but not least, we take a look at the talented scribes up for Best Screenplay. The list includes Clement Virgo for Love Come Down, Denis Villeneuve for Maelstrom, Gilles Desjardins and Michel Marc Bouchard for Les Muses Orphelines, Frank…

This Hour Has 22 Minutes producer Geoff D’Eon says the long-running, satirical Salter Street Films program is beginning to become one with the Internet. With a pair of successful initiatives under its belt already – one involving an online petition calling…

The Canadian Film Centre has acquired the rights to the former Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, and announced the launch of the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival, which will run June 6-10, 2001….

immersed in a pop culture saturated with a ‘from this moment’ mentality, Canadians could be forgiven for assuming our national cinema has only really gained international acclaim in the past few years. And author Maria Topalovich could be forgiven for wanting…