Devine Entertainment has terminated its agreement with CIC Productions to distribute the Toronto-based prodco’s Not-So-Grimm-Brothers series….

Vancouver: Voyageur Film Capital Corp. has a new name, a new advisor and a new acquisition….

The late Maruska Stankova, former head of the Directing, Acting and Writing for Camera workshop, will be honored by friends, family, students and colleagues at a tribute Tuesday, Nov. 28, 5:30 p.m. at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, 14…

Baddeck, N.S.: The small town of Baddeck, n.s. might seem an unlikely locale for a high-tech conference, but from Oct. 19-21 its quaint Inverary Inn was the site of some very cutting-edge discussion as part of the Baddeck International New Media…

Roma and Raja Khanna, who head up Toronto-based Snap Media, were on the main stage every day at last month’s Baddeck International New Media Festival discussing the plight of online content providers such as their company….

Many producers of traditional tv programs have turned to a dot-com company to forge some kind of presence for themselves on the Internet. In the case of Life Network’s weekly cooking series Dish It Out, however, itv company ExtendMedia and producer…

‘You can’t think of us as just a television company anymore – we’re a multimedia content and distribution company,’ proclaims Gary Maavara, vp and gm of new media at CanWest Global. He is referring, of course, to CanWest’s $3.5-billion takeover of…

Interactivity necessitates all forms of transition, from retooling a broadcast facility to determining future ‘killer application’ revenue structures. To some, interactive content offers the promise of expanded storytelling tools. It also provides broadcasters with solutions for advertisers that dissuade remote control…

He’s been called a visionary and an apostle, the father of independent production and the godfather of coproduction – even a frustrated thespian!…

Will the real Pat Ferns please stand still! Although we reckon the real man behind the producer/impresario/visionary mask is unknown by most, we’ve tried to tap into his essence. Following are the musings of some who have worked with him, from…

It’s all bright lights and big names for the Canadian Film Centre. Established in 1988 by Academy Award-winning director/producer Norman Jewison, the cfc boasts such glitterati alumni as Don McKellar and up-and-comers like Tricia Fish and Vincenzo Natali….

Competition is part of life for film students at Montreal’s Concordia University. Those in film production know they will have to fight to get their films made – just like in the real world, says Peter Rist, associate professor of film…