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Fireworks expands L.A. operation

Vancouver: The Los Angeles office of Toronto-based Fireworks Television moved up the evolutionary scale Aug. 1 when the one-person development bureau became a six-person, full-service production operation….

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Telefilm backs IFFCON attendees

Montreal: Telefilm Canada’s Vancouver office is offering for the second consecutive year financial support for Western Canadian producers selected to attend the 8th annual International Film Financing Conference, to be held Jan. 12-14, 2001 in San Francisco….

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Linda Cullen

Like many fellow Gemini nominees before her, Linda Cullen is quick to point to the fact that receiving a nod after your show has been canceled is ‘the height of irony.’ She does it with a fair bit of grace, though,…

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B.C. Film pairs interns, mentors

Vancouver: Nine interns will take part in this year’s professional development program sponsored by British Columbia Film….

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Large-format confab wraps

Montreal: Close to 700 film and technology professionals, including a sizable delegation from the Canadian umbrella group Giant Screen Consortium, attended this year’s Giant Screen Theater Association conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Sept. 14-19….

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Mark in Canada

The truth is out and Playback’s audience needs to know this: when they’re writing tv industry spoof Made In Canada, they don’t actually think too much about the Canadian tv industry….

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Confidential information: Keeping it in the company

Sandra Richmond is a member of the KNOWlaw group of the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch. This article was prepared with the assistance of Aaron Dhir….

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Tag a tale of youth crime

Montreal: The new 11-hour Radio-Canada drama Tag begins with a violent and convincing chronicle of war between youthful inner-city street gangs and a portrait of children on the margins and their relationship with their stoned-out mother….

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Dunk shot Santa

When Bert Dunk got the call to shoot Must Be Santa, billed as the most expensive in-house cbc movie ever, little did he know that fate and troubled labor relations were destined to create a more fantastical opening scene even than…

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Bellwood does second flick

Making the festival rounds with their first feature Deeply, Carolynne Bell and Sheri Elwood of Bellwood Stories are in development with their second feature, Clue in the Fast Lane….

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Buckley’s mixture

Michael Buckley is a filmmaker who creates powerful, resonant images. As serendipity would have it – and most fortuitously for the coproducers of Dr. Lucille: The Lucille Teasdale Story – he is very familiar with shooting with Canadians, but his life…

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Comedy Network shows retooled for year-two runs

Vancouver: The Comedy Network, through its commitment to developing new Canadian talent, is supporting two West Coast series in their second seasons, though neither resembles their inaugural productions much at all. In fact, producers are saying the new shows are not…