The National Screen Institute – Canada is calling for applicants for submissions to its 2001 Drama Prize Short Film Development Program. Providing a maximum of $44,000 each to as many as six teams of filmmakers, the prizes can provide a combination…

* Randi Kirshenbaum has moved into the newly created position of senior vp, international coproductions and financing at Alliance Atlantis Television Production. Most recently Kirshenbaum was the company’s vp, business and legal affairs. Her new role will expand to include all…

Local 873 of iatse is attempting to return to the collective agreement that managed technicians on commercial sets until almost 13 years ago. Back in 1988, a failed negotiation left the technicians working on commercial sets without a collective agreement….

Astral Television Networks has contributed $500,000 through Moviepix to AV Preservation Trust of Canada….

Vancouver International Film Festival director Alan Franey’s fervent wish for the festival is for it to one day disappear. He says he hopes one day festivals will be unnecessary because of expanded distribution systems….

VIFF Trade Forum producer Melanie Friesen is naturally sweet on her 2000 lineup – that’s her job. But she says the highest cal addition to the menu, ‘the maraschino cherry in our banana split is the legendary Roger Corman….

A pair of heinous crimes 10 years ago, planned by a spoiled British Columbia teenager who knew way too much about Caligula, set the scene for Sturla Gunnarsson’s latest feature, Scorn….

Director Karen Murray describes her 48-minute documentary on blind photographer John Dugdale as ’15 ‘snapshots’ ‘ about his life and work, but the word does not do justice to the stunning poetic treatment of this remarkable story or the man at…

As late as the 1970s, American engineers had it in mind to widen the Panama canal with an unusual explosive: atomic bombs. Alaska almost had a harbor blasted into it care of five a-bombs. And plans were seriously discussed to extract…

Remember when you were a child and you thought you’d like to write down your ambitions for your grown-up self? Perhaps you even decided to make a list of what you thought you could accomplish by the time you were a…

Fast drugs, fast traffic, fast technology, fast pace of life: these are some of the overwhelming factors that frustrate the lead characters as they try to improve their place in the social order in Kevin Speckmaier’s 100-minute feature Middlemen….

Mystic, bumbler or would-be martial arts master – these stereotypes of Asian males inspired the National Film Board production Who is Albert Woo?…