Upstart Red Apple Entertainment, helmed by Tim O’Brien and David Brady, is in production on one of its first series, Singles Court….

New Brunswick producer Bruce Dennis has a full plate heading into fall. Under the banner of his Fredericton production house, Millbrook Productions, Dennis has two feature films currently on the go….

Ottawa 00 International Animation Festival Sept. 19-24 Ottawa (613) 232-8769 www.awn.com/ottawa…

It’s not the Real World, it’s not Big Brother and it doesn’t pay $1 million, but Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting’s newest venture, U8TV, offers Canada’s young and hip, as Michael MacMillan says, ‘a chance to get a life.’…

montreal: Total financing for international film and television coproductions involving Canada in the first eight months of calendar 2000 has reached $571.3 million, with much of the action dominated by France and the u.k….

Montreal: The Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters is calling for more marketable Canadian movies, pointing to the need for increased production and entertainment value, an increase in higher-budget films and more genuine risk-taking on the part of both producers…

Ten years ago, Christina Ford had a better idea. Today, it’s getting even better. It was back in 1990 that Ford first noticed a trend of increasing numbers of U.S. directors coming to Canada to shoot TV commercials. That’s when she…

In 1997, Rogers In House Productions was launched to service Rogers Communications’ internal production needs in a professional environment, ‘not involving [the] volunteers’ who give their time to Rogers Community Cable productions. By 1999, the quality of work coming out of…

The focus of this regular section is on agencies in Canada. Looking for agency business strategies and creative teams’ secret weapons? We tell all in Ad Missions….

Apple Box Productions executive producer Barbara Walker is leaving the Toronto company she helped nurture to success to pursue a career as a long-form filmmaker. Walker, who opened the Toronto office nine years ago with a phone, a computer and a…

Montreal: Acclaimed Canadian actors Matt Frewer and Kenneth Welsh are the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and sidekick Dr. Watson, respectively, in the new Muse Productions tv movie The Hound of the Baskervilles….

In just 25 years, the Toronto International Film Festival has become one of the pre-eminent market-driven film festivals in the world….