A-Channel Entertainment has sold rights to two packages of feature films to Canadian pay-tv services, but says the company is not moving in the direction of output deals….

Montreal: Capital Communications cdpq, a subsidiary of Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, has taken a minority equity share in Hollywood multimedia entertainment company Mosaic Media Group….

Vancouver: The first Whistler International Film and Television Festival debuts Nov. 16-19 in Whistler, b.c….

Established commercial directors are the subject of this regular feature. Each issue we will profile their careers, accomplishments and the ideas that propel them to new advertising heights….

LTB Productions director Christopher Gentile and dop David O’Keefe shot two 15-second spots over a day for Nu-Gro. The spots, ‘Wipeout’ and ‘Weedout,’ were executive produced by ltb’s Wayne Fenske. Agency credits go to Kelley Advertising creative director Lynn Ridley and…

Montreal: Industry exhibition and distribution consultant Alex Film has launched a website service featuring up-to-date, biweekly box-office reports from 700 screens across Quebec. President Carole Boudreault says efforts are underway to create an identical online service for the English-Canadian theatrical market….

The contributions of top black Canadian and foreign film, television and video professionals will be honored at The Black Film and Video Network’s 12th annual Reel Black Awards, Sept. 9 at the Design Exchange in Toronto….

LIFT’s 7th annual National Salon des Refuses, an annual venue for films rejected by the Toronto International Film Festival, this year takes place Sept. 6 – the eve of tiff – at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto….

Chris Lamon, a Canadian stuntman working on the Warner Bros. Pictures feature Exit Wounds, died Aug. 22 from injuries sustained on the set of the film, currently shooting in Toronto….

A post-heavy Honda/epcor spot recently began airing across Alberta introducing a cross-promotion between the two companies involving the former’s new hybrid car, which runs on equal parts gasoline and electricity. The spot’s Edmonton-based director, Michael Hamm of Frame 30, says he…

An article in Playback’s Aug. 21 issue says, in error, that the Sextant Entertainment series The Rumfords is ‘coproduced by Paxson and AGE Productions.’ In fact, Sextant is the sole producer of the program and Pax is the u.s. broadcaster….

What if we tried to apply a filmic characterization to define the impact of the Internet on society? The Internet, with its shadowless psychological, visual and economic sweep, suctions the entertainment industry. Makes moot all our dearly held assumptions about identifying,…