The 25th annual Toronto International Film Festival will spotlight several premieres at gala presentations over its Sept. 7-16 run….

They came. They saw. They converged….

Montreal: The crtc is scheduled to begin hearings September 18 on bce’s $2.32 billion take over of ctv. The benefits package advanced by the telecommunications giant is being pegged at $232 million, by far the largest in Canadian broadcast history. Deadline…

In the article ‘Egoyan Launches Spot Career’ that appeared in the August 7 issue of Playback’s On The Spot, it was unclear that Atom Egoyan is represented in all areas of the entertainment and commercial industries by Ralph Zimmerman of Great…

Montreal: SODEC and its European marketing partner Linking Market Forces are calling for feature film and tv movie project submissions for the second edition of Contact, a feature film financing distribution and coproduction market slated for Berlin, Nov. 24-26….

There was an error in the July 24 story ‘Earth: Final Conflict switches to Sony 24p HD.’ The description of the hd formats should have read as follows:…

Quebec-based producers, and certainly members of the apftq, whether they’re in features, tv or documentaries, have been rather consistent in expressing their dismay with the all-encompassing ‘visibly Canadian’ requirement of the Canadian Television Fund. There’s clearly no evidence obtaining ctf or…

Our July 24 report on Studios & Services omitted the following studio listing:…

An unprecedented five out of 29 short films featured in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Perspective Canada program were chosen from the Ontario Film Development Corp.’s Calling Card program for dramatic shorts….

‘People are idiots!’ exclaims culturecrat Ken Finkleman as he launches into a diatribe denouncing the business-mindedness of greedy governments and heralding the tv medium as a vital expression of Canadian culture….

Academy-Award-winning independent producer/director Jeremy Thomas (All the Little Animals) has been named the keynote speaker for this year’s Rogers Industry Centre sessions, which encompass all industry initiatives at the Toronto International Film Festival….

The Norman McLaren Heritage Award, the animation world’s equivalent to film’s Lifetime Achievement Award, has been given to Rene Jodoin….