The Ontario District Council of the Directors Guild of Canada has added production accountants and their assistants to the Guild Basic Agreement with the cftpa….

The majority of cable customers want their digital services offered to them on a ‘pick and pay’ basis, says a new study conducted by The Strategic Council and published by the Canadian Cable Television Association….

Montreal: Hong Kong’s newest mega-star Lau Ching-Wan is the top bill at the fifth edition of Fantasia, the International Festival of Fantasy, Action and Genre Cinema, which opened at Montreal’s Imperial Cinema July 13 and runs through to July 31….

Following the success of its 1999 Australian Exchange Programme, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is setting up another exchange for Canadian doc filmmakers, this year with Nordisk Panorama, an annual festival celebrating Nordic docs and shorts and taking place…

Vancouver: Mark Benard, president and digital effects supervisor of Vancouver post house Lost Boys Studios, has purchased back shares of his company held by Virgin Digital Studios….

Vancouver: Rainmaker Digital Pictures, a division of Rainmaker Entertainment of Vancouver, has introduced a new Digital Design Internship for aspiring visual effects artists. The program is sponsored in part by the National Research Council….

Montreal: Telescene Film Group reports net earnings of $5.8 million on top-line revenues of $61.4 million for the 12-month period ended Feb. 29….

Vancouver: Omni Film Productions of Vancouver is producing its first two series financed without government subsidy….

Halifax’s Jeremy McCormack is following up his popular documentary Camp x with a film about legendary Canadian cameraman Osmond Borradaile. McCormack is batting around a couple of titles for the project, including Cameraman and Borradaile’s Century….

Toronto’s Protocol Entertainment and Crawfords Australia have entered into an official coproduction treaty on a new live-action series, The Saddle Club, an adaptation of Bonnie Bryant’s book series of the same name….

The future is now on the set of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict. The science fiction series shooting at Toronto Film Studios is entering its fourth season with a distinct difference. Having previously originated on 35mm motion picture film, Earth: Final…

For cinematographer Kent Nason, the simpler the gear, the better. Although Nason has shot tv dramas and features, most of his 30 years in the business have been spent working in documentary. ‘And in documentary,’ he says, ‘you’re trying to be…