Montreal: The Ontario Film Review Board has reversed its ban of Ron Mann’s new documentary Grass. The film will now be released with an aa rating. Grass is a humorous, 50-year chronicle of government criminalization of marijuana….

Lea Pool (Emporte-Moi) makes her English directorial debut with the Quebec/Ontario coproduction Lost and Delirious….

* Jeffrey Elliot has been appointed senior vp of Alliance Atlantis Communications. In his new role, Elliot, former managing director of Netstar Interactive, will work directly with president and ceo Michael MacMillan and the presidents of the company’s operating groups in…

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Film Reference Library, a screenwriter mentorship program has been created to help aspiring talent develop their skills under the guidance of an experienced screenwriter….

Canada has put forward a strong showing in this year’s Rockie nominations: of the 84 Rockie nominees drawn from around the world, nine are Canadian….

When Calgary Flames star Sheldon Kennedy shocked the nation by admitting that he endured years of sexual abuse from his junior hockey coach, ctv president and ceo Ivan Fecan found himself moved by Kennedy’s courage. Believing that the hockey player’s story…

Whether he’s documenting the failure of neo-liberalism in Mongolia, experiencing life in Canada’s federal prison system, or, as in the case of his latest Rockie-nominated episode, sneaking a camera past Turkish soldiers into Kurdistan, Jean-François Lepine declares, ‘I have a great…

After weeks of rumors and threats, and one day after the cbc board finally met over – and approved – its English-television transformation plan, the Mother Corp. has announced it will not slash 14 local, supper-hour newscasts. Instead, it will break…

*Devine’s Q1 revs drop…

Tires screech on the busy streets of Montreal and as the sirens wail to the accident scene, Wendy Tilby wonders whose life has just been drastically altered: who has just lost someone, and who has possibly just died. ‘I was always…

Telefilm Canada will sponsor the New Media strand, introduce a new international event and present $60,000-worth of awards to tv programs in English, French and aboriginal languages at this year’s Banff Television Festival, June 11-16….

The future of television is the focus of ConvergenceTV.com, a conference scheduled for Aug. 9-10 at the Toronto Hilton Hotel. Produced by Playback, the event will bring together industry professionals for nine sessions on the expanding relationship between interactivity and traditional…