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Sextant rolls out The Rumfords

Vancouver: Sextant Entertainment Group of Vancouver announced May 17 that the nbc-owned Paxnet-pax-tv has picked up The Rumfords, a computer-animated/ live-action series (think Roger Rabbit) about a tv family forced to move to a down-and-out neighborhood when their show gets canceled….

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Stories from the Seventh Fire

Alberta-based producer Gerri Cook is not sure her environmentally friendly series can save the planet, but she is certain that it will help to entertain it….

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Richey plans top-secret kids show

What a difference a year has made for filmmaker Cristine Richey. This time last year she was busily preparing her documentary on deviant sexual practices and sadomasochistic behavior, called Tops & Bottoms, for the festival circuit. This year, she is preparing…

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Rosenberg persists with Ruby

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Indigenous animation burgeoning

Vancouver: Service contracts with big u.s. and Canadian animation companies – the staple of most Vancouver animation companies – have dwindled significantly and have created an environment where local studios need to put their long-held hopes of doing their own material…

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Paulie and Sasha: It’s a bear market

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Two picks up two

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CyberPitch breaks new ground for interactive

The CyberPitch is one of the newest and hottest elements at Banff….

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Piano Lessons ‘pure serendipity’

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Canadian content in flux: changes in the CRTC and CAVCO rules

Diana Cafazzo is a lawyer at the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch and a member of the firm’s KNOWlaw Group….

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Location scouting heats up on the West Coast

Vancouver: Now that pilot season is done and the manufacturing of film and television productions is proceeding, jockeying for locales has begun in earnest with nearly 30 projects currently scouting the West Coast as a production base. The genres are split…

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McDonald goes hard core with sex, violence

Sex, violence, sexual violence – whichever way you slice it, a large portion of Bruce McDonald’s latest round of feature films in development can be characterized by any one of these box-office attributes….