Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting’s Showcase has signed an exclusive three-year deal with Inside Out to be the presenting sponsor of the Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival….

Lions Gate Films has made senior personnel changes in its television, Canadian theatrical distribution and Canadian production divisions, and brought sales functions ‘back in-house following a two-year service relationship with Odeon Films.’…

Vancouver: Peace Arch Entertainment upped its credit limit with the Royal Bank by $11 million to $25 million, money earmarked for more television production….

Montreal: Telefilm Canada’s Quebec operations office has announced a series of funding deadlines covering feature films and television, both development and production, program versioning and international marketing assistance, Canadian distribution, and new media….

Vancouver: In Year 2000, Vancouver Film School is offering 12 full tuition scholarships – worth a total of $174,000, the largest giveaway in the school’s 13-year history – to would-be filmmakers in the u.s. and Canada. Two scholarships will be handed…

Vancouver: Yaletown Entertainment has doubled its exploration of the bizarre, as new series Weird Wheels joins the ongoing series Weird Homes….

Canadian special effects and animation technology companies will be dressing their booths to the nines at NAB2000, each boasting new products and updated systems….

*Shavick extends deadline…

In an effort to build audience interest for the April 14 launch of American Psycho, Lions Gate Films and Pseudo Programs have launched a month-long Net campaign that extends the film’s story. The focal point of the campaign is Pseudo, billed…

Women in Film and Television-Toronto says former prime minister Kim Campbell will host the 2000 WIFT-T Crystal Awards….

NAB2000 may at first invoke images of grand casinos and bright flashing lights. All the glamor and glitz of Las Vegas might sound like a spring break for broadcasters and the technology manufacturers and distributors they are making the trip to…

*Toon Boom releases USAnimation 5.0…