The final episode of Global Television’s Gemini award-winning Traders will air on March 16….

Montreal: Astral Media has announced a $150,000 contribution over five years to Canadian Women in Communications….

Montreal: The 18th edition of the International Festival of Films on Art opens with a gala screening of Zhang Yimou’s Turandot in the Forbidden City at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The sprawling, big-budget Chinese adaptation of Puccini’s unfinished opera…

Canadian cinema exhibitor Galaxy Entertainment is entering into a strategic alliance with Famous Players and Alliance Atlantis Communications to build new state-of-the-art theatres and refurbish existing complexes in midsize Canadian cities….

* Macdonald joins BCE Media…

Montreal: Amidst a barrage of unattributed claims in the press, legal suits old and new, and police investigations, Cinar (www.cinar.com) has reported the purchase of Twin Sisters Productions, a 13-year-old privately held Akron, Ohio-based children’s educational record label and publisher. The…

Alliance Atlantis Communications has extended its first-look production and development deal with British prodco Natural Nylon Entertainment….

Vancouver: If sheer elbow grease earns you credibility in the movie business then Miridien Filmed Entertainment will have Hollywood at its feet. Okay, an exaggeration, but the Vancouver-based, low, low, low-budget production company – which amalgamated Jan. 20 with equally budget-conscious…

Montreal: Primesco International and producer Goulam Amarsy are shooting two new imax films, Bears, directed by Sudbury, Ont.-based Science North biologist and filmmaker David Lickley (Shooting Star), and the nature adventure Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance from director Bayley Silleck…

Halifax’s Ocean Entertainment has gone beyond its post-production house roots and evolved into a major player on the Eastern Canadian production circuit. After launching programs like The Resourceful Renovator and The Inn Chef, the idea mill at Ocean has been churning…

* Golden Nymphe for Bonhoeffer…

Sandra Richmond and Glen Johnson are associates in the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch. Richmond practises in the KNOWlaw group and Johnson practises in the Public Markets group….