Citytv’s new QT-QueerTelevision, a weekly, half-hour, magazine-style program dedicated to the lives and loves of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community, will premier on City and CablePulse 24 on March 5, and will also be streamed exclusively on San Francisco-based…

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Canada at Cannes 2000, an international symposium and reception hosted by the Canadian film industry during the Cannes International Film Festival, will be setting up shop on the Riviera for its second year on May 14….

Montreal: Program format dealer Distraction Format has opened an office in Paris. The move coincides with a merger with Paris-based Ross Entertainment, with Grant Ross named managing director and head of European acquisitions for Distraction….

Montreal: Charles Biname’s ensemble love story La Beaute de Pandore will open the 18th edition of the Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois retrospective Feb. 17 at a gala screening at Montreal’s Cinema Imperial. A Quebec City launch at the Musee de la…

Douglas Barrett and Sandra Richmond are members of the KNOWlaw group of the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch. This article was prepared with the assistance of Jung-Kay Chiu….

Montreal: Documentary house Poly-Productions and veteran producer Pierre Brochu have joined with Productions Point de Mire, a tv documentary and drama house. With Brochu on board, vp and exec producer Raymond Gauthier says more than 20 doc projects, almost all aimed…

Newfoundland producer Paul Pope is busy looking for a director and top-level cast for his new feature film Rare Birds. The comedy is being produced by Pope’s Pope Productions and Vancouver’s Big Pictures Entertainment (with producer Janet York), adapted from a…

Vancouver: Harvey Entertainment, the publisher that owns the rights to Ritchie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost and a host of other classic cartoon characters, has engaged Vancouver’s Mainframe Entertainment to produce the cgi video release Casper’s Haunted Christmas….

Gemini Award collector Barna-Alper Productions (Da Vinci’s Inquest, Milgaard, At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story) is riding the wave of its recent successes with a hefty drama development slate worth $400,000, two feature films in the works,…

It’s hours before the deadline. As usual, the client has changes. What else is new? The sign-off ballet goes to intermission again, as you wait for changes being ping-ponged between Toronto and Vancouver….