James Davis is executive producer/partner at Jolly Roger, Toronto….

National Film Board animator Co Hoedeman has received the prestigious Klingsor Prize at the Biennale of Animation of Bratislava. In October, the Biennale organized a retrospective of Hoedeman’s films, including Continental Drift (’68), Tchou-Tchou (’72), the Oscar-winning film The Sand Castle…

Nelvana has struck a multifaceted deal with Germany’s RTV Family Entertainment ag. Nelvana says the agreement, finalized Dec. 3, gives rtv television, home video, and merchandising sub-agency distribution rights to 560 Nelvana current and library half-hours for exploitation in Germany, Eastern…

Montreal: The board of the Canadian Television Fund has confirmed its elimination of the $10-million cap on coproduction funds, but is maintaining the status quo regulation on eligibility for ctf funding. Coproductions applying for ctf funds will continue to be evaluated…

* Specialty launch backed up to Jan. 31…

Vancouver: A couple of productions in Victoria are squeezing in before the millennium gong strikes. And they cap off a best-ever year of production in the provincial capital….

Travesty Productions is a busy house these days with a diversity of provocative projects underway….

Telefilm Canada’s western office and the B.C. Council of the Directors Guild of Canada have five new winners of the annual Kick Start program. Winning filmmakers from the four western provinces and three northern territories get $10,000 each to put toward…

Credo Entertainment has made a sale to Discovery Channel for its health and travel show World’s Greatest Spas. Discovery is taking the series for the u.s., Latin America and Iberia. wtn, which licensed the series for Canada, has signed on for…

Montreal: Coproducers Motion International and Editions Dupuis of France and international distrib Paramount International Television plan to have a completed episode and trailer of the new one-hour adventure series Largo Winch ready for natpe in January….

The Genie Awards paint a portrait of the evolving financial structures and production trends of feature filmmaking in Canada….

It should not come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention that the Icon Productions/Alliance Atlantis Communications coproduction of Atom Egoyan’s Felicia’s Journey has been nominated for 10 Genies, including best motion picture. The follow-up to Egoyan’s acclaimed…