Montreal: Lea Pool’s coming-of-age movie Emporte-Moi, an international festival favorite, is Canada’s preselection choice for consideration in the Oscar’s best foreign film category….

For historical purists, the idea of using modern techniques to enhance or alter archive footage – particularly for non-fiction programming – is anathema. But as technology drives the push for ‘bigger, better, and brighter, most doc-makers are willing to concede the…

Montreal: Two realistically portrayed but very different teenage brothers are reunited with their mom in 2 Freres, one of the season’s best new drama series….

vancouver: On Nov. 15, Vancouver producers Jeff Barmash and George Erschbamer of Cinevu Films begin 13 episodes of Call of the Wild, the first dramatic series commissioned by Animal Planet, a division of Discovery Channel….

An additional 13 episodes of the children’s dramatic series Mentors has been licensed by Family Channel and will go into production next summer….

Cinematographer Gregory Middleton received a Genie Award nomination in 1997 for his first feature. That film was Lynne Stopkewich’s Kissed. He followed that up the next year with another nomination for lensing Raul Sanchez Inglis’ The Falling. This year, the Montreal-born…

CBC is taking its cyberset to primetime….

*Maya plug-in creates hand-drawn look for 3D…

According to Jolly Roger director David Tennant, the only common denominators in his life at present are an airplane seat and a camera….

Review subcommittees are currently reporting to the Canadian Television Fund’s board on a variety of concerns, including separate deadlines for different program genres, maximum licence fee requirements for coproductions, and balanced funding for renewals and new series. New guidelines should be…

Montreal: While the rcmp carries on with its investigation of alleged illegalities in tax credit claims made by Cinar Corporation for an unspecified number of Canadian content productions, the industry has started to counteract consumer press reports and statements made in…

Bell ExpressVu president Michael Neuman proved a master of understatement in a cacophony of digital hype as he surprised a group of journalists late last month by quietly presenting the first commercial transmission of hdtv programming in Canada….