Director/writer/coproducer: Jeremy Podeswa…

Toronto-based direct-broadcast-satellite service Bell ExpressVu has added 17 new channels to its roster, bringing the total number of video and music channels offered to 180….

vancouver: A quarter century of quietude in Vancouver’s television broadcast community was obliterated in 1997 when the crtc awarded the first television licence in southern b.c. since ckvu launched in the early ’70s. The local market has been turbulent since, with…

as ctv continues to forge alliances with u.s. television networks and international press agencies, the downsizing of its foreign bureaus is gaining momentum….

Montreal: Five Canadian filmmakers long active in the u.s. film and tv industry have announced plans to come back to Canada and establish a film, tv and Internet-content production company in Montreal. The partners in High Five Entertainment say the low…

Telefilm Canada’s Francois Macerola is calling for an increase of nearly 90% in direct federal funding for feature films as of April 1, 2000….

the National Screen Institute-Canada is set to launch a second round of the Features First program, which will take five teams of emerging filmmakers from across Canada through an individually customized skills training and feature film project development program….

Shaw Communications shareholders have overwhelmingly approved the spin-off of Corus Entertainment as a separately traded and independently operated company, effective Sept. 1….

Poptronik Incorporated, a recently launched film, tv, multimedia and music company in Toronto, is in late development on a slate of feature films and an Internet game….

Vancouver: Rainmaker Entertainment Group of Vancouver says its efforts to move beyond its post-production roots in Canada have been ‘time consuming and expensive and distracted the Company from its post-production business.’…

The Rogers Industry Centre has altered its mandate and opened its programming strand for TIFF 1999 to address a wider array of filmmakers aside from producers….

With the recent announcement of a five-year, $30-million commitment to feature films, cbc is looking to up the ante in its role in financing Canadian movies, as are other broadcasters across the spectrum of regional, pay and specialty services….