Montreal: Blackwatch Productions has signed a six-pack movie production deal with Saban International. The deal follows a late August announcement that the company’s expanding distribution division, Blackwatch Releasing, and Trimark Pictures in the u.s. have signed an output agreement for Trimark’s…

An article in our Aug. 23 issue mis-stated the title of Shelley Nowazek. She is a communications consultant to Telefilm Canada’s western region. Telefilm’s director of communications is Suzan Ayscough….

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Following an internal shuffle, the crtc has appointed an acting executive director of broadcasting. Jean-Pierre Blais, formerly broadcasting counsel in the agency’s legal directorate, has been named to take over from Susan Baldwin. A spokesperson for the regulatory body says no…

Toronto-based Regan Productions is launching a broadcast program production branch in Halifax on Sept. 30….

Montreal: In line with its stated strategy of developing its core production and international licensing slate, Behaviour Communications has announced the formation of a new production division, XL Productions, headed by industry veteran Kevin Jones….

After screening 403 submissions, breaking last year’s record of 366, Perspective Canada 1999 programmers underwent the arduous task of selecting 19 features, 37 shorts and one gala to unspool at tiff….

Vancouver: Steven McDonald and Crawford Hawkins thought they were raising $3.5 million in debt financing to purchase the equipment that would take dated Telepost Film & Video into the high-definition future. Instead, the public company principals bought competitor Finale Editworks for…

Despite a woman’s allegation that the repeated killing of Kenny on South Park, broadcast on cict-tv (Global, Calgary), is harmful to her son who bears the same name, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council says the animated series is not gratuitously violent….

Entering its second year of operation, Annex Entertainment is moving away from service work and towards more proprietary productions….

television Quatre Saisons has named Robert Parent to head up its new Montreal-based production company, Productions Point-Final. The broadcaster has not yet identified the full scope of Point-Final’s activities, but initially it will concentrate on news and information programming. Parent, who…

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