Four weeks before its premiere, the new Lions Gate Television series Hope Island has received an order for nine more episodes from pax tv. The new order expands the first season to 22 hour-long episodes….

Teletoon is ready to launch its new season in a ‘bigger, better and bolder’ fashion, according to Teletoon president John Riley. Launching on Sept. 6, the 1999/2000 schedule features 51 new series, 24 of which are Canadian, with the 27 remaining…

*Hot Docs to send doc makers to Australia…

Director/producer/writer: Mort Ransen…

Montreal: The Montreal World Film Festival in association with Astral Communications held a tribute screening Aug. 31 of Paul Almond’s 1971 Golden Globe nominee, Act of the Heart. The National Archives of Canada and Moviepix, an Astral Television Networks pay-tv service,…

*AAC posts groovy Q1…

Four Days, a coproduction between Toronto’s Greg Dummett Films and Montreal-based Cite-Amerique, marks Curtis Wehrfritz’s feature film directorial debut. The film was a long, and sometimes overwhelming, labor of love for the veteran commercial and music video director….

A new Montreal-based company headed by president Mark Pounds has acquired Tektronix’s non-linear editing Lightworks business. In an agreement with Tektronix, the new operation, Lightworks, will service existing Lightworks installations, including units sold before and during Tektronix’s ownership period. Pounds says…

Catherine Annau makes her directorial debut on Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the Seventies Generation, a documentary coproduced and financed by the National Film Board’s English and French Programs. She says she is anxious to see the reactions of the audience…

Montreal: The Elvis Gratton sequel, Miracle a Memphis, a Pierre Falardeau comedy coproduced by acpav and Cinepix, has reached the $3.7-million level at the box office. The film was released by distrib Films Lions Gate on 90 screens July 1….

angel Films director James Hyslop risked life and limb on two days for Rogers, donning a headcam and skydiving to capture the action. Jason Webber and Mike Williams split the camera duties and Andre Brunger edited at Magnetic North. No agency…

M.E.A.T. director Stephen Markle has followed up last year’s highly successful Showcase ad campaign with a new pool of promotional spots that target movie buffs in a funny, punny kind of way. Much like the first pool of quiz-style ads, this…