Montreal: Filming wrapped Aug. 27 after 25 days on Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story, a two-hour tv movie dramatization of the 16-year-old’s heroic marathon swim of Lake Ontario in 1954. The $4-million mow will be broadcast on cbc and is the…

Producer/writer/director: Carl Bessai…

Vancouver: With the box office success of The Prince of Egypt, DreamWorks is moving forward with a sequel called Joseph. And again Bardel Animation of Vancouver has been called in to handle some of the animation chores….

Get on the phone. Get online. If you’re a Luddite, get thee to Canada Post. Whatever your preferred mode of communication, short filmmakers, start using it immediately if you want to sell your film….

Montreal’s digital visual effects producers are facing some growing pains after years of relatively stable development have given way to a sharp jump in tv drama and commercial production, especially in the past two years. The next big step for some…

Quebec filmmaker Lea Pool is working on her first English-language feature, based on the novel Taxi pour la Liberte (Taxi for Freedom) by French-Canadian journalist Gilles Gougeon….

In a move claimed to be a ‘passive investment,’ CanWest Global Communications has scooped up a chunk of Alliance Atlantis Communications (aac) voting shares, giving the broadcaster an increasing share of control, but a small piece of the pie….

The Canadian Television Fund’s breakdowns of funding to the documentary sector show combined oversubscription to the tune of $23.3 million….

Montreal: Behaviour Communications has sold its Canadian distribution division to Industry Entertainment principals David Reckziegel and John Hamilton. The target closing date for the $4-million cash deal is Sept. 2. In the past 10 days, Behaviour has sold off its digital…

Montreal: In the opening scene of the new Max Films comedy La Vie apres l’amour, an everyday, prosperous dentist is summarily abandoned by his wife of 20 years. The result is a downward spiral of breakdown and midlife depression, but told…

Trina McQueen has left her post as president at Discovery Channel for the role of executive vice-president at ctv. In her new role she will oversee programming, sales and operations of the ctv network, its stations and affiliated specialty channels….

Montreal: In two Orders-in-Council, the federal Cabinet has upheld the May 21 crtc decision to license four new French-language specialty channels, and asked the commission to evaluate the feasibility of a French-language performing arts specialty tv service in Canada. The cabinet…