Expanded services, simplified rules, but mostly an emphasis on the status quo, are key features in a new crtc policy for ethnic broadcasters….

Vancouver: Fox Family Channel is taking its first foray into one-hour drama by committing to 22 episodes of Cliffhangers, a new series by Lions Gate Television and Paramount International Television. Production began in Vancouver July 19….

Apple Box Vancouver director Gerald Casale and dop Dylan MacLeod shot two days for London Drugs for Bryant Fulton & Shee. Melanie Snagg edited at Coast Mountain….

Oh, to be a British Admiral circa 1840 who can pick up and travel an ocean only to drink beer and party in a place like Nova Scotia. A lovely thought, but for those of us without imaginations, The Partners’ Film…

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When Curtis Wong of Microsoft Corp. presented graduates of the Canadian Film Centre’s MediaLinx h@bitat with their diplomas July 12, he summed up their work by noting a dichotomy that prevails within new media….

Citytv director/producer Brad Brough has joined the roster at The Directors Film Company where he will be represented for the first time in the commercial market….

A series of boat cruises attended by an international creative and production contingent at the 1999 Cannes International Advertising festival gave Toronto’s filmblanc the chance to build on the presence it established at last year’s show. filmblanc used the show as…

Imported Artists has resigned its relationship with l.a.-based rsa usa which the Toronto shop had been representing in the Canadian market for about six months….

Industry Films director Vadim Perelman ironically started his directorial carrer by shooting psas that completely contradicted his day-to-day life….

An additional three half-hours as well as a 26-part series are being developed based on Stories from the Seventh Fire, the half-hour kids’ program which was awarded a Telefilm/TVNC Aboriginal Production Award at last month’s Banff Television Festival….

Shaftesbury Entertainment has acquired the rights to six murder mysteries by Saskatchewan writer Gail Bowen, two of which – Deadly Appearances and Love and Murder – will go before the cameras this summer….