The crtc’s new television policy is being hotly, sometimes cynically, debated across the spectrum of Canada’s production and broadcast industries with assessments ranging from ‘naive’ to ‘delightful’….

Montreal: The 40-minute animated imax feature The Old Man and the Sea had its official release June 11 at a screening in the presence of HRH Prince Charles at the new British Film Institute Imax Cinema in London, Eng….

Banff, Alta.: Telefilm Canada has announced a series of guidelines which eliminate publicly traded production companies’s access to the agency’s development and production revenue-sharing funds….

Banff, Alta.: Paris-based Reed Midem Organisation, host of the mip-tv and mipcom audiovisual program markets, has announced the launch of WEM – The World Education Market, ‘about the international business of education.’…

From the days when flying logos ruled the air, the art of broadcast design has evolved at an accelerated pace, adapting to the tremendous growth and diversity in the broadcast industry….

With no elves, no reindeer and around 85 visual effects shots, cbc tells its version of the classic Christmas story with the help of gvfx, Toronto/Vancouver….

Valerie Creighton has been named acting general manager of Saskatchewan funding agency Saskfilm after the board of directors decided not to renew the contract of Don Archbold, who held the position of gm for one year….

Vancouver: Leaders of the B.C. Council of the Directors Guild of Canada are spearheading the new Motion Picture Institute of British Columbia for independent filmmakers, it was announced during the recent Banff Television Festival….

Vancouver: As part of its overall restructuring plan, WIC Western International Communications has closed its WIC Television head office in Toronto and moved it to Vancouver, a consolidation that resulted in three layoffs, including former president and ceo Jim Macdonald….

Vancouver: More housekeeping at WIC Western International Communications has led to the sale of its wireless technology division WIC Connexus to MaxLink, a competitor based in Toronto….

The newest incarnation of Discreet’s 3D Studio Max modeling and animation solution program has users and beta testers taking their stiffened thumbs and turning them skywards….

Oh, the extemporaneous joys of live-event production. Where Murphy’s Law generally applies to these sorts of projects, when you take the show to an incredibly remote location where even the basic infrastructure for broadcast production is non-existent, that law becomes survival…