While attention is sharply focused on the coming of hdtv, one emerging, interactive entertainment company is ‘busy plotting the new-media revolution.’ At least that’s what an eerie, computer-generated voice exclaims when you reach the answering machine of Toronto-based Smiley Guy Studios….

Montreal: Astral Communications management, including president and ceo Ian Greenberg, chairman Andre Bureau, vp development Jacques Parisien and vp finance Claude Gagnon are currently visiting four Canadian cities to discuss the sale of subscription receipts with institutional investors….

Montreal: Principal photography wrapped earlier this month after 33 days on Arto Paragamian’s dark comedy Two Thousand and None (working title). An ironic tale of life, death, memory and fossils starring John Turturro in the role of a brilliant paleontologist with…

Alliance Atlantis Communications has announced the details of a new executive development training program to be managed by the Banff Television Festival. aac will provide $1.8 million over six years to develop the Alliance Atlantis Banff Television Executive Program, which will…

Vancouver: B.C.’s Whistler ski resort will host the first annual Whistler International Film and Television Festival Nov. 16-19, 2000….

Banff, Alta.: Telefilm Canada, the Canadian Television Fund and a wide range of industry partners have announced a major international coproduction program for next fall called Storytellers’ Summit, scheduled for Sept. 3-8 in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto….

Vancouver: Yet another founding member of Red Sky Entertainment has left swiftly and under unhappy terms….

Vancouver: The two-year-old Victoria Film Commission has fewer than 60 days to come up with $100,000 or it will have to close its doors, a prospect that would deflate (at least the optimism of) the present and expanding balloon of production…

Toronto-based Loten Media and Saskatchewan’s Partners In Motion have inked a deal to coproduce a 26-part children’s stop-motion series, Dear Tildy, which features a kangaroo and her zany neighborhood friends whose travels take them across the map….

Just over a year ago, ex-ballerina and up-and-coming documentary filmmaker Isabella Cairess Favaro jumped on a plane to Chicago to track down ballet great Mikhail Baryshnikov….

Taking a look at upcoming film and tv talent in Quebec means looking at two distinct markets….

Lighting systems by American manufacturer K 5600 have not been widely represented in Canada up until now, but that’s about to change if Toronto equipment sales, rental and service house Cinequip has anything to say about it. At a recent film…