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RiP moves west, One Week expands

EyeSteelFilm’s feature documentary RiP: a remix manifesto bows in Toronto Friday, moving west after…

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New fund ‘worrying,’ says doc group

The Canada Media Fund put forward this week by Ottawa could have bad implications for independent filmmakers…

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NFB doc heads to U.S.

Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal’s doc Nollywood Babylon has been picked up in the U.S….

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Lenders cut Canwest more slack

Canwest Media has secured another extension on talks, to April 7, with its bankers…

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‘Mistake’ sends fund to early grave

Robin Jackson is spending her last weeks as executive director of the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund tying up loose ends…

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Filmmakers rally behind NFB

In the past, the National Film Board was an extraordinary place, today it’s in the process of disappearing…

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Evans exits Whistler

The Whistler Film Festival has lost its director of programming…

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Envelopes grow for 2009/10

The Canadian Television Fund will dole out $285 million to producers and broadcasters for…

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Doc is ‘Alka-Seltzer for the mind,’ says Mann

‘It’s like a philosophy phenomenon, a documentary blockbuster,’ says Ron Mann describing Examined Life…

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CBC chooses Life

The CBC is to order a full season of the Galafilm sitcom 18 to Life after it partnered with ABC on the pilot, only to see the U.S. network pass on the project…

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24 cut from Canada AM

The belt-tightening continues at CTV, which announced on Tuesday that it is eliminating…

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Rogers puts forth plan B

Forget the ISP and WSP levy, and look instead to an online video portal that Rogers Communications plans to launch later this year to solve…

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B.C. saw boom in ’08

Foreign location shooting in B.C. bounced back last year as the province enjoyed a 30% increase in…

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Brancati climbs Tree

Paula Brancati of Degrassi: The Next Generation has landed the lead in National Tree, an MOW for…

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$310 million fund to replace CTF

Federal heritage minister James Moore is scrapping the Canadian Television Fund, looking to replace it and the Canada New Media Fund…