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Dazzling EyeSteel doc rethinks copyright

‘It’s nice to be at a festival like IDFA with a piece of art,’ says Brett Gaylor, the justifiably proud director of RiP

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Deal for Dealership

Canwest has ordered another pilot, giving the green light to producers Virginia Thompson and Robert de Lint…

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Equinoxe re-teams with Kigali author

Léa Pool is behind the camera on the first-ever Canada/Luxembourg coproduction, Une belle mort

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Cruickshank returns to print

Career newspaperman John Cruickshank is to bolt from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp….

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Paris comes to Amsterdam

Paul Cowan’s Paris 1919, a creative docudrama on the world-shaping conference that concluded the First World War, drew a respectful…

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Privatization deal in peril

BCE’s $34.8-billion privatization will not go ahead if it does not secure a favorable…

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Debt deal complete at Alliance

Alliance Films has completed the repurchase and refinancing of all its outstanding debt, ahead of…

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Gross, Fichman go with Gunless

The hyphenate hero of the number one Canadian movie and its producer are teaming up again…

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Moysey shuffled at Canwest

Canwest Global Communications has folded its broadcast digital media assets in with its newspaper…

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Twilight shines for Seville

It’s smiles all around at E1 Films, where the success of Twilight ‘pleasantly’ exceeded expectations…

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Global readies 16:9

Investigative reporter and new arrival Mary Garofalo will front Global’s new half-hour magazine series…

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Quebec comics star in Peepers

A band of voyeurs who rove the rooftops of Montreal peering through windows is the basis…

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Producer of the Year: Anne Marie La Traverse & Bill Mustos

The long road to success for Flashpoint was about finding the right story idea and script for the Canadian ensemble cop drama, and then getting CTV and CBS to bite.

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The Establishing Shot: Broadcasters and BDUs vie for digital supremacy

The tension between broadcasters and the cable and satellite providers has been bubbling in the digital age, and the CRTC’s recently unveiled new policies have turned up the heat even further. And those media companies that will come out strongest are likely those with a hand in both pies.

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The Big Screen: Saw V helmer Hackl on the cutting edge

In a horror franchise, the production designer is arguably more important than a director or even the screenwriters.