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Two new programs at Banff
Writers and showrunners to get special training at annual TV festival under partnership with Canwest
OUTtv to share programming
Deal with U.S,-based here! includes feature films and series Dante’s Cove
Travel show goes the distance
Are We There Yet? closes deals with casters in nine territories, including Disney Japan and Al-Jazeera
The Small Screen: Canwest just wants ‘to get to work’
Some years back, at a dinner at the Banff TV festival, a commissioning editor friend introduced me to a production executive at Global. I remember trying to come up with a polite way of asking him what the heck it was that he did all day. This was during the bad old days when Train 48 seemed to be Global’s only answer to Cancon.
Film industry calls for more flexible copro treaties
Canada needs more flexible film copro treaties to compete effectively in the global marketplace, say film players in both official languages.
Saturday Night gets a makeover
TVOntario’s Saturday Night at the Movies, which has brought classic Hollywood films into living rooms since 1974, is getting a makeover.
Away from Her wins big at Genies 28
Unlike recent years, English Canada dominated the 28th Genie Awards, with Away from Her and Eastern Promises taking the lion’s share of the prizes, though Sarah Polley’s drama edged out the David Cronenberg thriller for most of the major awards, including best motion picture honors.
ACTRA applauds Beautiful City, Peterson
Actors Caroline Cave and Aaron Poole turned the ACTRA Awards in Toronto into a ‘Beautiful’ thing.
People
• Six weeks after she exited Showcase, Rachel Fulford resurfaced this month at Blueprint Entertainment, joining the border-straddling company as VP of creative affairs. She arrives in step with U.S. veteran Michael Rosenberg, who has been posted to the company’s L.A. office as SVP of creative affairs.
The Burning Question
The Tories say it will bring federal tax credits in line with the criminal code, while critics, since taking notice of Bill C-10, have been running out of synonyms for ‘Orwellian.’ By now we’ve all heard plenty from Ottawa, so instead we ask plain ol’ taxpayers:
Tories’ true colors emerging
When the federal Conservatives came to power two years ago, there was no immediate cause for the film and TV sectors to be alarmed. But based on recent reaction from the industry, that time has most certainly come.
This isn’t rewarding risk-takers
Ian Cooper is an associate at Toronto law firm Stohn Hay Cafazzo Dembroski Richmond LLP, which focuses on entertainment, copyright, and technology
Artistic expression versus the Christian right
Heritage Minister Josée Verner has repeated with numbing earnestness that Bill C-10 is not censorship, and that she is a friend of the arts.
ICE08 confab looks at games
The rise of games and user-generated content on social media sites is among the themes that panelists and speakers will address at this year’s Interactive Content Exchange conference in Toronto.
Sportscasters set online records
Sportscasters are patting themselves on the back for their online coverage of the NHL’s trade deadline day last month, which set records for online traffic in a single day for TSN, RDS and Sportsnet.
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