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Three more years for TVO bosses
Educhannel re-signs Lisa de Wilde and Peter O’Brian, applauding push into digital
Q&A with Astral Media’s Ian Greenberg
A graduate of Harvard Business School’s advanced management program, Ian Greenberg is the president and CEO of Astral Media and final gatekeeper of its jewel in the crown, The Movie Network.
The Establishing Shot: Distributors look to foreign screens to survive
It’s funny how different players in Canadian film distribution could hold such varying public opinions on the state of the business.
Ottawa steps in to decide future of CTF
Ottawa: The federal government is to step in and decide the future of the embattled Canadian Television Fund.
Digital Media: Creatives want cash from ISPs
Ottawa: Indie producers, unions and guilds faced tough-sledding at the CFTPA Prime Time conference (Feb. 20-22) as they called on the CRTC to force Internet service providers to fund Canadian digital media production.
Moose TV is funniest at Indie Awards
Ottawa: Producer Ernest Webb grabbed the best comedy Indie Award for Showcase Television’s Moose TV, before he paid an emotional tribute to his father.
The Burning Question
The future of the Canadian Television Fund. Far-reaching consolidation in the broadcast sector. The role of the CRTC in the digital age. A whole new film distribution landscape. Going green. There was plenty to chew on as producers reunited for their annual confab at the Westin Ottawa. Somewhere between the chocolate fountain and the panel on convergence we scurried around the halls to ask attendees:
Post-strike, network schedules still uncertain
The WGA pickets are down, and production on popular American TV series has restarted for delivery ahead of the May sweeps. Now the bets are on whether the U.S. networks will radically change how they develop and launch primetime shows – as intimated during the Writers Guild of America strike – or whether they settle back into usual rhythms.
Second Toronto megastudio takes shape
Ahead of cameras rolling at a proposed six-soundstage movie studio in Toronto, real estate developer Castlepoint Developments has ordered in dump trucks for demolition and environmental cleanup work.
Editors declare Jewison an ACE
Toronto filmmaker Norman Jewison will have to make room on his mantel for another trophy, after having received a special award from the Hollywood-based American Cinema Editors.
People
• CBC has added Linda Black, Mary McNeil and Brian Mitchell to its board of directors. Black and Mitchell come from the Law Enforcement Review Board of Alberta and law firm Mitchell-Gattuso, respectively, while McNeil serves as president and CEO for the B.C. Cancer Foundation.
Sold!
• Bruce McDonald’s The Tracey Fragments is heading stateside, and will hit New York on May 9, premiering at the Museum of Modern Art. A nationwide release is set to follow through ThinkFilm.
Recreating hidden history on Paris 1919
Veteran documentary maker Paul Cowan isn’t leaving it to the historians to reveal and interpret our past.
Screening out the hatemongers
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council recently cleared VisionTV
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