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Innoversity aims to change media landscape by promoting diversity
Unlike a university, Innoversity seeks to educate its attendees in a matter of days.
Made in Canada wins twice at writer awards
Wham, bam, thank you Sean Cullen, who once again steered a roomful of half-soused writers through their annual awards gala in what must be record time – doling out seven Canadian Screenwriting Awards in just over half an hour on April 19, playing to a packed house at Toronto nightspot This is London.
Top court liberates copiers
Simon Chester is a partner in the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch LLP and a member of the firm’s KNOWlaw Group. This article was prepared with the assistance of Lisa Parliament.
Nothing vapid in lobbying for drama dollars
Laszlo Barna is executive producer of Barna-Alper Productions, and chair of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association.
Torstar is CHUM’s best bet
The temptation must be too great to ignore.
Broadcast
Hallmark up for three summer shoots
Documentary
Crime pays
Divine comedy prays for a future in Vancouver
Vancouver: Producers of a new spec sitcom – the first U.S.-style, three-camera sitcom format to shoot in Vancouver – are hoping for divine intervention for the future of the project.
The concept for The Rev, according to the project’s publicist, came to its Canadian creator and lead actor John Carmen after 40 nights of dreaming.
49th Parallel set to close doors
According to principal Steve Hoban, lack of commercial production work has brought down his Toronto prodco 49th Parallel (Nothing, Ginger Snaps 2), which is slowly closing its doors, ending its brief but once-promising run at long-form production and distribution.
Features
Deal with it
Service
Madness on the Coast
CSC honors top cinematographers
The Canadian Society of Cinematographers held its annual awards dinner April 3 in Toronto, presenting major awards to directors of photography John Walker, Douglas Munro, Ronald Plante, Robert McLachlan and Pierre Gill.
ShowCanada presses hot-button topics
The impact of digital technology in all aspects of the motion picture industry continues to grow exponentially, bringing with it a host of new issues, including a large rise in piracy, and millions in lost revenues. ShowCanada 2004 will address the matter of piracy, which can range from videotaping a movie in a theater, to bootlegging DVDs and peer-to-peer distribution on the Internet, from a variety of angles.
Equinoxe does it again with Passion
Equinoxe Films continues to roll.
Not getting big-screen time? Think DVD
Several distributors and producers at the CFTPA conference in January openly vented their frustrations over their films allegedly being denied a fair shot at theatrical success. Exhibitors, they said, shun Canuck movies to appease powerful and pushy U.S. distributors. One thing is certain – it’s a tough fight for access to Canada’s 3,500 screens.
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