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New ruling on private copying may not be good for broadcasters
Sandra Richmond is a partner in the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch LLP and a member of the firm’s KNOWlaw Group. This article was written with the assistance of Holly Agnew.
Being ourselves is good enough
Canada could be proud of its crews at last year’s Academy Awards, when Toronto-shot Chicago took moviedom’s top prize. Now, who would have thought that, 12 months later, an indigenous Canadian movie would take home a best film trophy from Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre? Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions did just that, winning the Oscar for best foreign-language film.
Playback Readership Poll Results
The industry is not optimistic about what it will hear when the federal budget is announced on March 23. In an online Playback poll asking readers ‘Do you anticipate Ottawa will restore its annual $100-million Canadian Television Fund contribution?’ 31.4% voted Yes and 68.6% of respondents voted No.
Corrections
Stargate SG-1 is a CRTC-certified production, not CAVCO-certified as was reported in the March 1 feature ‘Wright, Cooper prosper as Stargate keepers’. Also, the cast includes Rainbow Sun Francks and Rachel Luttrell.
Sex Traffic and snow in Halifax
During the last days of shooting Sex Traffic in Halifax, executive producers Wayne Grigsby and David MacLeod of Big Motion Pictures were faced with the King Kong of snowstorms. Production on the $11.5-million miniseries looked like it was going to be halted as more than three feet of snow covered Halifax just four days before the shoot was set to wrap Feb. 24.
Drama
Epitome has ‘Star’ power
Documentary
Paperny gets kinky again
Collideascope rocks CBC
You will not see any melodramatic vocal performances to prerecorded instrumentals on the latest music talent search production from Halifax-based Collideascope Digital Productions. These kids are actual musicians, playing real instruments and performing live gigs as they vie for a $5,000 cash prize and the chance to record a single with an EMI producer.
Features
Less chaotic
Youth
In the main
Service
Action central
Goudreau aims for Canadian ‘Titanic’
Montreal: ‘This is our Titanic,’ says producer Richard Goudreau, president of Melenny Productions, referring to the feature film Nouvelle France, his coproduction with Davis Films (France) and UKFS (U.K.). ‘It’s a great love story with an epic historical backdrop.’
Epic would also describe the $35-million budget, which makes it the biggest Quebec production to date.
Producers, Telefilm clash over envelopes
Montreal: Some of Quebec’s top producers are asking Telefilm Canada: ‘Should we be punished for success?’
PowerPost acquires Salter Street Digital
As expected, a group headed by former Salter Street Digital VP Rob Power has acquired SSD, an operation he helped develop into Atlantic Canada’s premier post-production shop.
Cine-Byte switched on to digital intermediates
Toronto-based Cine-Byte Imaging took another step toward reaffirming its position as one of Canada’s preeminent digital film facilities when it recently acquired U.K.-based FilmLight’s full lineup of digital intermediate hardware and software.
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