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Happy Holidays-Raising money for small business just got easier
Small businesses in Ontario have just been given an end-of-year gift. These businesses used to face enormous challenges trying to raise money from investors while not falling afoul of provincial securities laws, but that process may now be easier.
Basically, unless it can find an applicable exemption, any business that wants to raise money from investors must prepare a prospectus – a document that provides comprehensive information about a business for potential investors. This is an expensive and time-consuming process, which means it’s not a viable option for most small businesses.
Unfortunately, for many small businesses, finding an applicable exemption can be almost as difficult as issuing a prospectus.
Shum rolls on Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity
Vancouver: Writer/director Mina Shum is back in the driver’s seat with her third feature Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity. And for the third time, actor Sandra Oh is the lead.
Produced by Raymond Massey (Massey Productions, Vancouver) and Christina Jennings and Scott Garvie (Shaftesbury Films, Toronto) as a B.C./Ontario coproduction, the magic realism story is about Chinese-Canadians who live in Vancouver’s east side.
Mindy, a young girl, uses Feng Shui to help her single mother’s financial and romantic lives, but ends up yielding unexpected results.
Gardner debuts Camcat on Resident Evil
Timing, as they say, is everything, and Toronto-based director of photography James Gardner is proof positive. Earlier this month, Gardner assumed camera duties on a spectacular $1-million climactic sequence for the feature Resident Evil, shooting in downtown Toronto.
Short Takes
Kodak news
Playback Person of the Year: Leonard Asper
Convergence has been a shaky mast for Canadian broadcasters to nail their colors to amid a softening economy.
Industry falls back to earth in 2001
While Y2K turned out to be a record year for the Canadian film and TV industry, with a tally of $4.4 billion in production, a much deflated figure is sure to characterize 2001, a year in which various events south of the border had a jolting impact locally.
Comeback of the year
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Quotes of the Year
‘I created Kensington, but he created King.’
Top 10 Canadian Films in B.O.
Distributor Film Release Total Box
The year in gear
EIGHT players in Canada’s post-production industry answer the question: ‘What was the biggest story in equipment in 2001?’
Growing up with the industry
Looking back at the inaugural issue of Playback magazine, published Sept. 29, 1986, provides a poignant reminder of how far the Canadian film and television industry has come in 15 years, how some things never change and how Playback has truly been there all the way, morphing and evolving alongside an ever-burgeoning production and broadcasting community.
Top 15 Sweet for Egoyan
While it’s no surprise two of Atom Egoyan’s films placed high on Playback’s list of top Canadian films of the past 15 years, with The Sweet Hereafter taking first place and Exotica fifth, the absence of David Cronenberg films might raise some eyebrows. Canada’s master of macabre proved his own toughest competition, with many votes being divided evenly among Dead Ringers, Crash, eXistenZ and Naked Lunch, with none making the final cut.
A view from the future – November 2016
Dan Lyon is the executive VP of distribution for TVA International.
15 years of box office champs
Each year at the Genie Awards, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents the Golden Reel Award to the producer(s) of the Canadian film that earned the highest domestic revenue at the box office during that year’s qualifying period. The following is a list of the top grossers of the year in Playback’s lifetime.
Telling Canadian stories in a converged world
Elizabeth McDonald is president and CEO of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association. In this article, she reflects on the growth of indigenous Canadian production over the past 15 years, and the challenges it faces over the next 15.
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