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CTCPF: year one wraps up
The Canada Television and Cable Production Fund’s Licence Fee Program has closed out the first abbreviated year of the fund with 314 tv programs receiving support. A total of 209 English-language programs received $53.3 million and 105 French-language programs received $26.7…
Video Innovations: Radical debuts two video games
Vancouver: In March, Radical Entertainment of Vancouver released two new video game titles, which represent about one-third of its annual title output….
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15th Rendez-vous laureates
The Prix aqcc-sodec for best Quebec feature-length film at the 15th Rendez-vous de cinema quebecois has been awarded to Pierre Hebert for La plante humaine, a 78-minute ‘poetic essay’ combining live action and animated elements depicting social crisis at the end…
Shaftesbury, Heartland to coproduce in Sask.
Toronto’s Shaftesbury Films and Regina’s Heartland Motion Pictures are partnering up on $20 million worth of television movies set for production in Saskatchewan….
News Brief: Europeans top ’97 FIFA program
European productions dominated the 15th edition of the International Festival of Films of Arts, with the Pratt & Whitney Canada grand prize going to Frantz Fanon: Black, White Mask, a film from u.k. director Isaac Julien….
Openings: J’en suis scores
The Claude Fournier social comedy J’en suis grossed $145,000 during the three-day March 14-16 weekend, tops at the Quebec box office….
Mondo Canuck meets University of the Air: Or, where do you go when you need to know something about past film and TV production in Canada?
Those of us concerned with knowing and preserving Canadian film and television have to scrounge our sources wherever we can find them….
B.C. Scene: Multi-year renewal of B.C.’s master agreement in the offing
Vancouver: The renewal of the landmark labor agreement between the B.C. Council of Film Unions and Canadian and American producers is underway and could be concluded in Los Angeles the first week of April….
Quebec Scene: SDA to coproduce latest Lelouch film Apres tout
Montreal: Productions sda and famed French filmmaker Claude Lelouch have signed a coproduction agreement to shoot the director’s next film, Apres toutet meme plus….
Binchmarks: Lower thresholds, top-ups highlight new LFP guidelines
Sandra Richmond is a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch….
Word: Disney goes to Cuppaland
As the company already bought out the venerable Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who did Disney call when it needed help – selling itself?…
Storyboards: Southern exposure
A teenager struts through a shopping mall to the upbeat sounds of a drum. Mannequins turn his way, athletic shoes kick up their heels and a bright orange sweater hurtles itself towards him while a matching pair of sunglasses land on…
Commercial Directions: Hackett, Tarko shoot McD’s
Maxx Productions director Dan Hackett scored a pool of spots for McDonald’s, lensed by dop Gabor Tarko and assigned through Cossette. Flashcut’s Tim Kirkwood edited. Barry Dukoff manned the camera and the director’s chair for Benckiser Lime-A-Way through Bates Canada. Post…
CanPro ’97: Casters converge on Toronto
Toronto’s Westin Harbour Castle will be a hub of activity April 5 to 7 as leading Canadian television producers, programmers, broadcasters, and public relations folk gather in Toronto for the 24th annual CanPro….
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