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Special report: Industry Unions & Guilds: WGC looks to slow the exodus
Someday soon, the jokesters say, Los Angeles will be one of the largest Canadian cities. The Writers Guild of Canada doesn’t see much humor in that….
Special report: Industry Unions & Guilds: ACTRA focus shifts to promote Cancon
In January, the Union of British Columbia Performers was incorporated into actra, bringing to a close a five-year battle between the two rival unions in b.c. that tore away at the entire national membership….
Special report: Industry Unions & Guilds: Directors Guild: Defending Canadian interests
Directors Guild of Canada president Allan King says the guild’s basic production policy is to accommodate any and all Canadian projects….
Special report: The Year In Review: Salter Street: staying lean, going public
Salter Street: No one ever said being a Canadian independent producer was easy, especially in the fiscally restrained nineties. But in 1996 there were a few bright spots to speak of, particularly $100 million of new money in the Canada Television…
Special report: The Year In Review: Partners’ adapts, evolves
The Partners’ Film Company: Building from scratch, exploding in the go-go eighties and facing the challenge of today’s unforgiving marketplace, one constant in the long, strange Canadian commercial production trip has been The Partners’ Film Company. Its ubiquitous seven stars have…
Special report: The Year In Review: Mag South: life on the cutting edge
Magnetic South: Putting your money where today’s best odds in post technology trends lie is a little like playing Russian roulette – with the fates of an entire company at stake. That’s the game post facilities are in. Some version of…
Special report: The Year In Review: Building on distribution: Cinema Esperanca
Cinema Esperanca: The possibility of PolyGram joining the Canadian production and distribution marketplace has meant increased scrutiny for Canadian distributors. By rising up against foreign influence, the existing Canadian companies are feeling a need to prove they’re doing their fair share…
At Press Time
Contribution agreements between Canadian Heritage, the Cable Production Fund and Telefilm Canada have been signed, meaning that the new Canada Television and Cable Production Fund can begin issuing cheques….
B.C. attacks CTCPF plans
Vancouver: The b.c. film community is so incensed about its exclusion from the new 16-member board of the Canada Television and Cable Production Fund, people are considering aggressive action: everything from appealing to the crtc to intercede to opting out of…
Crash, Lilies top Genies
David Cronenberg’s commercial and controversial Crash towed away the most statues at the 1996 Genies Awards with a total of five including the Golden Reel Award for the top Canadian box office gross but John Greyson’s Lilies, which had…
On set: Prairie Doves
Outside Davin, Sask., an 1870s western boom-town sprang up from the prairie dust in mid-October. Not just a few houses and stable fronts, either. We’re talking a full-fledged community with a blacksmith shop, corral, graveyard, a boarding house, a choice of…
Shaw fund angst
The financial plans for 13 children’s projects are in limbo in the wake of news that their access to the federal tax credit could be denied because the Shaw Children’s Programming Initiative is one of the investors….
B.C. to lose big: Shelter shut down
Montreal: Promoters of a limited partnership tax shelter for service productions are predicting a sharp reduction in foreign film and tv shoots in Canada, especially in British Columbia, following a decision by the federal Finance Department to shut down the shelter….
More specialty applications
The specialty channel distribution and packaging quandary will take on new dimensions this week as broadcasters and the cable companies file their requests for amendments to the lists of Eligible Satellite Services….
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