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Special Report: Vancouver International Film Festival: Taking chances, finding gems
‘It just crossed my desk, it came to me out of nowhere, I knew nothing about it even being made out here,’ says Canadian Images programmer John Dippong of Drawing Flies, one of ‘the gems’ he found while wading through a…
Special Report: Vancouver International Film Festival: Film & Television Trade Forum: Navigating independent production
Despite the critical and commercial success of his feature My Own Private Idaho, director Gus Van Sant has never been able to hustle a dime out of the project….
Special Report: Production in Vancouver: Grunge’s renegade filmmakers
The dwindling amount of federal money making it west of the Rockies is beginning to spark a renegade culture in indigenous cinema here….
Special Report: Production in Vancouver: B.C. film and TV industry statistics
Film and television production volumes are up this year over last, says b.c. film commissioner Pete Mitchell, and 1996 is en route to being the fifth consecutive year of growth for the industry….
Two new labs
It’s a Toronto lab-stravaganza as two new film processing ventures gear up to service the film and television production market….
Specialties greenlit
Drained champagne bottles mark the first week of September as 23 new specialty channel licensees nurse celebration aftermaths and begin the practical processes of getting the services – guaranteed to sink a minimum of $17 million into Canadian programming over the…
Mayfair enters ring
A month after Joel Roodman and New York’s Ark Pictures announced $10 million available in film production financing dollars, more millions are in the offing for the indie community via another transplanted Canadian….
On set with Mrs. Cherrywinkle
winkle vt: to spruce up, make more colorful or generally improve the lovability of. Used predominantly on the set of Mrs. Cherrywinkle, a new children’s series from Owl Communications for Family Channel that’s shooting from Aug. 14 to early September in…
Applicants file interventions
Vancouver: Of the five applicants vying for a new Vancouver-Victoria television licence, only Craig Broadcasting and CanWest Global filed official reviews of the competition with the crtc Sept. 3….
Atlantic fest to focus on North Atlantic Rim
Close to 200 Atlantic, Canadian and international titles are programmed for the 16th annual Atlantic Film Festival and executive director Robin Johnston hopes to meet, or even beat, the success of last year’s event. Attendance for the 1995 festival was up…
TIFF buyers focus on ancillary markets
With u.s. and other foreign buyers descending on Toronto for the 21st annual Toronto International Film Festival, the contents of their wish lists are all over the map, ranging from indie art films to thrillers and action/adventure….
Journal
– CFP gets mo’ money…
Editorial: Beyond the chosen analog few, it’s hard to say who won and lost
Those afraid of serious commitments (of the Cancon kind) need not apply – for guaranteed analog distribution that is. That was the verdict that outweighed, yet didn’t countermand, the consumer-appeal Q element….
Ruling could raise rights costs
With its long-term debt coming due this month, WIC Western International Communications is facing the banks with greater confidence following the approval of its pitch for extended Ontario distribution….
WFF jury picks U.K. drama
Montreal: Richard Spence’s Different for Girls, a witty British relationship drama about male friends who become male and female friends, has won the Grand Prix des Ameriques, top prize in competition at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival….
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