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Casters fight for Van. niche
Vancouver: Cards are on the table for a new Vancouver broadcasting service, with Baton Broadcasting offering up a most generous application sweetener of $20 million per year on at least two primetime Canadian drama series, if it finds itself the chosen…
Specialties’ show plans
Already feeling program supply pools dwindling, Canada’s latest batch of specialty services are heading into their second broadcast year confident independent production won’t feel the impact of a pending change in licence conditions which could mean less money in the crtc-regulated…
Maddin’s madness
‘Some of the stuff is very gently peculiar, so the overall feeling of this movie is a bit like being on lithium or something. You feel like giggling every now and then.’…
At Press Time
Toronto’s Spot Film and Video lab has officially closed its doors after being in receivership since 1994. Receiver Marvin Zweig is currently selling the facility’s equipment, and says there are interested parties….
Classification: AGVOT seeks more time
With the calendar lurching towards the September deadline for a Canada-generated program classification system, all is reportedly not tranquil on the v-chip front….
Ark Pictures offering $10 million kitty
Transplanted Canuck producer Joel Roodman, together with production partners in New York, has announced the creation of a $10 million funding pool available to independent feature filmmakers….
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Editorial: What’s wrong with this picture?
Studios are busy, camera package suppliers are busy, production service companies are busy, and all are making investments to enable their businesses to grow and hopefully prosper. Where’s the traditional Canadian doom and gloom?…
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WFF unveils program
Montreal: Twenty-one feature films from around the world have been selected to compete for the Grand Prix des Ameriques at the 20th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival, Aug. 22 to Sept. 2….
Global Vision to compete in high-end transfer
Montreal: Post-producer and transcoder Global Vision is expanding in a major way with the acquisition of a Philips FDL Quadra film-to-tape transfer unit….
Toronto film festival gears up
With less than three weeks until the 21st Toronto International Film Festival takes off, the international buy-and-sell brass scheduled to man the sales office at the Rogers Industry Centre guarantees producers and distributors will be tiff-bound with more than just flick-feasting…
Numbers: Olympic victory for CBC
On the other side of its $30 million investment in 1996 Summer Olympics rights, the cbc, boosted by the International Olympics Committee’s new rules, scored ratings gold for the two weeks through Aug. 4 with eyeballs consistently eclipsing ctv’s ’94 Barcelona…
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