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Binchmarks: A seven-step program to avoid destroying your own trademark
(Diana Cafazzo and Alice-Anne Morlock are lawyers at the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch and members of the firm’s KNOWlaw Group.)…
B.C. Scene: Tiff spells end of Vancouver-produced Hard Core Logo at TIFF
Vancouver: A disagreement between the distributor of Hard Core Logo and the Toronto International Film Festival means the Vancouver-produced feature will not play to t.o. festival goers. Details are sketchy, but the issue revolves around Everest Releasing’s decision to decline an…
Ontario Scene: Fireworks’ La Femme Nikita TV series set to roll this fall
Fireworks will launch production on 13 one-hour episodes of La Femme Nikita in Toronto on Oct. 7. The series, which is being produced for ctv and USA Network, will star Australian Peta Wilson as Nikita, Roy Dupuis as Michael and Alberta…
Production in Quebec: Producers discover `Montreal edge’
Film and television production is driving towards record levels in Montreal in 1996, with the apftq producers association projecting indie production at over $400 million, up from last year’s $370 million….
Production in Quebec: More action in ’96
Selected 1996 domestic and location Montreal production highlights include:…
Production in Quebec: Que. producers drive Canadian coproduction
Canadians are among the most experienced coproducers in the world, with Montreal-based companies at the heart of the action year in, year out. It’s big business, with well over $1 billion worth of film and tv projects coproduced with Canadian partners…
Montreal World Film Festival: Celebrating twenty years of international film
For its first 20 years the Montreal World Film Festival (Aug. 22 to Sept. 2) has been dedicated to telling the full story of international cinemas, sold and unsold, and with 318 films from 60 countries on the program, the 1996…
Montreal World Film Festival: News Brief: New Rudolph film arrives in Montreal
Director Alan Rudolph (The Moderns, Mrs. Parker & The Vicious Circle) is in Montreal prepping on After Glow, a 34-day feature film shoot produced by Robert Altman….
Prairie Production: Alberta, Manitoba & Saskatchewan: Production boom times
Canada’s west has long been an attraction and a challenge for filmmakers since 1919 when Alberta’s Lesser Slave Lake provided the beautifully cruel backdrop for Nell Shipman’s Back to God’s Country, and the bitter climate proved too much for even a…
Prairie Production: Alberta, Manitoba & Saskatchewan: Production, persuasion plus politicking for Prairie producers
Once again Prairie producers are, in the words of one member of their ranks, ‘busy as beavers’ this summer, and not only with a complement of major projects. Each with its own mandate, the Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba industries are also…
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….
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