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CCTA funding projections
CCTA proposals for production contributions (cpf) based on a 2.5% tax and assuming 9% growth in revenues, goes up by 46% to $56 million in 1998, 74% in ’99 and 101% or $61 million in the year 2000 based on the…
OFDC orients plans to new market reality
While the Ontario Film Development Corporation continues working to establish the new Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit, plans are being laid for other initiatives supporting the agency’s new philosophy. Says ceo Alexandra Raffe: ‘We aren’t in a position to be…
B.C. prods push forward on tax credit
Vancouver: The proposed B.C. Refundable Investment Tax Credit offers local producers bonuses to spread production around the province and invest in job training, says the chair of an industry-led ad hoc committee struck this spring to oversee the initiative….
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Editorial: Let’s get on with it
Please, we (almost) beg: no extraneous crtc hearings on network licence criteria in the midst of what could be the most demanding regulatory year on record….
Clarification: Brenda Collins
Playback wishes to clarify that it has no reason to believe that the resignation of Brenda Collins as executive administrator of the bcmpa reported in a Journal item (July 15, p. 4 ‘Collins resigns’) is the result of a deficit of…
WFF hones niche edge
Montreal: Ten European film export and promotion organizations are among the high-profile guests slated to attend the 1996 Montreal International Film, TV & Video Market Aug. 22 to Sept. 2….
TIFF announces Perspective Canada
Perspective Canada programmers for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival have put together what they call the fest’s most startling and controversial Canadian series to date. The slate of 15 features, 27 shorts and one gala includes 10 directorial debuts and…
Unforscene soundtrack
Vancouver: A fledgling music company with two veteran backers is releasing three soundtrack albums between now and the end of September….
Crescent moves out of service production
Vancouver: Titanic is the last service production project Vancouver’s Crescent Entertainment will undertake, not because the ship is going down, but because the company is moving into 100% indigenous production….
Hitting The Screens: Suburbanators – distrib strategy
Vancouver: Tim Bishop, the Toronto-based director of operations at Everest Releasing, knows the value of a great story and engaging characters – not much….
Premiere Fant-Asia fest brings ghosts & gangstas
Montreal: Asian superstar Jackie Chan will present his new film Super Cop Aug. 11 at a Canadian prerelease premiere at the first Fant-Asia film festival, a showcase for Asia’s booming fantasy and action feature film industry….
News Brief: CBC cuts costs
CBC Vancouver is dropping its veteran weatherman Phil Reimer from its dinner-hour and late-night news after 19 years on the job….
Word on the Street: Jolly Roger West Coast venture flies
Jolly Roger has successfully ended a six-month search for a fourth Canadian director with the formation of a relationship with David Tennant of Vancouver’s Aviator Pictures and an extended affiliation with that West Coast company….
Commercial Directions: Olympian effort by Imported
Imported Artists’ director/dop Bob Purman shot four days for McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada through Cossette Communications, Toronto. David Baxter at Panic & Bob edited with the help of assistant Wendy Lanning. The 30 and two 60s feature music composed by Kerry…
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