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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…
Storyboards: Powerful PSA without graphic scare tactics
Ring around the rosie…
Telefilm pares back at Vancouver office
Vancouver: The Vancouver office of Telefilm Canada has eliminated three jobs to address the parliamentary demand for budget cuts. Gone are Gretchen Doyle and Janet Bowell, who were involved in the feature film investment program, and project co-ordinator Colleen Macdonald….
Ontario Scene: Toronto production up 15% to $190 million for first half of ’96
Toronto production levels, according to the number-crunchers at the Toronto Film and Television Office, were up slightly in the first half of 1996. There were 61 productions (excluding music videos) in the period from January to June, up from 59 in…
B.C. Scene: Omni Films makes more out of Wild idea – doc goes to series
Vancouver: The first documentary to ever post a profit for British Columbia Film is evolving into a series. The award-winning nature special Killer Whales of the Wild, shot in 1989 and bought by National Geographic, earned in the ‘mid five-figures’ for…
Quebec Scene: InformAction’s 25 years on documentaries’ front lines
Montreal: Now in its 25th year, international documentary producer InformAction has a wide slate of productions on the go, including In Search of Tarzan, Rwanda-Burundi: The Roots of Hope and Mystere B, a portrait of little-known Quebec surrealist painter Marcel Baril….
Prods split on Alberta licence
Calgary, Alta.: Producers big and small gathered for ringside seats at the Alberta hearings mid-month to debate microcosm versus macrocosm….
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