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Fall TV fare
Spooks, spin-offs and a more defined role for the cbc mark this season’s launch of the 1996/97 network tv schedules….
Banff fest: Rockie Mtn. highs
Banff, Alta: As usual at the Banff Television Festival, about the only ones working up a tangible stress level are the independent producers. Busy pitching, schmoozing and generally making merry with the broadcasters and funding agencies that can kick projects from…
At Press Time
Montreal: Tele-Metropole’s foreign export division, TVA International, has been mandated to ‘develop new revenue sources for a/v products in the international marketplace,’ says head Francois St-Laurent….
Video Innovations: Writing software aids the muse
INT. Night. G. lies splayed across the threadbare carpet of the self-consciously low-rent apartment he always thought would be a perfect tabloid tv testament to his mean-street days after he made it big. As the contents of his tragically uninspired and…
Videotron offers `guarantees’ to producers
Montreal: Cutbacks in public broadcasting and concentration in the private sector were top-of-mind issues at this year’s apftq convention, held in Quebec City May 31 to June 2….
Video Innovations: The Quebec post picture: People, places and things on the Montreal post scene
The busy post scene in Quebec (see story p. VI-10) may get shaken up with the Videotron takeover of CFCF Inc….
SDA, Ellipse sign major TV drama pact
Montreal: Productions sda and Ellipse Fiction, a division of Ellipse Programme, France’s largest private producer and a subsidiary of Canal+, have announced a two-year, $23 million coproduction agreement….
News Brief: NSFDC first-quarter #s
The Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation approved project funding of $1.4 million for the first quarter of fiscal 1996/97. This is its largest round of funding to date….
News Brief: Cinar goes to market
Cinar Films, Montreal, has filed with the u.s. Securities and Exchange Commission stating its intention to sell up to 2.2 million subordinate voting shares….
News Brief: Alliance expansion
Alliance has opened a new division to handle its worldwide motion picture distribution activities. Alliance Pictures International will handle pictures in the $10-$25 million range and specialize in upscale commercial movies generated through in-house packaging and production by Alliance Pictures as…
Video Innovations: Command Post gets new Henrys: Toronto post house in expansion mode
Three Henrys, no waiting. That’s going to be the mantra at Command Post from now on….
Editorial
Short films have a better chance at commercial success in 1996 than they’ve ever had. But it’s still a long shot. And that’s a shame….
News Brief: Bremner quits BCTV
Within a week of being named b.c.’s broadcaster of the year, Ron Bremner announced his departure from the president’s office at bctv to take the top job at the Calgary Flames hockey franchise….
Barlee squeaked out in B.C. election
Vancouver: Provincial ndp politician Bill Barlee, whose ministerial responsibilities extended to the film industry, was narrowly defeated in the aftermath of the ndp’s slim majority victory in the May 28 b.c. election….
Video Innovations: Interactivities: DVD: reshaping entertainment
Dr. Panos Nasiopoulos is director, research and development at Vancouver’s Rainmaker Digital Pictures and adjunct professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of British Columbia….
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