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Trade Forum wrap-up
Vancouver: While there was no year-over-year change in the number of delegates attending Vancouver’s 10th Annual Film and Television Trade Forum, there was a distinct shift in their geographical origins, says event producer Melanie Friesen….
$37.6M goes to 44 new projects
Telefilm Canada has signed deal letters and contracts for 44 new film and tv production projects in the period Aug. 1 to Sept. 30. The total investment is $37.6 million with a breakdown as follows: $21 million to 22 English-language tv…
Telefilm holds to festival cuts
Montreal: Despite vigorous protests from a coalition of Quebec film festivals and other Canadian festivals, Telefilm Canada has reconfirmed a decision to withdraw funding for 10 festivals over a three-year period….
Volatile backdrop for CAB confab
In the shadow of the Referendum and the direct-to-home satellite hearings, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Annual Convention takes off Oct. 28….
Whatever happened to pay-TV?
Robert Armstrong is a broadcasting and film consultant based in Montreal….
Storyboards: B-movies and B-ball
The CN Tower can withstand a dinosaur attack….
Spot shop taps into the new media
In June, Johns + Gorman Films, a California-based commercial production house, marked its 10th anniversary by opening a new-media division. Its first project, an Internet site for Swatch, went online at the end of August in 43 nations and in 25…
Commercial Directions: Busy month for McNally
Coming up this week at The Players Film Company, director David McNally will be shooting a day with dop Joe Pender for Vidal Sassoon through Tatham euro rscg and two days with dop David Franco for the Ontario Lottery Corporation through…
Word on the Street: Logevall defects to Jolly Roger
Director Robert Logevall has left Kessler Irish Films to join Steve Chase and Curtis Wehrfritz on the Jolly Roger roster….
News Brief: NFB doc chronicles life of cinema’s `first’ lady
In recognition of the one hundredth anniversary of cinema, the National Film Board has unearthed the lost history of Alice Guy-Blache. The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blache, a new documentary about the first female filmmaker directed by…
B.C. Scene: Znaimer offers tantalizing tidbits at Film and TV Trade Forum
Vancouver: Mr. Citytv, Moses Znaimer, blew into town to kick off the 10th annual Film and Television Trade Forum as the opening luncheon speaker and to drum up support from the local production community for his bid for a fourth Vancouver…
Quebec Scene: CFP launches new slate with Mihalka comedy l’Homme Ideal
Montreal: Revamped and ready for action, Cinepix Film Properties plans to shoot eight to 10 made-for-tv and feature films, including European coproductions, in the next year or so. According to producer Christian Larouche, cfp’s projects will be in the $2.5 million…
Ontario Scene: Yake and Murphy gear up for first round two CFC feature film
Number one for round two of the Canadian Film Centre’s Feature Film Project goes to camera in Toronto Nov. 13 for 20 days. The untitled project, made by The Feeler team of producer Elizabeth Yake and director Colleen Murphy, is a…
News Brief: Call for scripts
Jenfilms, in association with Vision tv, is looking for 30-minute telescripts for the series Inside Stories III….
Network: G, those effects are scary!
Xtreme Graphix is planning to raise some hairs with its opening sequence for Goosebumps, premiering Halloween weekend on ytv. The one-minute sequence uses a mysterious, computer-animated ‘g’ traveling across different landscapes and suburban scenes wreaking paranormality as it goes….
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