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Alliance looking to boost program delivery interests
After a banner financial year, which saw total revenues increase by more than 100%, Alliance Communications is looking to expand its role in program delivery….
T.O. fest Symposium highlights
The Toronto International Film Festival’s Symposium, with 1,200 delegates, was an overall success, especially with the launch of an industry center and a series of meetings that took place throughout the 10-day film event….
La Fete widens distrib niche
Montreal: Distribution La Fete is actively pursuing worldwide rights to family feature films and programs and plans to manage the release of Productions La Fete Tales for All movies in theaters, says president Kevin Tierney….
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Malofilm inks two deals
Malofilm Distribution has signed Canadian home video distribution deals with Time-Life Video and Hallmark Home Entertainment….
Word on the Street: Hackett rejoins Partners’
Director Dan Hackett has flown back to The Partners’ Film Company….
Numbers: Weather net metered
The Weather Network and Meteomedia, a division of Toronto-based Pelmorex Communications, began publishing in the Nielsen weekly reports for the first time beginning Sept. 15….
DVLA reps Palomar
Derek Van Lint and Associates has inked a Canadian representation deal with l.a.-based production company Palomar Pictures….
Commercial Directions: `Explosion’ of work for D’Alessio
Things have been ‘exploding’ at Imported Artists this month. Director Richard D’Alessio and dop George Willis have a day for Bell Canada through Leo Burnett. Gillian McCarthy at Third Floor will edit. D’Alessio is also directing two days on location in…
News Briefs
– DiviCom has improved the quality, efficiency and flexibility of the MPEG-2 digital broadcast system it introduced a year ago. Among the enhancements to the encoder are an advanced video preprocessor, adaptive field frame coding, and repeat field detecti
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– Wendy MacKeigan, chairperson of the Foundation to Underwrite New Drama, has announced increased per project funding amounts available in fund’s Script Development Program. Maximum project funding has doubled from $25,000 to $50,000 and the amount availa
B.C. Scene: Doing the circuit: from East to West, it’s fest fest fest
Vancouver: Over-partied, underfunded filmmakers pulled themselves away from the last hors d’oeuvres table at the Toronto International Film Festival and headed back to Vancouver to begin another round of similar libations at the 14th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, running from…
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Investor sentiment: Are the pubcos making the grade?
Shawn Malcolm is an investment advisor in ScotiaMcLeod’s North Toronto Office….
News Brief
– ICE Integrated Communications and Entertainment has won the contract to produce the Ontario Film Development Corporation’s first World Wide Web site, to be sponsored by the ofdc and the Toronto Film and Television Office. The site, which goes online in.
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