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Binchmarks: The Internet and the law: `flame wars’ in cyberspace – libel rules
Simon Chester is the partner in charge of research and a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch. This article was prepared with the assistance of Lauralee Bielert….
The future of independent production
Robert Armstrong is a broadcasting and film consultant based in Montreal….
Special Report: Vancouver International Film Festival: VIFF celebrates a century of cinema
With suitable disregard for the expected, organizers of the Vancouver International Film Festival are kicking off the event this year with a piece of work known to few patrons, even those among the film cognoscenti. Lonesome, a 1928 film by Hungarian…
Special Report: Vancouver International Film Festival: Trade Forum studies national cinema
Melanie Friesen, producer of the 10th annual Film and Television Trade Forum Oct. 5-7, says the event speaks to the current issues facing filmmakers in b.c. and around the world. The goal, she says, is to applaud both the local film…
Special Report: Vancouver International Film Festival: Shorts selection sophisticated, eclectic
After viewing an eye-glazing 198 short films, Alison Vermee still says programming shorts is one of the most rewarding aspects of her job as Canadian Images programmer at the Vancouver International Film Festival….
Special Report: Vancouver International Film Festival: More production, less money
Immaculate white trailers lining city streets, denim-clad pas in artfully torn t-shirts and baseball caps brandishing walkie-talkies, barricades blocking parking stalls, and cops wolfing down donuts. Yes, the telltale signs of a film in progress still abound in Vancouver….
Special Report: Production in Vancouver:
One man’s poison can be another man’s tonic. And so it goes in the business of producing film and television in Canada, where one province’s shortcomings have proven to be another territory’s advantage….
Special Report: Vancouver International Film Festival: The ever-present search for cash
A lonely voice in the rain forest, British Columbia producer Harold Tichenor says the future of film financing here remains promising, despite the current flux of government tax credit and incentive programs….
Telefilm streamlines
Montreal: Telefilm Canada has reorganized its production and development branch into a streamlined operations branch with integrated core business units managing features and television projects in each of its principal Canadian offices….
On the set with Swann
Miranda Richardson sits at the bar of the dimly lit, tediously named Postcards lounge in Toronto’s Sheraton Centre hotel, and slowly, deliberately, drops a sugar cube into her coffee. She wears a faraway look that suggests she wouldn’t notice if the…
Shostak, Rossner start up company
Montreal: Industry veterans Murray Shostak and Danny Rossner have formed Shostak/ Rossner Productions, a content and non-content producer of feature films, tv series and mows. The company conservatively estimates its 1995/96 production slate will be in the $20 million range….
Snags continue to plague DTH
Almost a year to the day since the crtc passed an exemption order to speed up the launch of Canadian direct-to-home services, the industry faces technical and regulatory roadblocks that will hold up competition until mid-1996….
At Press Time
Montreal producer Richard Sadler of Films Stock International and Daniel Toscan du Plantier of France’s Erato Films have announced an agreement to coproduce a $15 million feature film adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novella Typhoon. Negotiations are underway with actor Donald…
ACTRA, CFTPA talks: Last-ditch effort to avoid strike
Canada’s production industry is in danger of losing nearly $200 million worth of service production while negotiations between actra’s Performers Guild and the Canadian Film and Television Production Association continue. So says Nick Counter, president of the u.s. Alliance of Motion…
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