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Shum’s career sweepstakes pay off
Few Canadian parents are elated when their child decides on a career in the movie business. Mina Shum’s certainly weren’t. They fled China for Hong Kong then immigrated to Canada in search of a better life for their children – university…
The 1994 Genie nominees
In late September, 160 of Canada’s leading film industry pros gathered in Toronto for a three-day, bring-on-the-Visine movie marathon to determine this year’s Genie Award nominees. Fifty-nine films (36 features and 23 documentaries and shorts) were entered into competition this year….
MIPCOM:
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Cinar Films and Sony Music Canada are partners in a five-year label deal to distribute kids’ tv product in video and audio formats. This month, A Bunch of Munsch and The Busy World of Richard Scarry videos ($14.95) hit 1,000-plus retail…
Union takes legal
action against Bolt…
CBC
squeezed…
McCabe:
CRTC must…
Film Works sees
strength in numbers…
Blanche Gemeaux leading lady
Montreal: There were few surprises at this year’s Prix Gemeaux, with the Cite-Amerique historical drama Blanche winning seven awards, including best dramatic series, and Productions Sovimage/Productions Sagittaire’s courtroom drama Les Grands proces garnering four….
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alliance Communications has joined the music publishing business with its purchase of Toronto-based Partisan Music Productions. The film and tv distributor/producer struck a partnership deal with Vancouver’s A&F Music, a full-service music agency and management company, whereby a&f gets 25% of…
News Briefs
DeNure, Zayed step up…
It’s a whole new game
While the arrival of big-budget video game filmmaking to Canada may have come as a surprise to the Canadian public, film producers here have been aware of the game for some time….
Info highway
Cancon…
Proposed classification system
Sask. minister’s…
Welcome to CyberCity
‘I can design a funhouse that’s so much fun that I can charge people to visit it on-line and I’ll make my living by sitting there and elaborating on it each day.’ – Will Wright, creator SimCity…
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