Ottawa is getting ready to invest $125 million over five years for the Canadian arts by increasing existing budgets for domestic programs, expanding the eligible sectors that can receive money and by helping artists export their work internationally, Heritage Minister...
Telefilm Canada, the federally funded agency that distributes about $100-million annually in support of this country’s film industry, has appointed the head of a digital industry lobby group to be its next executive director. Christa Dickenson, the president and chief...
Sony Pictures’ free streaming video platform Crackle is packing up its Hollywood entertainment and leaving Canada. The ad-supported service posted a notice on its website saying that starting Thursday it will no longer offer its library of older movies and TV shows to...
SMPIA member Melcher Media partnered with the RCMP Heritage Centre in Regina to create the new RCMP Sergeant Major’s Inspection Hololens Exhibit. Guests experience what it’s like for a cadet to have their quarters inspected — incorporating holograms and...
SMPIA member Dawn Bird will produce Q, a BC-Saskatchewan coproduction to be shot in Saskatchewan. Q is one of 38 feature films selected along with seven narrative web projects as part of the initiative formerly known as the Micro-Budget Production Programme. The film...
