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Byline: GUY DIXON FILM Documentary-makers are used to working outside the system. Now more than ever, many of them contend, the system for funding documentaries is working against them. As [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON In addition to the unveiling this week of its newly renovated home at Toronto's Bloor Cinema and the upcoming announcement of the lineup for its spring festival, [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON BROADCASTING CBC's management unveiled a broad five-year plan on Tuesday to increase its local and regional news, make its prime-time TV lineup more Canadian and enlarge its [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON FILM / THE FUTURE The young women snarl and sneer and do battle like street fighters, if stylized ones in blue lipstick and black leggings. Behind them [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon THE BUZZ Toronto -- A group of local residents has filed a legal injunction to try to stop the CBC from discontinuing its French-language local radio news [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON AND JAMES BRADSHAW The federal Heritage Minister says he'd consider allowing advertising on CBC Radio to help the broadcaster deal with revenue issues, but the CBC itself [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- A new documentary by filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal called Act of God, about being struck by lightning, is among the project receiving grant money from the [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- The Montreal Jazz Festival has announced that the Quebec government is pitching in $10-million of the $15-million cost for the festival's permanent public showcase building [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON First, the bad news. The National Film Board of Canada recently eliminated 30 jobs. Some were layoffs, some were achieved through attrition and a hiring freeze, cutting [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON Actor/writer/director Paul Gross's $20-million, First World War epic Passchendaele had been touted as the front runner to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival's opening-night gala in [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON A woman, walking past a Regent Park housing project due for demolition, stopped at the sight of Fathima Fahmy standing two storeys tall. 'Look at her eyes,' [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- As part of its funding plans for the 2008-09 fiscal year starting April 1, the Canada Council for the Arts announced that it will give [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- The Actors' Fund of Canada is expected to see the worst year ever for actors and film and television technicians seeking emergency financial support from [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra ended its 2006-07 financial year on a positive note again with a surplus in revenue of $131,000, orchestra administrators reported yesterday. [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Arts philanthropists and long-time supporters of Canada's National Ballet School in Toronto, Joan and Jerry Lozinski have pledged $3-million to the school's Project Grand Jete, a $100-million [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- Jerry and Joan Lozinski, arts philanthropists and long-time ballet supporters, have made donations worth millions to Canadian ballet institutions. The Lozinskis are giving $1-million to [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON The chair of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television could not help ending the announcement of the Genie Award nominees on a down note. Just as [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Ryan Larkin is back making films. One of Canada's greatest animators -- a protege of Norman McLaren no less, at the National Film Board of Canada in [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON The headhunters have been hunting, the selection committee selecting. Now all that's needed is for the Heritage Department to hurry up and pick a new commissioner for [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- The contemporary-arts magazine Parachute will stop publishing with its January issue. Despite a strong increase in sales since its redesign in 2000, a steady decrease [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON Riffing off their old crowd-pleaser If I Had $1000000, the Barenaked Ladies and the band's management at Nettwerk Music Group sent out a press release the other [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- The levy on blank CDs should be kept at its current level, and reinstating levies on iPods and MP3 players wouldn't be possible unless Ottawa [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON Kenneth Thomson had a simple system for bidding on major works of art. He and his advisers gave a number from 1 to 10 to a particular [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON A Bay Street investment executive and his wife have made a surprise $1-million donation to Stratford Festival's education department, helping to support programs for teachers, actors and [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon For employees of a public broadcaster so strapped for cash, CBC correspondents have been getting around a lot lately. Peter Mansbridge seems to be everywhere but home [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON Terry McBride, who runs the music conglomerate that manages Avril Lavigne, the Barenaked Ladies and other big acts, may not be making as many enemies in the [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- The Festival du nouveau cinema has let the deadline for the troubled New Montreal FilmFest's merger plans come and go without a word. In late [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON The Montreal film community is on edge this weekend. It is waiting to hear whether the troubled New Montreal FilmFest, which lost hundreds of thousands of dollars [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- The New Montreal FilmFest -- which lost $850,000 in its first year last fall, according to sponsor Telefilm Canada -- has until Sunday to persuade [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon Toronto -- Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company said it now has $10.7-million of the $12-million it was hoping to raise for its new performance and training facilities, named [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON The Royal Conservatory of Music has raised $60-million for a new Toronto performance and teaching centre one year ahead of schedule, although construction will conversely finish later [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON Toronto's stage adaptation of The Lord of the Rings will not only transform the entire inside of the Princess of Wales Theatre into Middle-Earth, but it is [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON An academic at McGill University has a simple plan to stop the plague of unauthorized music downloads on the Internet. But it entails changing the entire music [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON The Ontario government is pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into promoting the Shaw and Stratford festivals locally and in the United States, as the theatre companies [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON Telefilm take note: An investment firm is raising money to finance movie projects by letting film buffs buy a piece of Ethan Hawke, or at least a [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON It will likely go down as one of Madonna's biggest missteps. When downloaders tried to get a free copy of her latest record off the Internet, many [...]

The future of venerable Aspirin maker Bayer AG appeared in critical condition yesterday after the pharmaceutical giant recalled its cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol, following reports of patient deaths. Severe and at [...]