BANFF TV FEST: CBC, Telefilm join forces for docs

BANFF - CBC Television has joined Telefilm Canada in a $2 million pilot project to help get feature documentaries in Canadian theatres and on Canadian television. CBC and Telefilm announced the project at the Banff World Television Festival this week. For years, feature docs could not be funded through Telefilm's Canada Feature Film Fund and were hard to program on TV because they need more than the usual one-hour slot. The pilot project, responding in part to the recent box office success of such doc-style movies as The Corporation, Fahrenheit 9/11, Super Size Me and Bowling for Columbine, aims to...