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CFTPA Prime Time: Digging deeper into positive top line results shows system’s cracks


OTTAWA – With two major crises reaching public climaxes just before Canadian film, TV and new media producers gathered here for their annual Prime Time conference last week, the event could easily have become two long days’ journey into denouement. Instead, although frequent quips proved tensions still simmer following the ACTRA strike and the uncertain future for the Canadian Television Fund, PT’s agenda (which included a speech from new CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein) focused on improving industry performance amid some encouraging 2005-'06 news.Volume up The Canadian Film and Television Production Association’s annual Profile report says total production volume rose...