CMPA PRIME TIME: Starlight pitch recalls timeworn Canadian film debate

By Susan Tolusso

OTTAWA – Canadian Media Production Association past-president Norm Bolen focused the final presentation at Prime Time in Ottawa 2013 on the presence - or lack - of Canadian feature films on Canadian TV. It's the theme underpinning the application he and a team of production industry heavyweights will present to the CRTC on April 23 in support of Starlight, The Canadian Movie Channel. It's a subject many convention delegates have heard and debated numerous times before, spanning decades for some. On the event's first day, Starlight backers and veteran production executives Robert Lantos and Victor Loewy slammed Canadian broadcasters for doing...