Quebec creates its own film and television council

MONTREAL - At a special founding assembly last week, Quebec's movie and TV industry formally created the Quebec Film and Television Council (QFTC). Some 120 members of the industry were in attendance to adopt the office's statutes and regulations and elect its first 11-member board. The QFTC's mission is to attract foreign shootings to Quebec and to ‘carry out high-value projects for the optimal development and competitiveness of the film and television industry” in the province, says the release. The new association grew out of the Forum métropolitain de l'industrie cinématographique, which was held on November 29, 2004, presided over...