Now Showing IP-SIG: Selected Film and TV Internet Resources

Document address (URL): http://victoria.tc.ca/Recreation/Film-TV/film-tv.html

Month of September 2002

This Web page on the Victoria Telecommunity Network, British Columbia, Canada, is part of the Now Showing IP-SIG maintained by David Mattison.

NOTE: Due to the increasing number of new films with their own Web sites, this menu will no longer list individual film titles. Use the Internet Movies Database listed below or any of these search engines to locate film titles.

As of November 15, 1995, the focus of this page will shift to Canadian film and TV resources, as well as directories or meta-sites relating to film and TV. WARNING: The contents of some pages may offend viewers with or without graphical Web browsers.

This page is optimized for viewing with any browser.

CANADIAN FILM AND TV RESOURCES

• Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television: home of the Gemini and Genie Awards
• Advertising Standards Canada
• Alberni-Clayoquot Regional Film Commission
• Alliance Atlantis Communications, Inc.
• Alliance for Canada's Audio-Visual Heritage
• Antimatter: Festival of Underground Short Film and Video, September 20 to 28, 2002, Open Space Arts Centre, Victoria, BC. Web site includes program archives back to 1998.
• Banff Television Festival Online
• British Columbia Film (Vancouver) was established in 1987 as a non-profit society to administer government funding of film and video productions
• British Columbia Film Commission promotes BC as a film production destination.
• British Columbia Motion Picture Association
• Cable Television Standards Council (CTSC)
• Campbell River Film and Broadcast Commission (BC)
• Canadian Association of Broadcasters
• Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC, Canadian Association of Broadcasters)
• Canadian College of Film & Acting (Victoria, BC)
• Canadian College of Performing Arts (Victoria, BC)
• Canadian Film Centre
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• Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (Toronto, ON) includes an online catalogue
• Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
• Cinecenta Films (University of Victoria) operates a 300-seat theatre and is open seven nights a week. Admission is based on either membership or non-member pricing.
• Cinevic, Society of Independent Filmmakers hosts the annual Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival
• "Coming Attractions" by Corona (Vancouver, BC)
• Comox Valley Film Commission (Courtenay, BC)
• Film, Video & Media in British Columbia, Canada (Maintained by the Sooke Film Society)
• Film, Video & New Media Festival, 4 to 6 August 2001, Sooke, BC (Sooke Film Society)
• FilmCAN: Movie Showtimes
• Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
• Greater Victoria Film Commission
• Gumboot Productions (Victoria, BC)
• The Jesuit Communication Project (Toronto, ON) promotes media education and awareness
• Media Awareness Network
• Montreal World Film Festival (Festival des films du monde)
• MovieCamp (National Screen Institute) offers summer moviemaking camps for teenagers (13-19 year olds) in several Canadian cities.
• MyBC Movies (MyBC.com) includes show times for theatres around the province
• MZTV Museum of Television (Toronto, ON)
• National Film Board of Canada
• National Screen Institute-Canada (Edmonton, AB, and Winnipeg, MB) sponors a MovieCamp and offers continuing education opportunities for TV and filmmakers.
• Okanagan Film Commission, British Columbia
• Ottawa International Animation Festival
• Powell River Regional Film Commission (BC)
• Radio and Television News Directors Association of Canada (RTNDA)
• Reel West Internet (Reel West Productions, Inc., Burnaby, BC)
• Screen Trade Canada: Canadian film and television news (National Screen Institute-Canada)
• Sooke Film Society (BC)
• Specialty and Premium Television Association (SPTV)
• Sprockets: Toronto International Film Festival for Children
• Sullivan Entertainment Production: learn more about Kevin Sullivan's film and tv productions such as Road to Avonlea and Wind At My Back
• Telecaster Committee of Canada
• Telefilm Canada, a Federal funding agency, also documents film/video productions and the industry through a searchable Directory.
• Thompson-Nicola Film Commission
• Toronto International Film Festival Group
• Tribute.ca is from the publishers of Tribute,Campus Reel, Kids Tribute, and Teen Tribute
• Vancouver International Film Festival (BC)
• Vancouver Island Film Association (VIFA)
• VancouverProductions.com (MediaWorks Creative Group, Inc.) bills itself as "Your Production Reference in Hollywood North".
• Victoria Film Producers Association (VIPA)
• Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, (Cinevic, Society of Independent Filmmakers). Past years' Web sites are also available from the upcoming festival site.
• Victoria Motion Picture School Ltd. (BC)
• youthfilms.com, home of the Gulf Islands Film and Television School (Galiano Island, BC)

PERIODICALS ABOUT FILM AND TV

• Broadcast Dialogue
• Canadian Journal of Film Studies (Film Studies Association of Canada)
• ETRnews: Canada's National Communication Journal
• Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media (University of Waterloo, ON)
• Tribute

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TV VIEWING GUIDES

• ClickTV (A Service of TVData)
• LocalTV Net (Foo Software Inc., Victoria, BC)
• TV Guide Live
• TV Times Online (Canada.com)
• What's On Tonight from Ultimate TV (TV Net Inc.)

For individual station or network program guides, refer to the broadcast stations list below

Jump to Periodicals About Film and TV

TELEVISION (ESPECIALLY BROADCAST STATIONS RECEIVED IN THE GREATER VICTORIA REGION)

• A&E Television (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #31)
• A Channel Stations (Craig Broadcast Systems Inc.)
• ABC Network
• BC CTV (formerly VT Interactive: Vancouver Television [VTV], CIVT) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #9)
• BCTV see Global BC
• Bravo! (CHUM TV) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #25)
• Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC Online) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #78)
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC/SRC) (Radio & TV) -- for CBC TV only (TV: Shaw Cable, Victoria, #2)
• CBC Newsworld (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #20)
• CBS Network
• CBS News
• CH TV (formerly CHEK TV; as of September 1, 2001, part of Global TV) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #6)
• CHBC Okanagan
• CHUM Television
• Citytv (Toronto, ON) (CHUM TV)
• CIVI, The New VI (CHUM TV) (As of October 4, 2001, Shaw Cable, Victoria #12)
• CKVU (CHUM TV) (formerly Global) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #13)
• CMT (Country Music Television) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #35)
• CNBC Business News (Fort Lee, NJ) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #29)
• CNN Interactive (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #33)
• Comedy Network (CHUM TV) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #41)
• CTV Television Network
• Discovery Channel Canada (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #27)
• Family Channel (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #39)
• Food Network (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #43)
• Fox World (Fox Broadcasting Co.) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #15)
• Global BC (formerly BCTV; as of September 1, 2001, part of Global TV) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #8)
• The Golf Channel (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #47)
• Home and Garden Television (HGTV) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #42)
• ITV (Edmonton, AB)
• Global TV
• KCPQ/Q13, Seattle (Fox) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #15)
• KCTS Seattle (PBS) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #7)
• KING 5 Television, Seattle (NBC) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #18)
• KIRO TV, Seattle (CBS) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #21)
• Knowledge Network (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #4)
• KOMO 4 (ABC) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #16)
• KSTW, Seattle/Tacoma (UPN) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #14)
• KTLA Los Angeles Superstation (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #60)
• KVOS 12, Bellingham (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #12)
• The Learning Channel (TLC) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #37)
• Life Network (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #26)
• Much More Music (CHUM TV) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #70)
• Much Music (CHUM TV) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #51)
• NBC Network
• The New VI (CHUM TV, Victoria) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #12)
• Outdoor Life Network Canada (CTV) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #44)
• PBS Online
• Playboy TV (Shaw Digital Cable, Victoria, #87)
• Radio-Canada Colombie-Britannique (CBC/SRC et le Réseau de l'information [RDI]) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #3 and 69)
• Rogers Communications Inc. (including Rogers Cablesystems)
• Shaw Communications Inc. (including Shaw Cable)
• Showcase Online (Showcase Channel, Shaw Cable, Victoria, #28)
• The Space Channel (CHUM TV) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #46)
• Speedvision Network (Stamford, CT) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #48)
• Star-TV (CHUM TV) (Shaw Digital Cable, Victoria)
• talktv (CTV) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #76 and Shaw Digital Cable #164)
• Teletoon (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #38)
• TBS Superstation (WTBS) (Atlanta, GA) (TBS) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #40)
• TNN, The National Network (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #30)
• TSC, The Shopping Channel (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #53)
• TSN: The Sports Channel Canada (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #5)
• Turner Broadcasting System (TBS)
• TVOntario (TVO)
• United Paramount Network (UPN)
• Vision TV (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #52)
• The Weather Network (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #23)
• WGN Chicago Superstation (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #61)
• WPIX New York Superstation (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #62)
• WSBK Boston Superstation (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #59)
• WTVS Detroit (PBS) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #24)
• YTV (YTV Canada Inc.) (Shaw Cable, Victoria, #22)

For BC AND NATIONAL BROADCAST TV PROGRAMS Refer To TV Viewing Guides

DIRECTORIES / META-SITES OF FILM AND TV RESOURCES

1. BigMovieZone.com is a guide to IMAX films shown around the world, including those at the National Geographic IMAX Theatre in the Royal BC Museum, Victoria
2. Christmas Movies (Victoria Telecommunity Network)
3. CineMedia (American Film Institute)
4. CineMedia (Australian Cinemedia Centre, Melbourne, Australia)
5. Clamen's Movie Information Collection (Carnegie Mellon University)
6. EINet/Tradewave Galaxy: Film and Video Page
7. Entertainment Technology Center (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
8. Girls on Film and TV (Oxygen Media, Inc.) is an online community with public reviews of film and TV
9. Hollywood Hyperlink{sm} Web Site Directory (The Hollywood Reporter)
10. The Hollywood Connection (Multilingual guide to business resources relating to the movie and TV industry)
11. Hollywood Online (Hollywood Online Inc.)
12. HollywoodNet.com claims to have insider tips for those wishing to break into the film industry; user-pay subscription service
13. IndieNetwork is home to independent film and video productions
14. Internet Movies Database is undoubtedly the best source for information about film and video worldwide
15. Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE) (Stewart M. Clamen) includes Canadian content
16. MovieWEB (movieweb.com)
17. Northwest TV Stations (Contributing Editor, Brian Lord)
18. Pseudo.com: Interactive TV on your computer
19. Screenwriters' and Playwrights' Home Page (Charles Deemer)
20. Search Tools, Indexes and Navigational Aids to the Internet/Web (Victoria Telecommunity Network)
21. Star Seekers Movies features weekly theatrical releases and sneak previews, as well as dozens of links to other specialized sites

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