Onsite at BAM (Bogotá Audiovisual Market) 2019, it’s clear that extensive investment in changing the country’s story culturally and economically through benefits and business opportunities is certainly stimulating the film and television
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Since the creation of the Vancouver and Montreal based studios, interactive works and VR have taken off and the Board has expanded production in new media across the country.
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Is Super Channel up to its old tricks again? If Super Channel doesn’t have the foresight to cash-flow their own business, and if they can’t honour their deals, they shouldn’t have a
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