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Troubled Canadian producer-distributor Cinar Corp has filed lawsuits against several Bahamas-based investment companies in an attempt to recoup $76m in missing funds.Cinar s co-founders, Micheline Charest and Ronald Weinberg resigned from their roles as co-CEOs earlier this month over an alleged $122m in unauthorised corporate bond purchases made by executive vice-president Hasanain Panju, who was subsequently fired Screendaily March 8 . Cinar has recovered some of the $122m but $76m is still unaccounted for.Among the offshore financial outfits that Cinar is suing is Globe-X Management which is understood to have held $122m in invest stanley cup ment grade securities on behalf of Cinar.Meanwhile it has emerged that Canadian funding body Telefilm Canada, which recently ceased all business activities with Cinar, received warnings as far back as 1993 that the com stanley cup pany might be attaching Canadian names to scripts written by Americans to gain Canadian tax credits.A Cinar scriptwriter sent several letters to Telefilm in 1993, complaining about illegitimate use of American writers names stanley cup for Canadian co-productions.Telefilm, which is now working with the police investigation into Cinar, contributed $3.2m to the company in 1998 and $6m in 1997. Cinar received government tax credits in 1998 to the tune of 14.2% of its fiscal revenue. No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. Ckwi IMAX signs cinema pact with Austria s Cineplexx Kinobetriebe
Interviewed in the Wardour Street offices of his company Sixteen Films on a damp June morning, Loach is s stanley cup till clearly delighted at having won his second Palme dOr last month for I, Daniel Blake. Its quite a modest little film, really, that obviously you hope touches people, Loach says. The first thought is for all the people who helped you make it. If you wer stanley us e a football team winning the championship, everybody would get a medal but in films, the director has to stanley cup go up. Obviously, it [the Palme dOr] is for the whole team. Loach adds that the award will help distributors attract audiences. Another crucial point, from his perspective, is that the Cannes jury endorsed the basic premise of the film 鈥?that the most vulnerable people in society are being humiliated, impoverished and being put through terrible hardship in a very cruel way. Thats happening throughout Europe .I, Daniel Blake explores the plight of a Newcastle carpenter Dave Johns and a single mother Hayley Squires reliant on benefits, both of whom have to choose between eating and stay- ing warm . They are pawns caught up in what Loach calls the catastrophic neo-liberal austerity project that has affected thousands across Europe. All we can do is tell one little story, drop a pebble in the pond and hopes that the ripples spread out, he says.As Versus reminds us, when Loachs TV drama Cathy Come Home was broadcast on the BBC in 1966, it was watched by millions and prompted a nationwide debate about homelessnes