The following is an alphabetical list of Canadian independent production companies and the feature film and television projects they produced in 2004

Projects in development - some of which went into production over the year - are also listed. The chart on p. 20 tracks the amount individual companies spent on production and development in 2004. Information was provided by the companies themselves in response to a Playback questionnaire.

Playback asked companies to submit information pertaining to only those projects in which they participated as a financial partner, and requested that, in the case of coproductions, companies report spending based on their portion of the budget. We stipulated that dollar figures reflect only spending attributed to the calendar year 2004.

Production companies were also asked to separately indicate the amount of service work they completed.

In some cases where companies chose not to respond, Playback estimated production volumes. There were occasions, however, when we could not do an estimate because of a lack of data. Some of these companies - which have been known to represent significant production volume, and which may have been mainly in development mode in 2004 - are omitted from the list.

Format code:

* Dramatic TV series (TV-S) * Variety series (TV-V) * Magazine/Lifestyle series (TV-ML) * Comedy series (TV-C) * Animation - adult series (TV-A) * Animation - children's series (A-CH) * Animation/live-action children's series (A/L-CH) * Live-action - children's (LA-CH) * Reality series (TV-R) * TV special - (SP) * Documentary one-off (DOC) * Documentary series (DOC-S) * Factual series (FAC-S) * TV movie (MOW) * Miniseries (MS) * TV series pilot (TV-P) * Theatrical - dramatic (T-DR) * Theatrical - documentary (T-DOC) * Theatrical - animated (T-A) * Short (SH) * Short - animated (SH-A) * Large format (LF)

100 Percent Film & Television
116 Spadina Avenue,
Suite 701,
Toronto, ON M5V 2K6
Tel. (416) 304-5225
Fax: (416) 304-1222
Email: info@onehundredpercent.ca
Website: www.onehundredpercent.ca
Company established: 2003
Key executives: Ken Finkleman, Jan Peter Meyboom, executive producers; Julia Dault, Scott McEwen, associate producers
Project produced in 2004:
* The Newsroom III (TV-C)
Projects developed in 2004:
* Hotel Metropolitan (TV-S) * No Cover (TV-V) * Leacockville (TV-S) * Assassination on Embassy Row (T-DR) * Black Bird (T-DR)
Independent volume: $3,300,000

90th Parallel Film & Television
203 Gerrard Street East,
Toronto, ON M5A 2E7
Tel. (416) 364-9090
Fax: (416) 364-0580
Email: susanne@90thparallel.ca
Website: www.90thparallel.ca
Company established: June 1987
Key executive: Gordon S. Henderson, president
Projects produced in 2004:
* The Biographer's Voice: Life & Times of Peter C. Newman (DOC) * The Hockey Nomad Goes to Russia (DOC) * John Kenneth Galbraith: The Abiding Liberal (DOC) * Balance: Television for Living Well II (DOC-S) * They Built the Railway (DOC-S) * Museum (DOC-S)
Project developed in 2004:
* The Trouble with Islam (DOC)
Independent volume:$1,647,823
Service volume: $79,417

Alberta Filmworks
1310-11th Street SW,
Calgary, AB T2R 1G6
Tel. (403) 777-9900
Fax: (403) 777-9914
Email: info@albertafilmworks.com
Website: www.albertafilmworks.com
Company established: 1988
Key executives: Doug MacLeod, executive producer; Randy Bradshaw, producer/director; Tom Cox, Jordy Randall, producers
Projects produced in 2004:
* Crazy Canucks (MOW) * Friend of the Family (MOW) * Shoebox Zoo (A/L-CH)
Projects developed in 2004:
* 1972 (MS) * Everest (MS) * Black Friday (MOW)
Independent volume:$19,000,000

Alcina Pictures
1 Atlantic Avenue,
Suite 100,
Toronto, ON M6K 3E7
Tel. (416) 364-3777
Fax: (416) 364-7123
Website: www.alcinapictures.com
Company established: 1997
Key executive: Paul Barkin, president
Projects produced in 2004:
* Sonny by Dawn (MOW) * Kardia
(T-DR)
Projects developed in 2004:
* Smashed (T-DR) * A Grain of Sand
(T-DR)
Independent volume:$1,030,000

Alliance Atlantis Communications
121 Bloor Street East,
Suite 1500,
Toronto, ON M4W 3M5
Tel. (416) 967-1174
Fax: (416) 960-0971
Website: www.allianceatlantis.com
Company established: 1978
Key executives: Norm Bolen, executive VP, programming & operations; Ted Riley, executive managing director, Alliance Atlantis International Distribution; Kirstine Layfield, senior VP, lifestyle programming; John Gill, senior VP, dramatic programming; Vanessa Case, VP, programming, Life Network & National Geographic; Karen Gelbart, VP, programming, Food Network, HGTV & Fine Living; Jody Read, VP, programming, BBC Canada, BBC Kids & Discovery Health Channel; Cindy Witten, VP, production, History Television; Ken Faier, VP, production & distribution, children's TV; Alan Gregg, director, development, children's TV