India and Canada renew co-production treaty talks
With India's burgeoning animation industry poised to soon come into its own, the Canadian government has signed a letter of intent to begin negotiating an audio-visual treaty between the two countries. Two previous attempts at finalizing an agreement in the late '80s and late '90s broke down because of government interventions and sanctions against India's nuclear program. But when the red tape lifted two years ago, a handful of Canadian animation producers joined their film and live-action colleagues to lobby for a return to the negotiating table.
January 1, 2004
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