While Canada continues to act as a mecca for film and tv production, the sophistication and size of the post and effects industry has grown commensurately, offering an ever more comprehensive complement of gear and services….

While Canada continues to act as a mecca for film and tv production, the sophistication and size of the post and effects industry has grown commensurately, offering an ever more comprehensive complement of gear and services….

A group of Nova Scotia producers including the Nova Scotia Producers Association has been actively lobbying the Ministries of Economic Development and Finance to increase the province’s film and television tax credit to 40% from 30% in Halifax and 45% in…

Following the success and notoriety of his Genie Award-winning directorial and screenwriting debut The Hanging Garden, Nova Scotia-based Thom Fitzgerald is back directing and producing his next feature and hoping to avoid the sophomore jinx. A stylish and comic docudrama examining…

Having honed their skills on a variety of genres of projects from commercials to all manner of long-form service work, and having worked all over the geographical and stylistic map, Canadian animation companies are flourishing….

Prolific documentary producer/director Peter d’Entremont of Halifax’s Triad Films has just picked up the Japan Foundation’s President’s Prize at the 24th Japan Prize International Educational Program Contest in Tokyo for his direction of the National Film Board documentary Bronwen and Yaffa….

With this month’s Paramount Pictures u.s. video release of two of Salter Street Films’ sci-fi lexx films and a deal in place which will see two more released shortly, the growth of Salter Street is continuing under new president and coo…

Although the crew has been shooting nights for three weeks, and the wind on top of the Toronto parking garage that is the evening’s location is biting, Burt Reynolds’ first night on set seems to have added some inspiration for everyone…

Former Skyvision executives Howard Rosen and Albert Botha have emerged to form Roadhouse Productions, a new Toronto-based service and production company promising forays into a varied array of film and tv genres for service and/or production….

The Ontario government announced Nov. 17th that it will introduce an 11% refundable tax credit on Ontario wages for production services companies producing projects which qualify for the new federal film or video production services tax credit. Legislation will be included…

Digital Fusion Version 2.0 and Digital Fusion Post, the nt-based nonlinear compositing and post-production software from Toronto’s Eyeon Software, began shipping earlier this month with a whack of new features and plug-ins that promise to give cg artists access to design…

Though there is no doubt that the efforts of Film New Brunswick head Sam Grana and his enticing 40% tax credit have kick started the once nearly idle New Brunswick production slate, at least one Maritime production company is raising serious…