Director Atom Egoyan is frontlining an organized campaign to preserve Canadian film, video and audio materials with the formation of the Alliance for Canada’s Audio-Visual Heritage….
After doing the festival circuit with his much-anticipated The Hanging Garden that opens the Perspective Canada series at the Toronto International Film Festival and the 17th Atlantic Film Festival, as well as having its European premiere at the San Sebastian Film…
So now what? That’s the question we’ll be asking directors, producers and screenwriters with films at this year’s festival. Pitching will bring you up to date on what festival delegates have on deck, as they schmooze and pitch the players, hoping…
With 35 years’ experience in the broadcast business, including early work with American game show pioneers Dan Enright and Jack Barry and as a producer or director on 20 game or quiz shows, Sidney M. Cohen was the logical choice to…
Marketing types call it a ‘personality’ brand. Barq’s Root Beer has introduced itself to Canada by way of an edgy spot from Seattle agency Wieden & Kennedy that’s permeated with the proverbial personality elements designed to engage the target market of…
Paragon Entertainment’s long-range animation production plans have moved into the short term, boosted by its acquisition of the studio, production and library assets of the Lacewood Group….
‘If it’s not in the catalogue, make it,’ says Mark Irwin csc/asc, the Canadian cinematographer whose credits include The Fly, Scream and Vampire in Brooklyn (Paramount) and who now calls Hollywood home….
A few years ago actor Michael Moriarty was called to a meeting with u.s. Attorney General Janet Reno. He thought it was a photo op ‘Attorney General meets da from Law and Order.’…
In a deal that will see the cbc sharing another Canadian first broadcast window, this time with tvontario, Catalyst Entertainment will begin production Oct. 16 in Toronto on 40 half-hour episodes of the $10 million children’s series Noddy….