Less is more. That’s the thinking behind the special effects creations going into the highly anticipated new series from Atlantis, Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, currently shooting in and around Toronto….

Brian Nimens often has to send contracted employees out to the Nevada desert because that is the only place where you can fire off guns ranging from pistols to bazookas, and set off earth-shattering explosions without disturbing people. Is Brian Nimens…

Perhaps it’s because he is a direct descendant of Louis Riel that The Partners’ Film Company director Mitch Gabourie has a penchant for getting great performances from actors….

Responding to speculation that Microforum will acquire high-end computer game developer Gray Matter, Microforum president and ceo Rick Winston says discussions are proceeding with due diligence that would effectively see Gray Matter become the internal development arm of Microforum….

The art of Canadian drama production….

The art of Canadian drama production….

Adobe Systems has begun production shipments on a Windows nt version of its highly successful and award-winning After Effects 3.1 desktop tool for digital compositing, 2D animation and special effects….

Panavision Canada has a new wireless microwave video receiver system for rent, and their camera department assistant manager Scott MacDonald thinks the applications for the system will ‘be limited only by imagination.’ The Dynapix triad multi receiver diversity system promises to…

Industrious outside producers are among the few who have found a silver lining to budget cuts at the Canadian Broadcasting Coroporation, as the use of independents has become a viable cost-saving strategy for the pubcaster in both the news/current affairs and…

While policy and funding issues are hashed out at the bureaucratic level by the mix of broadcaster, producer, and government interests, the changing shades of the Canadian production landscape also have a direct impact on the talent that provide a crucial…

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Toronto writer/director/assistant editor Tad Seaborn of Inamorata Productions says he felt surprised, overjoyed and then dreadful when he heard he had been awarded $10,000 worth of film stock and camera equipment as the winner of the Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival…