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Directors spot their future

In this special report on commercial production, a sampling of Canadian directors look to the future of their industry….

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Rob Turner: `You have to puncture the U.S. market’

The 49th parallel technically still exists, but in the commercial production industry there is no division between the Canadian and American markets anymore, says director Rob Turner. What’s evolved over the past few years is a North American market where Canadian…

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David McNally: things

improving for Canadians…

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David McIlvaney: We’re exotic too

In the wake of the flood of American directors into their marketplace, Canadian directors have two choices, says director David McIlvaney. They can either sit in a downtown bar and curse their American counterparts, or they can look at the whole…

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Dale Heslip: it’s ideas

that win you the jobs…

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Young blood: Granger, Hamilton, Fawcett

Martin Granger, Tim Hamilton and John Fawcett are three new young directors undaunted by the promise of stiff competition from established directors on both sides of the border….

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Private funds may

not help: Nordicity…

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Winning the tech war at Medallion*PFA

Medallion*PFA Film and Video’s newly completed component digital post environment played a major role in the company winning the post contract for Atlantis Films’ megabucks high-tech action thriller series, TekWar….

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Poulette’s acclaim `a long time coming’

Montreal director Michel Poulette is this year’s winner of the Claude Jutra Award for direction of a first feature film for his Louis 19, le roi des ondes. Runners-up Gary Ledbetter (Henry and Verlin) and Mina Shum (Double Happiness) are featured…

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squeezed…

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Info highway

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The Artists

is ready for…