According to director of photography Michael Marshall, the biggest challenge in shooting HD is in the lighting.

While the Saskatchewan industry hopes a rise in indigenous projects will offset a soft 2005, B.C. remains Western Canada’s Hollywood hot spot, and Manitoba and Alberta are basking in an Oscar glow that is making for a busy summer of offshore activity.

Add stock footage providers to the growing list of players seizing opportunities in the burgeoning world of new digital technologies.

A new APTN animated youth program is the only new English-language series given an injection of cash from the Independent Production Fund.

The makers of Falcon Beach have replaced the show’s entire creative team as shooting of its second season gets underway in Manitoba.

The Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival will expand its workshops and introduce a pitch session to bolster business opportunities when the four-day fest returns to the southern Saskatchewan town on May 25.

As Stargate SG-1 rolls on its 10th season, even the head of programming at its U.S. broadcaster is surprised at the series’ continued success.

It’s been called the hockey showdown of the century and a defining moment in the history of our nation.

Steve ‘Red Green’ Smith has hung up his duct tape and said so long to Possum Lodge. With 300 episodes under his tool belt, the veteran comedian ended his 15-year stint as writer, producer and star of CBC’s The Red Green Show when the final episode taped late last year. It airs on April 7.

Winnipeg: Avant-garde auteur Guy Maddin is venturing into new territory as he prepares to shoot a documentary about his Winnipeg hometown.

Regina: The mood was jubilant as the Saskatchewan production community gathered Nov. 16-18 for Showcase 2005, a conference and awards gala hosted by the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association to honor the best film, TV and new media projects made in the province.

winnipeg: 4 Square Productions of Regina will be crisscrossing the globe over the coming year to produce more installments of its Scarred By History series….