Lacewood Studio’s former vp of production Lee Williams has opened up his own Ottawa animation company, Boomstone Entertainment, with partner Debra Wynter, but the 12-year Lacewood veteran isn’t straying far from his roots….

Over the past year new provincial film development corporations and tax incentives, infrastructure expansion, and beefed-up production slates have been coming in as fast as Atlantic Canada’s changing tide as the region’s film and television industry seeks to grow and diversify….

Codco, This Hour Has 22 Minutes…the Atlantic region’s ability to tickle the country’s collective funny bone is one of its claims to fame and in addition to the series supplied by Salter Street Films, local producers have a new crop of…

‘Animation is the busiest genre around here,’ says established feature film producer Chris Zimmer, and on the heels of his Cannes award-winning Love and Death on Long Island he’s getting in on the action with the animated editorial cartoon series Politoons….

The ramp to tv drama production is getting a little smoother for Atlantic producers….

Without a production credit to her name and situated on Prince Edward Island where an indigenous film industry is only beginning to crystallize, undaunted Gretha Rose set out in January to birth her own production company as well as the local…

‘Right now the specialty channels are offering the opportunity for smaller producers to establish themselves in series work,’ says Halifax producer Charles Bishop, who’s serving up a healthy helping of 26 half-hours of Foodessence – which he emphasizes is not a…

Middle ground is where Epitome Pictures prez Linda Schuyler sits and from this vantage point the recently elected chair of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association intends to herd the scattered film and television interests over to the same side…

It was commencement night June 16 for this year’s crop of Canadian Film Centre residents who premiered their short dramas at Toronto’s Uptown Theatre and thanked the production community for their support with the first annual Payback Awards, sponsored by Playback….

High Road Productions is heading to the Calgary Stampede in July to shoot four-time wwf champ Bret ‘Hit Man’ Hart’s comeback attempt and film the bad guy’s romp through the streets as a parade marshal….

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…

In a deal struck to offer both companies an edge in animated tv production, Atlantis Communications has acquired a 50% stake in Calibre Digital Pictures, the Toronto service company currently producing special effects for Atlantis series’ The Adventures of Sinbad and…