Fueled by an $8,000 grant from the federal government’s Department of Foreign Affairs, the third annual Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival expects to pump up the presence of international buyers and drive up market opportunities at this year’s event….

With 40 years of ‘painting with light’ to their credit, awards chair and host J’e Sunday saluted the talents of Canadian Society of Cinematographers members at its annual awards gala held April 19 in Toronto….

On the heels of its 10th anniversary, Alberta’s Great North Communications is going national….

Producers are used to getting pitched in washrooms, cabs, all sorts of odd settings. But those are just the tip of the iceberg. Playback asked producers to recall unlikely spots where they’ve been ambushed and responses included a Hell’s Angels clubhouse…

After five days of wheeling and dealing at a financiers club and pitch session as well as schmoozing at an array of parties and screenings, Hot Docs!, Toronto’s fourth annual international documentary festival, wrapped March 23 with both Canadian and foreign…

While that oxymoronic standby ‘less is more’ has proven sporadically true at best over its long life, in the post-production world the adage is gaining some respect. Born of the evolution of digital technology and the constant search for time and…

Special effects animator Mario Marengo is sitting at an sgi workstation conjuring up the Shadowbuilder demon who materializes as decaying bones, demented dogs, and fiendish wasps – these cg elements spewing forth amid smoky shadow treatments and dark distortions that bring…

Toronto’s Shaftesbury Films and Regina’s Heartland Motion Pictures are partnering up on $20 million worth of television movies set for production in Saskatchewan….

Just six months after opening its doors, new Toronto-based production company Sargent York Entertainment has cracked the kids’ market. Its first tv project is airing on Nickelodeon and two tv series and a feature, ringing in at a total of $15.4…

‘I see it as the little festival that could,’ says executive director Debbie Nightingale of Hot Docs!, set in motion four years ago by the Canadian Independent Film Caucus despite a feasibility study that said it wouldn’t attract an audience….

Rather than celebrating its 10th year on Alberta pastures planning future bumper crops of homegrown and produced product, Great North Productions is being forced to look to other provinces to shoot its programs and worries over the future of the Alberta…

Axyz Animation is a new player on the Toronto field where numerous animation houses have cropped up of late. But with five jobs wrapped after only two months in the game, it’s clear partners John Stollar and John Coldrick have managed…