In January, the Union of British Columbia Performers was incorporated into actra, bringing to a close a five-year battle between the two rival unions in b.c. that tore away at the entire national membership….

Outside Davin, Sask., an 1870s western boom-town sprang up from the prairie dust in mid-October. Not just a few houses and stable fronts, either. We’re talking a full-fledged community with a blacksmith shop, corral, graveyard, a boarding house, a choice of…

comm.bat films director David Storey is on location at the York University track. It’s 8:30 a.m. and he’s waiting for the lead in the Helene Curtis Degree antiperspirant commercial he’s shooting with dop Doug Koch….

There’s no better way for a special effects/prosthetics shop to open a new location than with a Halloween party and that’s how Toronto’s Complections International celebrated its new 8,000-square-foot space at 85 St. Nicholas Street….

It’s Manchester, Eng., 1949, and two Scudder investment researchers are led into the dim caverns of an aircraft research facility. In black and white, with exquisite plays on light and shadow setting a mood of dramatic expectancy, an inventor reveals drawings…

Ironically, it is next year’s awards show, not the upcoming Nov. 8-9 program, that’s the crucial issue at this year’s Alliance for Children and Television’s Festival and Awards of Excellence….

Nominees for the Alliance for Children and Television’s 1996 Awards of Excellence in Canadian children’s programming are as follows:…

For the period June 1 to Aug. 31, 1996, Telefilm Canada committed a total of $37,597,447 to 62 new Canadian television and feature film projects….

Taking a new twist on the game of cat and mouse, Griffin Bacal Volny and The Players Film Company have come up with a fast-paced, quick-cut, high-energy 30 for Yokohama’s Guardex 600 winter radial tires….

Are you not getting a charge out of commercials these days?…

As the level of Canadian production increases in volume and sophistication, the Canadian production and post scene has, like an attractive and sonorous onion, created layers of talent to support every audio and visual requirement….

After spending summer evenings on the patio furiously swatting and inflicting not very nice names on swarms of uninvited pests, it’s obvious that flies are attracted to light. But Ikea lamps?…