Never mind Christmas without a Santa Claus, this was almost the year (on its 20th anniversary in fact) that Ottawa didn’t have its animation festival ­ the world’s second largest and North America’s only competitive animated film showcase….

‘It just crossed my desk, it came to me out of nowhere, I knew nothing about it even being made out here,’ says Canadian Images programmer John Dippong of Drawing Flies, one of ‘the gems’ he found while wading through a…

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The fiercely competitive, violent, aggressive game of hockey…

Increasingly complex computer imaging and graphics, online Internet access, Web sites, digital transmissions…

Drew Jarvis showed up on the doorsteps of Revolver Films in 1994, fresh from film studies at the Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena, California and carrying a reel of three spec spots. Executive producer Tom McLean was impressed with…

Teacher, photographer, commercial director – Ron Baxter Smith is an explorer, not only of various mediums and art forms, but also of ideas and visual stimuli….

‘Where’s Fawcett? He was supposed to be here for a screening at two.’ Producer Michael Rosen is making a string of phone calls from his office at Toronto commercial production house Hoodoo Films when director John Fawcett rushes in, clad in…

Web sites are scoring big hits for tv broadcasters and producers and becoming as popular among audiences as the shows they promote. But network and show Webmasters are quickly learning that creative content and audience interactivity are the key to keep…

‘It’s a Generation x comedy – it’s the story of a slacker taking the first steps to the rest of his life,’ says Kari Skogland of her fresh new feature film, The Size of Watermelons. This is also a first step…

Elaine, a jaded cabaret performance artist, leaves behind an unfaithful fiancee and embarks on an impressionistic adventure in search of a life. The ‘girl from nowhere’ travels by train, moped, ferry, taxi and plane, wandering the crowded streets of New York…