Newfoundland and Nova Scotia stargazers get an eyeful this spring when Miramax brings The Shipping News to the East Coast.
Adapted from E. Annie Proulx’s award-winning novel of the same name, The Shipping News will shoot on location in the Trinity Bay area of Newfoundland and take advantage of studio space in Dartmouth, ns.

The focus of this regular section is on agencies in Canada. Looking for agency business strategies and creative teams’ secret weapons? We tell all in Ad Missions….

One of the best kept secrets on the West Coast commercial production scene is ready to emerge into the wider public eye and become a major player in the Canadian spot trade. Says who? Actually – Sezwho. …

In what is reportedly his only songwriting credit, Al Waxman wrote, ‘I am Canada/ I’m a lover of life/ I’m a dreamer of dreams’ in a 1978 song called Gotta Hear You Say It Too….

Two Toronto-based commercial production companies are taking chances on a pair of new, virtually untested directors, as Kyle Davison signs with Sparks Productions and Park Bench signs with The Big Film Company….

The 2001 Bessie Awards will be handed out May 24 at the Sheridan Hotel in Toronto. Among Canada’s top prizes for commercial production, Bessie is celebrating its 38th year after a huge show last year that saw ads for Lever Pond’s…

Twenty-five years is a long time in any line of work, but for a commercial director it is an eternity. Director Alan Marr is celebrating his first quarter century as a director with a significant move – from Toronto production house…

Someone once said the two hardest forces to work with in show business are animals and children. No one around these parts is too sure who coined that cliche, however, we are certain it was not director Larry August. …

Post-production and its powers are personified in this column. We’ll cover new techniques, technologies and the creative personnel and companies giving them vibrant visual life….

Corpses, authentic crime-scene photographs and a six-foot tongue. Yup – just another day at the office for Grand Unified Theories’ founder Scott Hamilton. Hamilton, who makes his living by creating eye-catching props and special makeup designs for advertising, television, and film,…

Animation Canada’s Bruce Richardson helps animators find the solution that’s right for them from among the vast array of toony software packages available at his Toronto outlet….

Actor Al Waxman, who endeared himself to Canadians in the 1970s cbc sitcom The King of Kensington, died Jan. 18 at Toronto Western Hospital following heart bypass surgery. He was 65….