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Parsley Days

Director/writer/producer/cinematographer: Andrea Dorfman * Diary by: Dustin Dinoff…

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desire

Director/writer: Colleen Murphy * Producer: Elizabeth Yake…

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Eco-Nova hunts the high seas with Cussler

Eco-Nova Multimedia Productions partner and producer John Wesley Chisholm seems to have a thing for shipwrecks – and he isn’t alone. His partner John Davis also has a thing for shipwrecks and last year at mipcom, Chisholm discovered popular American author…

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Stein steps in at PJ DDB

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….

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Zig spotlights breast cancer

Ladies, meet Cam. He’s a normal suburbanite kind of kid, but one with a message. He cares about your breasts. He wants to make sure you are all self-testing at least once a month, and if you don’t know how, he’ll…

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Apple Box steps up to Mitch

Apple Box Productions continues to make news with the recent signing of Toronto-based director Mitch Gabourie. A spot director of four years, Gabourie joins Apple Box from The Players Film Company, where he was represented for a year and a half….

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Stefan Morel’s Milky way

Got Milk? Stefan Morel sure does. Perhaps more accurately, Stefan Morel is Milk. His hands, in fact, are firmly pinching the commercial production udder of Milk Arts, a relatively new production company operating out of Montreal….

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AFF picks writers

Four screenwriters have been selected to take part in the Atlantic Film Festival’s fifth annual script development project over the course of the summer….

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Bullet seeks its targets

Allan Stevenson, owner and operator of the upstart Toronto-based commercial house known as Bullet Films, is now on the hunt for a roster of directors….

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Head Gear keeps it weird

The mood at Head Gear Animation is reasonably mellow on a hot day in July, despite the crushing amount of work ahead. Steve Angel, a Head Gear partner, is in good spirits and bleeds enthusiasm as he introduces the staff and…

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Electric Crayon makes its mark

When Ken Steel launched his 3D animation and post shop Electric Crayon eight months ago in Vancouver, he had no idea the response from the industry would be so immediate. With a current staff of 10, including the recent arrival of…

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Cuppa brings baseball icon back to life

Baseball fans rejoice. Mel Allen is alive and well and living at Toronto’s Cuppa Coffee Animation. He is a fraction of his original size, made of Plasticine and needs the help of dozens of interchangeable clay chins in order to yell…