Toronto’s Dan Krech Productions celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this month. The visual effects/animation shop officially opened its doors June 24, 1985, and partner Dan Krech estimates the studio has since put together or contributed to upwards of 2,000 commercials and long-form…

Halifax-based Chronicle Pictures has a pair of new projects in development. The three-year-old production company gained some notoriety last year with a Gemini nomination for its first, and only project to date, December 1917, a half-hour drama for Global Television….

Stephen Yeates, a veteran of Canadian commercial directing, has joined up with Philip Mellows and will now be represented in Canada by the Players Film Company….

Salter Street Films has picked up the international distribution rights to a number of Canadian-made projects from literally across the country. Salter’s vp of acquisitions and coproductions, Liliana Vogt, says the company has made a serious effort to step up its…

Global Television is boasting a new schedule with an increased dose of new Canadian, half-hour, primetime series for the 2000/01 season, unveiled at a press conference June 5 in Toronto….

The East Coast will be represented at the Banff Television Festival’s Market Simulation this year by Gemini Award-winner Edward Kay. Kay has joined forces with Halifax-based Collideascope producer Steve Comeau and Judy Klassen to create the series North of Northwood, which…

Alberta-based producer Gerri Cook is not sure her environmentally friendly series can save the planet, but she is certain that it will help to entertain it….

What a difference a year has made for filmmaker Cristine Richey. This time last year she was busily preparing her documentary on deviant sexual practices and sadomasochistic behavior, called Tops & Bottoms, for the festival circuit. This year, she is preparing…

Toronto-based director Jean-Marc Piche has made a dramatic leap from one of Toronto’s top commercial production houses to another when he recently left Avion Films to join Industry Films. Piche, who has made a name for himself directing in Toronto, Montreal…

Many Playback commercial industry readers will surely recall How to Get Ahead in Advertising, a 1989 film from Britain. Tim Hamilton seems to have figured out ‘how’ and he doesn’t even have a talking boil to contend with (at least, not…

Ottawa-based Funbag Animation has signed a $93.6-million agreement with South Asia’s UTV Toons. The deal calls for a creative and business relationship between the two companies on nine 26-episode original animated children’s series, which will reportedly unspool over the next three…

Members of the Atlantic Film Partners – comprised of Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, the Newfoundland Labrador Film Development Corporation, Film nb and PEI Business Development – banded together in Halifax in early May and successfully negotiated a means to access…