On a chilly but beautiful day in the Queen’s Quay/Lakeshore area of Toronto, Apple Box Productions director Randy Diplock asks for the attention of the crew gathered, setting up for a shot of a makeshift 747 cockpit….

Things are really beginning to take shape for the 20th edition of the Atlantic Film Festival, running Sept. 15-23 in Halifax….

Ammirati Puris Lintas chairman and creative director Doug Robinson’s name appears more often than any other on the Bessies 2000 finalists list. He is credited as creative director on six of the finalist spots and two finalist campaigns, suggesting that he…

Director Randy Diplock helped his home base, Apple Box Productions, secure a spot on the Bessies finalist list, not once, not twice, but thrice. The public service announcement campaign he shot for Saint John Ambulance nearly a year ago, depicting a…

Robert Gordon believes he lived a ‘Cinderella story’ while shooting the Ontario Tourism campaign that has made the Bessies shortlist. The director/cameraman says receiving the boards for ‘Maid of the Mist,’ ‘Sea Plane,’ ‘Loon’ and ‘Rideau’ (the latter of which is…

Some may suggest director Jim Lotter’s commercial work is ‘Faaan-tastic!’ Or so sayeth the talent in his popular and oft-airing Cash For Life lottery spot. The Minnesota-based, Big Films-repped director spends a lot of time shooting north of the border, and,…

Alex Eaton didn’t know what to expect when he left Third Floor Editing in the spring of 1997 to start his own post house. Three years later, Eaton’s Stealing Time is one of Toronto’s foremost editing facilities, employed often by agencies…

Following is an alphabetical listing of Canada’s Top Shops as determined by Playback’s third annual survey of audio post and post-production facilities across the country. Post includes editing, transfer and effects and animation. Axyz 425 Adelaide Street West, Toronto,…

Every once in a while there is a spot on the air that everyone is talking about. Currently, to the delight of Bensimon Byrne & D’Arcy creative director Glen Hunt and Mad Films executive producer Mark Bisson, that spot is ‘The…

A new power-charged spot for Nissan’s Pathfinder from Sparks Productions director/dop Sean Thonson turns the King of the Jungle on his tail in the wilds of – Los Angeles. ‘Antelope’ is the product of director Thonson and a TBWA Chiat/Day team…

Big Films director Ron Murphy is still laughing about losing his commercial virginity to Gilbert Gottfried. The Toronto-based rookie spot director, a self-proclaimed student of comedy, was thrilled to learn the focal point of his first pool of spots, for client…

A new Canada/u.k./France coproduction, Star Hunter, could help turn New Brunswick into a major Canadian production centre….