Toronto writer/director Matt Hawkins took home a Gold at the New York Festivals for his efforts on some recent ytv station ids. Hawkins, who leads the creative for on-air promotions at ytv, is repped for commercial work by Toronto’s LTB Productions….

Alberta is sometimes overlooked by potential clients and agencies who are scouting locations for commercial shoots – and many Alberta-based producers cannot understand why this is so. While major centres like Toronto and Vancouver often win out, Alberta, the meat in…

Newfoundland producer Paul Pope is busy looking for a director and top-level cast for his new feature film Rare Birds. The comedy is being produced by Pope’s Pope Productions and Vancouver’s Big Pictures Entertainment (with producer Janet York), adapted from a…

Jana Peck has joined the director roster at Avion Films, coming aboard from Cossette where she was a copywriter. A very respected copywriter. Avion executive producer Paola Lazzeri says when Avion received a script from Peck’s desk it was always welcome….

On day two of shooting Irwin Toys’ campaign for Dragonball z action figures, codirected by Navigator Films’ Harry Lake and Madi Piller, the set is everything one might imagine a toys shoot to be. The atmosphere is relaxed but excited, still…

The newest Toyota Dealers of Ontario spot from Radke Films director Martin Shewchuk and the creative team at Gee Jeffery & Partners, headed by Gee Jeffery vp and creative director Brett Channer, has garnered a great deal of praise lately. The…

While Stephen Stohn admits most people tend to glaze over when talk turns to copyright, it’s a topic he’s truly passionate about….

Having served on the cftpa’s finance and tax committee for a number of years, Stephen Ord is now in his second year as the committee’s cochair, a responsibility he shares with the Royal Bank’s Robert Maurice. Traditionally, the primary task of…

The cftpa’s national training/mentorship program is very close to the heart of Kevin DeWalt, who was instrumental in establishing the mentorship committee during his tenure as cftpa chair….

Kevin DeWalt, ceo of Regina’s Minds Eye Pictures, moonlights as chairman of the cftpa distribution committee. The committee was formed two years ago to represent the interests of Canadian television distributors who, DeWalt says, were barely being heard over groups representing…

New Brunswick’s Aliant, the result of a merger of Atlantic Canada’s telecommunications holding companies, is launching an interactive television service delivered commercially by member company NBTel….

It is doubtful that anyone was happier to see we still had power to work our tv sets after y2k than Gary Prouk of Toronto advertising and marketing consulting firm The Sebastian Consultancy and director Eugene Beck of Angel Films….