The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television will hand out a set of special Gemini awards to those who have made a considerable contribution to Canadian television. The awards will be presented over the three nights of the Geminis program (Nov….

The Comedy Network is going for more laughs as it slowly but steadily unveils its new lineup for the season, including three new original productions….

Devine Entertainment recently launched a new interactive website, devinetime.com….

Toronto’s Spin Productions has added the well-known New York-based director and graphic designer David Carson to its roster of talent. The move furthers Spin’s position in the graphics branch of the industry, having signed representation deals with design shops BarkinHotStudio and…

To properly give the vast Canadian television audience an impression of what it might be like to have your destiny in the hands of someone wielding a joystick, a tbwa/Chiat Day creative team, headed up by cocreative directors Jamie Way and…

Still in its infant stages and operating without an office or proper phone number, Toronto’s Bent Animation is starting to make a name for itself – both at home and south of the border. Earning a solid reputation based primarily on…

Big Films is hard at work on a film about big creatures for really big screens. The large-format film is tentatively called A Day in the Life and BiG president Daniel White expects the 3D animated, 35-minute creature feature to be…

In the extremely competitive world of multimedia software and gaming, where thousands of companies get lost in the mix, one outfit is very quietly working its way into the software spotlight, Ubi Soft….

Heritage Minister Sheila Copps met recently in Toronto with representatives of the Video Software Dealers Association’s Canadian National Council. The purpose of the meeting, part of Focus on Video ’99 (vsda turf), was to discuss ways to better promote Canadian film…

Film director David Cronenberg was among the recipients of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for a lifetime’s worth of contribution to Canadian arts. Cronenberg has helmed 17 films in his career including Crash, Scanners and, more recently, eXistenZ….

Thanks in part to the MuchMusic Video Awards, the Canadian production spotlight shifts for a night each year to some well-deserving young soldiers that wade in Canada’s film trenches….

Alan DiFiore and Keith Ross Leckie split a Gemini nomination for their collaborative scriptwriting efforts on the acclaimed Milgaard….