Late last month, Angel Films’ Sarah Ker-Hornell added Aubrey Singer to her roster of three other Canadian commercial directors. With the agreement, Singer, who has worked in advertising for 10 years including a stint as an associate creative director with TBWA…

Academy Award nominee Atom Egoyan, one of Canada’s foremost long-form directors, has accepted his first commercial directing job. Represented by Imported Artists, Egoyan is helming a two-day PricewaterhouseCoopers shoot in Toronto. The 30-second spot is out of u.s. agency Hill Holliday…

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Puppet Works, a Toronto company specializing in tactile input solutions for 3D animation, has unveiled a new product with potential applications in the commercial production industry – Face Works….

The fix is in Vancouver. This past February, Global Mechanic, a new commercial animation production house, touched down in Vancouver with an eye on u.s. spot production and the development of independent long-form projects….

Two and a half years ago, John Poisson created Ice Storm Digital Studio in Montreal to handle a job he acquired doing the photo-realistic effects for the Filmline International series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne. The series, which required more…

Montreal is one of Canada’s best and most beautiful urban destinations and its vibrant local production scene is thriving. Over the last year, with the opening of several world-class soundstages, the European-flavored city is working to lure more large-scale international and…

Scenic Vancouver has long been a production destination for foreigners looking for beautiful locations, great crews and super-duper exchange rates. Now, as the demand to shoot on the West Coast increases, and with a 50% increase in the number of available…

For the first time since 1981, Canada struck gold at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. The golden spot, directed by Radke Films’ Martin Shewchuk, was a 90-second cinema ad for the Ontario Toyota Dealers called ‘Real Dealers Can’t Jump’ out of…

Casting directors in Toronto are up in arms over what they call actions ‘not in the best interests of Canadian performers’ by the Canadian talent union actra….

Established commercial directors are the subject of this regular feature. Each issue we will profile their careers, accomplishments and the ideas that propel them to new advertising heights….

‘Snoopy Brush-a-Brush-a-Toothbrush/When you wake up in the morning!/A really nice touch!’ Around a decade and a half later, this song still rolls around in the heads of many veteran tv watchers, commercial connoisseurs and Peanuts fans. Now, in the days of…