Dave Lazar

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Tube dresses up black sheep

Tube Images bigwig Danny Bergeron remembers a day 20 years ago when broadcast design was his major source of work. Now, with the bulk of Montreal-based Tube’s work in commercial animation and long-form projects, Bergeron speaks of Tube’s continuing love of…

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Canada at BDA

The Broadcast Designers Association, an international association of designers in all aspects of broadcast, is holding its 22nd annual design award show during the annual promax and bda conference and exposition, being held in New Orleans, June 14-17….

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Finding the Stanley Cup out of the blue

Again this year, Labatt Breweries is attaching its Blue brand to the holy grail of Canadian sports fantasies, the Stanley Cup. The seven-spot ‘Out of the Blue’ campaign, through Toronto agency Ammirati Puris Lintas, began airing this month and will continue…

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Welch determined to make it in Canada

Blink Pictures’ Sam Welch is a Canadian director, living in a Canadian city, doing Canadian jobs. In a marketplace of open borders and hot international directors, he is making his stand for The Great White North through an innovative style and…

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Church gets some Moxi

Toronto has a new location for commercial production shoots. Moxi Studios is a 1,050-square-foot commercial production studio tucked into the Church at Berkeley, a Heritage Building originally constructed in 1871 as a Wesleyan Methodist place of worship….

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Credo restructuring continues

The exit door had barely swung closed behind producer Kim Todd at Winnipeg’s Credo Entertainment when Jeff Peeler of spot unit Credo Productions followed her out….

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Revived CPAT sparks debate

Propelled by thorny issues facing the industry, Toronto commercial producers and their suppliers have reformed the Commercial Production Association of Toronto. The association has been revived to tackle these issues and bring the industry a unified voice….

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Mr. Barbie produces from the penthouse

Wayne Kozak, a former Ko in Vancouver’s KoKo Productions, has launched his own, new-style audio entity, Wayne Kozak Audio Productions….

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Williams shoots Cdn. spots

Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams hails from Ontario, Canada – a province far removed from his farm in the rolling hills outside San Francisco. Repped in Canada by Mad Films, the commercial director, best known for his work as supervising animator on such…

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On set: The Princess and the Ski

She’s a Taiwanese princess. She’s the Madonna of Hong Kong. She’s even got an asterisk in her first name! Vancouver’s The Ace Film Company took this exotic superstar, a king’s daughter who gets fined for shaking her royal hands with fans,…

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Cite offers tax-credited site to media, tech types

Ever get the urge to set up shop in cosmopolitan Montreal? How about tucking away your company in the European-flavored old quarter of the city?…

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Mann power and the art of spot casting

You’ve won the job, your director is selected and your storyboard is approved. It’s time to take the first step in the commercial production process. It’s time to cast your spots….