For veteran Toronto animation house Cuppa Coffee, a thriving spot, long-form and broadcast design business keeps it on the leading edge of trends. For Cuppa kahuna Adam Shaheen, evolving with the industry and diversifying within an open-ended business model are two…

Rockwood, Ont.: It’s the last weekend of the 25-day shoot for Red Green’s Duct Tape Forever, a feature film out of S&S Productions, Toronto, producer of cult hit TV series the New Red Green Show. Despite the drizzle, the weather has been smooth throughout production, with indoor shots fortuitously planned for this misty Friday.
Executive produced by David Smith, Duct Tape Forever follows the gang at Possum Lodge as they try to save their treasured meeting place by raising $10,000 to pay for repairs to a limousine damaged outside the lodge. To raise the money, the lodge brothers enter a duct-tape sculpting competition where the third prize is $10,000, and ‘go for the bronze’ with an oversized duct-tape goose.

WHEN Richard Bullock and his wife Toni purchased Boz Films from Greg Bosworth in 1997, the two jumped head-first into the world of Vancouver commercial production….

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….

Congratulations! It’s our most offensive year yet. Our standards are as fabulously low as they have ever been, and the public is outraged. Seems like we’re finally getting things right….

LOOK around Angel Films director Jamie Way’s first professional ‘bid-to-close’ directing job and you’ll see a crew thawing out from a long, arduous winter. The warm April sunshine and the inspired, feathered symphony tweet-tweet-tweetin’ through the neighborhood make the one-day shoot…

From Paradise Riders to fishmongers to brawling supermodels, Jigsaw Casting takes pride in knowing a lot of strange people. As Jigsaw approaches its 10th anniversary this coming August, Playback On the Spot takes a look at how the company started, what…

IN 1986, Derek Treffry and Greg Fisher played in a band together. At the time, the two young men had little idea they were setting out on a 15-year musical odyssey, a journey that is finally reaching maturity in the realm…

If you’re wondering where the boys at Lost Boys Studios really are – they’ve been found. Just look south, way south – to crowded Mexico City. …

Montreal cinematographer Alexis Durand-Brault says he is ‘probably the youngest DOP in town.’ The cinematographer, who also directs some spots, has been represented by Montreal spot shop La Fabrique d’Images since 1998. He signed his first deal with La Fabrique at…

LES Zellan, chairman of the board for Cooke Optics and North American representative for the U.K. lens manufacturer (through his distribution company ZGC), says ‘at the end of the day the only two things that will really influence the image are…

Montreal: Montreal’s Cinelande turns 15 this month, and with its anniversary comes a number of changes for the veteran spot shop. A breakthrough in the Toronto market, a new website, a short film contest and a new alternative media company, 401, highlight what has been an eventful period at what executive producer Alex Sliman calls ‘the new Cinelande.’