Jillian Morgan

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B.C. Scene

Cold enough for you? Vancouver substitutes for the frozen North…

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Griffiths built Western broadcast empire

vVancouver: Canadian broadcast pioneer Frank A. Griffiths Sr., chairman and founder of WIC Western International Communications, died in Vancouver April 7 after a lengthy illness. He was 77….

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Industry mourns loss of F/X wizard

Life on the ledge: the legacy of John Thomas…

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B.C. Scene

Pantygate! It could only happen in Lotusland…

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B.C. to get $9 million over two years

Vancouver: It’s taken six years to dot the i’s and cross the t’s, but the Canada-British Columbia Agreement on Communications and Cultural Industries is finally a reality….

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B.C. Scene

Double Happiness examines a…

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B.C. budget: no

news is bad news…

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Damberger: in his own words

There’s nothing more traumatizing for a young writer than to labor lovingly for months on that first screenplay, carefully crafting it to perceived perfection, and then have some producer alter it dramatically….

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Series changing face of industry

Ask any producer in Alberta what the single most important change in their provincial industry has been over the last year and one answer is bound to surface – series production. Not since the 19-year run of cbc’s Beachcomber series in…

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The whirling dervish behind Local Heroes

Not many people would admit they started their career as a clown. But for Jan Miller, executive director of the Local Heroes International Film Festival, it’s not just an admission, it’s a point of pride….

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Hornecker: a straight shooter

Even though Two Brothers, A Girl And A Gun doesn’t add up to three – director William Hornecker’s lucky number – it went one better at this month’s Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association annual awards show in Calgary, winning four awards,…

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New distributor for B.C.

Vancouver: Producers on the West Coast will once again be able to avoid that $1,000 cup of coffee in order to have a face-to-face conversation with a feature film distributor. Late last month, John Curtis and Rob Straight announced the launch…