Cinar Films has launched its bilingual, animated Web site (http://www.cinar.com) with hopes of attracting interest from potential buyers….
Anne Murray’s Toronto and Nashville-based music management and publishing company, which has newly been named Balmur Entertainment, is looking to expand its tv production beyond the variety and music specials now filling most of its library. Tony Baylis, former cfo at…
slated for May 21-26, the 5th annual Dreamspeakers Festival in Edmonton is expecting its biggest numbers ever, thanks, in part, to a concerted effort to bring out youth. Two hundred and fifty attendees are expected to take part in the aboriginal…
‘They’re not going to say, `I’m not opening Broken Arrow this week because I’m opening Margaret’s Museum.’ That will never, ever happen in this country. Ever.’…
He’s Snook, a St. John’s’ ‘corner-boy’ with a sharp tongue outmatched only by his even sharper wit. Putting in his two cents on the issues of the day (particularly politics, in a province where politics is three parts three-ring circus and…
‘She’s been, for years, what all the young production house producers want to be – the perfect producer.’…
It’s an Easter story set at Christmas. A small-town petty criminal searches for redemption while trying to protect his ill son and his ex-wife from a dangerous foe, a former partner in crime who’s been freed from jail. ‘Jerry’s kind of…
Playback asked Canadian film and television production companies what they had spent on independent production in 1995. Their responses revealed that total Canadian independent production expenses for ’95 topped the $951.5 million mark with about $892 million being spent on production…
It’s spring and post-production minds are busting out all over with a typically all-encompassing range of projects; the weird, the wonderful and the invisible….
It’s spring and post-production minds are busting out all over with a typically all-encompassing range of projects; the weird, the wonderful and the invisible….
In this report we take a look at the activities and game plans of Canada’s public production companies….
Even in an age when animators can call upon the monster memory of super-computers to help squeeze their creative juices, colored pencils and animation paper can still be called on to produce new results….