‘Some of the stuff is very gently peculiar, so the overall feeling of this movie is a bit like being on lithium or something. You feel like giggling every now and then.’…

With less than three weeks until the 21st Toronto International Film Festival takes off, the international buy-and-sell brass scheduled to man the sales office at the Rogers Industry Centre guarantees producers and distributors will be tiff-bound with more than just flick-feasting…

Linda Schuyler of Epitome Pictures (Liberty Street) is building a project which she thinks is ‘perfect for cbc at this critical point.’ The cbc is on board with Schuyler and cocreator Yan Moore (who wrote for Liberty Street and Sullivan’s Road…

Part artist, part chemist, part meteorologist; dops, no matter where or how they were trained, must have a mind for the mechanics and an eye for the more elusive elements like composition, light and shadow. And whether they made their name…

While the Ontario Film Development Corporation continues working to establish the new Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit, plans are being laid for other initiatives supporting the agency’s new philosophy. Says ceo Alexandra Raffe: ‘We aren’t in a position to be…

Perspective Canada programmers for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival have put together what they call the fest’s most startling and controversial Canadian series to date. The slate of 15 features, 27 shorts and one gala includes 10 directorial debuts and…

Toronto production levels, according to the number-crunchers at the Toronto Film and Television Office, were up slightly in the first half of 1996. There were 61 productions (excluding music videos) in the period from January to June, up from 59 in…

‘Music is one of the best buys for the money in the entire film production process.’…

As the homespun adage goes, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ Or in other words, particularly those of director Allan Mestel, ‘If the idea is clean and it works, don’t make it more complex than it needs to be.’…

A sweet summer day in Claremont, Ont. and the local kids are getting an eyeful, checking out the craft truck, scanning the crowd, trying to spot the stars. Around the front of the farmhouse, the crew is setting up a picket…

in the summer of 1946, Jackie Robinson cracked the bat and ran the bases just like every other player on the Montreal Royals, but Robinson’s story is not just a baseball story. As the first black man in this century to…

It was a time to sit down and discuss nuts and bolts, dollars and cents. At the Atlantic Film and Television Conference in June, representatives from all four provinces projected a $150 million regional industry by the year 2001, with a…