It’s no secret that Ottawa’s Funbag Animation has been keeping company with Sullivan Entertainment in attempts to forge a distribution agreement, but it’s looking like the two companies may team up on the production and direction of an animation property….

It’ll be anything but slow at Canada’s animation houses this summer. In between wrangling for more lead time from the u.s. nets and scaring up talent to fill an ever-increasing number of positions, maybe there’ll be a moment or two to…

Oh, to be a young, talented storyboardist. The world would be your oyster (or any shellfish you’d prefer). There’s the opportunity for travel, the money, the upward mobility. You wouldn’t be a cog in the wheel of production, you’d be a…

‘There are mixed feelings in the animation community towards Disney,’ says Cassandra Schafhausen at Cinar, Montreal. No kidding….

‘You know, it’s just like sex in high school – all talk and no action.’…

Three Henrys, no waiting. That’s going to be the mantra at Command Post from now on….

The second annual Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival wrapped up June 9 after unspooling the interesting fruits of the labors of filmmakers from over 32 countries. Over 1,000 entries were received….

If you’re a director in Canada with an eye on the States, the good news is you can probably build that bridge. The bigger question is, will you ever come back?…

Coca-Cola is inspiring. In fact, it’s inspiring enough to make a bunch of funky cool people stand under the Gardiner Expressway taking communal swigs from a great, big, glistenin’, drippin’ bottle of it….

It all started with John Lowell Jr. way back in ’36. 1836 that is. The Lowell Institute, and a 1946 venture by six Boston colleges to broadcast its lecture series, was born from a 110-year-old legacy left by Lowell to create…

‘When we established this festival in 1979,’ says Banff Television Festival president Jerry Ezekiel, ‘we set out to recognize the best television in the world, and that very much includes the best television on commercial networks.’…

Montreal choreographer Jean-Pierre Perreault, creator of the post-modern dance sensation Joe, only watches television in hotels. ‘I look at television and I think, God! What poverty! How much Oprah Winfrey can they watch?’…