Director/producer/writer: Charles Wilkinson dop/producer: Tobias Schliessler – Producer/pm: Armand Leo – Diary by: Mary Maddever…

dramatic…

as good as always…

It’s not Cannes, but Atlantic Canada is a hub of film festival activity. Beyond providing the typical starry forum for films and filmmakers, the Maritimes festivals link the local industry with the world film community….

Winnipeg’s critically acclaimed (read: ton-o’-awards) animator Richard Condie, who tackled nuclear war/sawing addiction in The Big Snit, is now tackling computer animation, which may well prove addictive for him now that he’s Getting Started….

I thought someone had sent me shots of props for Jetsons, the live-action feature, but an ardent audiophile assures me the new Blue Room loudspeakers are destined to be part of the audio landscape….

The gem of the idea that was refined into the Banff Television Festival surfaced at a motion picture conference at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1976. Energized by the mountain air, inspired by the majesty of the setting, and…

This year was another record-breaker for entries wending their way to Banff from 38 countries and territories around the world. The Rockie Awards received 568 program submissions, which a festival selection committee narrowed down to 64 programs in 10 categories. In…

Shatner wins special award…

even better…

On the occasion of the Banff Television Festival’s 15th anniversary and its International Market Simulation’s 10th, Playback decided to take a look at some of the concrete programming that resulted from the pitches and relationships formed in the Rockies….

The new, improved and increasingly affordable breed of computer-based equipment sweeping the production and post-production sectors has not only changed ‘how’ things are getting done; the ‘who’ and ‘where’ are also changing….