The clay creatures, puppets and articulated models of stop-frame animation, while long welcomed in the u.k. and Eastern Europe, have often been turned away from North America’s door by a public weaned on Disney’s cel animation. Differences between time slot lengths…

Director/producer/ scriptwriter: Paul Donovan – Coproducers: Eric Jordan, Paul Stephens – Diary by: Nancy Hughes…

December 1989: Darrell Wasyk, having completed his acclaimed feature film H, goes to Guyana to research locations for a tropical love story he plans to write. He comes to see the ‘abandoned country’, as the perfect backdrop for the dysfunctionality of…

1988: While studying mass culture at the Universite de Montreal, Claude Fortin shoots a short scenario on vhs in which the main character steals a camera and attempts to film his life story. The script is Fortin’s reaction to having ‘grown…