Pam Swedko

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Grana exits Film NB

Executive director Sam Grana has vacated his post at Film nb, leaving many concerned producers in his wake….

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Gemini Awards/Prix Gemeaux: Retro winners gauge impact

In the mid-’80s, the ACTRA Awards, an in-house, untelevised awards ceremony, was the only event honoring Canadian television. Robert Lantos, then president of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, felt the awards didn’t do justice to the industry. In 1986,…

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Atlantic Scene: The New Waterford Girls ready to lens in Halifax

The New Waterford Girls, a $3.2-million feature film coproduction between Halifax’s Imagex and Toronto’s Sienna Films, will start shooting in Halifax and Cape Breton Island in early October and continue rolling into November….

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On set: Total Recall 2070

The year is 2070. Humans and androids cohabit. And although the franchise is Total Recall, word on set is that the new Alliance Communications tv movie pilot and series is reminiscent of Blade Runner and closer in spirit to the original…

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Heavens above

While the look of the big yellow box hasn’t changed in eons and the toasted o’s inside are still pretty much the same, Cheerios’ latest on-screen presence will certainly capture movie-goers’ attention….

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On set: Top of the Food Chain

The church windows are boarded-up. Homes and shops bear ‘Closed’ or ‘Out of Business’ signs. An old weather-beaten banner draped across the main street reads, ‘Welcome To Exceptional Vista,’ an isolated, stagnant little North American town forgotten by time. It’s the…

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Atlantic Scene: Ship race project a tall order for Ad Vantage Productions

Ad Vantage Productions is setting sail on a huge project called Tall Ships 2000….

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Special Report on Cinematographer’s Tools: New stocks improve effects

Seamless, no-nonsense, time-saving special effects are the focus of Ilford’s and Kodak’s latest motion picture film stocks while Fuji improves on its already existing products….

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Storyboards: Once upon a beer

Imported Artists director Richard D’Alessio and Bozell take a look back at the good old days in three new, yet nostalgic, spots for Carlsberg beer….

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Special Report on the 3rd Annual First Cut Awards: Brown: challenging Cdn. conservatism

Phil Brown draws directorial inspiration from tv, movies and a small notebook he keeps close by to record quirky little day-to-day events, in hopes that something from its pages will be incorporated into a commercial….

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Special Report on the 3rd Annual First Cut Awards: Massey makes cut a second time

Although things have been somewhat quiet for the past month or two, it’s been a crazy couple of years for Toronto native and second-time First Cut winner Adam Massey….

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Special Report on the 3rd Annual First Cut Awards: Scott: branching out from music videos

Stephen Scott, one of the country’s top music video directors, was a winner at last year’s MuchMusic Video Awards. Now, just a year after joining the roster at Rave Films, he’s in the spotlight again – this time for his commercials….