Pam Swedko

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Vancouver International Film Festival: Euro Day highlights Trade Forum

Celebrating the successes of film and television producers who maintain their creative sovereignty, this year’s 12th annual Film and Television Trade Forum honors those who can proudly say ‘I Did It My Way.’…

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Toronto International Film Festival 1997 Daily Playback: Onward and westward to the Vancouver fest

It is the last of three large film festivals in Canada, yet the Vancouver International Film Festival still manages to showcase a substantial number of premieres….

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On set with The Third Twin

Visual effects supervisor Tom Turnbull sets up his motion-control unit in the elegantly decorated and vast foyer of the Mississauga Civic Center, which on this particular day doubles as a Philadelphia hotel convention room where The Lansmann Company will buy out…

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Going dotty

A dot bounces around a radio dial reacting to the different music it hears, screaming at things it likes, wilting at the corny stuff, and at one point falling off the dial with boredom in a new animated spot from Montreal’s…

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Toronto International Film Festival: Hayseed

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Toronto International Film Festival: Guy Maddin: Waiting For Twilight

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Toronto International Film Festival: Permission

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The Genius brings the past alive

As a young boy, Josh Miller fantasized about transporting one of his musical mentors like Beethoven or Mozart into the present, and although he couldn’t make it a reality for himself, he did find a way to make it happen for…

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Storyboards: Hands-on

Bozfilm animators David Bowes and Lisa Jane Gray are confident that their new spot for financial lending institution Aaron Acceptance looks pretty cool….

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On set: Hairy Bird

One by one five young ladies quietly and cautiously file out of a linen closet, their secret meeting place at their home-away-from-home, Miss Godard’s School For Girls, the setting for the Alliance Communications/ Redeemable Features production The Hairy Bird….

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Hitting The Screens

Almost a year after its showing at the Perspective Canada section of the Toronto International Film Festival, Deepa Mehta’s feature film Fire is coming back to the screen….

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Storyboards

Aviator Pictures director Cliff Skelton spent many a summer night sitting in front of his television fast-forwarding through some classic black-and-white science-fiction b movies from the 1950s trying to pick up on how to achieve that dated and unprofessional look for…