Combining their skills as a cabinetmaker and a biomedical engineer with a lot of imagination and experience, Jason Ehl and Di Brown have ventured out on their own to form Backbone Special Effects….

With two Avids and two Jaleos occupying their comfortably decorated ‘nouveau’ suites, the gang at Toronto’s Optix are making room for a brand new system coming all the way from the Canary Islands ­ The Jaleo Octane….

While it was summer in the rest of the country, snow blankets and white foam covered an Uxbridge, Ont. street corner in mid-July, creating a winter setting for Saul Rubinek’s feature film directorial debut Tom & Jerry….

Toronto’s Videogenic has built a solid reputation as a test commercial production and post house since opening its doors in 1980. But its move into commercial production eight years ago has remained one of the company’s best kept secrets….

Using a combination of stock footage and blue-screen elements, Panic & Bob editor David Baxter managed to take two tots around the world in a Chevrolet Malibu without ever leaving the Toronto studio….

Fed up with working as an assistant director on music videos and a few television spots in his home of Mexico City, Javier decided three years ago that it was time to direct some things of his own, packed his bags…

As a 20-year-old stills photographer, Mark Mainguy traveled around the globe snapping shots of everything from the Pope in the Vatican to polar bears in the Arctic….

While many young Canadian boys dream about winning the Stanley Cup, a young Adam Massey envisioned himself on a movie set running the show….

One of the first things David D’erksen remembers learning in film school was to avoid making movies with children or animals or period pieces, the three most time-consuming elements in film production….

Taking flight over the u.s. airwaves in early June, Spin Productions’ spot for Midwest Express Airlines features hand-drawn doodles coming to life….

Alliance lowers the checkered flag on a new and original dramatic series set in the behind-the-scenes world of professional stock car racing….

Loaded with laser weapon and full of fiery explosions and hostile enemy ships, Deepwater Black, Empire Entertainment’s new live-action/3D animation sci-fi series with ytv and USA Networks, has kept the in-house cgi department busy around the clock and lacking in ‘cryo’…