Pam Swedko

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New system will aid royalty collection

Producers and distributors may have a new weapon in the fight against unauthorized screenings or broadcasts of their works….

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Planet3 opens in Vancouver

Planet3, a new film and television post-production boutique, is looking to make its mark on the Vancouver scene one client at a time….

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On set with The City

Tales of the people and personalities of Toronto told from both sides of the tracks come together in ctv’s new dramatic series The City (formerly Flesh & Blood)….

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Canadian’s $2.5M flight

Canadian Airlines has taken flight with a pool of new spots boasting a rather generous production budget….

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CFC shorts shop France

The Canadian Film Centre will introduce a series of short films by Canadian filmmakers to the international community at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, marking the first time an English-Canadian film organization has had a presence at the marketplace….

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Harbour kaput, Fogbound dormant

Fogbound Films’ Black Harbour has been canceled, marking the end of a series and a partnership….

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First New Brunswick television series before the cameras

Production is underway on New Brunswick’s first television series, Daring & Grace (formerly Dick & Tracy), a project which sparked controversy among local producers last fall after receiving $260,000, reportedly 38% of Film nb’s budget for the year….

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CFC TV writing program begins

Prime Time, the Canadian Film Centre’s television resident program, kicked off January 11 with three broadcasters, four showrunners and 15 new writers ready to learn the craft with a hands-on approach….

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Maxair spots take off

Hundreds of barking seals lounge around in an icy coliseum and a jet blasts through a young guy’s nose in a two-spot international campaign revealing the intense vapor powers of Warner Lambert’s new maxair gum….

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Soho drawing int’l clients

Since opening its doors two years ago, Soho Digital Film has been making innovations in the area of high resolution film scanning, recording and video to film conversion for the motion picture industry. Although it is a small shop operating out…

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Cellar Door, Catalyst ink deal

Prince Edward Island’s Cellar Door Productions and Toronto-based Catalyst Entertainment have entered into a development deal with Teletoon to turn the half-hour Christmas special The True Meaning of Crumbfest into a 13-part series….

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Wrabbit had genesis in bedtime story

What started as a spur-of-the-moment bedtime story for animator John Weldon’s young daughter has been transformed into the Genie-nominated Frank The Wrabbit, a nine-minute National Film Board animated short featuring a philosophizing wrabbit….