Film purists take heed. This is not a story about the preeminence of celluloid. This is the story of how digital video allowed two filmmakers and Canada’s top film studies program to take a good script and make the best movie…

Canada will be hdtv ready within a year after u.s. networks get up full-steam with their digital broadcasts, says Canada’s top digital tv expert. The problem is no one can tell for sure when that will be….

Even as industry insiders question the likelihood of u.s. broadcasters meeting a 2002 deadline to be fully operational in digital television, Canada is showing signs that it is picking up speed on the road to dtv….

Avid Technology of Tewksbury, Mass., has announced a restructuring plan which will see the leading developer of post equipment and software cut its staff by 200 worldwide, saving the company about $20 million next year….

When it launched into production of a new series of spots for Vu!, Bell Express Vu’s pay-per-view package, the creative team behind the ads had a simple goal in mind: to create a strong visual message for the brand using abstract…

Bell ExpressVu president and ceo Michael Neuman is quitting the satellite tv service to head up a u.k.-based start-up telecom company. Bell ExpressVu has appointed coo David McLennan to take over Neuman’s duties in the interim….

When David Paperny began preproduction on his documentary Murder in Normandy, he was put in touch with the curator of the Normandy Museum in Bayeux, France….

CBC is taking its cyberset to primetime….

*Maya plug-in creates hand-drawn look for 3D…

Ottawa: Two years might be enough for the International Student Animation Festival (safo), says festival director Chris Robinson….

Striking Toronto Symphony Orchestra members got a respite from the picket line in early October when they were recruited by Manta Eastern Sound to recreate the music behind opera virtuoso Mario Lanza for an upcoming movie about the tenor’s life and…

*Two series finish online…