A labor-based tax credit for the Prince Edward Island film and tv industry has made it through a first sitting of the provincial legislature and will likely be implemented by April of 2000, says Enterprise PEI film commissioner Berni Wood. Specifics,…

Glamorous jobs in feature-length animated films have dried up for recently graduated…

A small school in an unlikely place, the TSB School of Animation, is training students in animation using a more artistic approach….

In 1994, Mainframe Entertainment was the only game in town. For two years, the British/Canadian alliance that spawned ReBoot did not face much competition in the television marketplace. Its closest rival at that time was Fantome Animation in France, the company…

The clay creatures, puppets and articulated models of stop-frame animation, while long welcomed in the u.k. and Eastern Europe, have often been turned away from North America’s door by a public weaned on Disney’s cel animation. Differences between time slot lengths…

Peter Chung, character designer for the series Alexander, disapproves of the term ‘anime.’ The animator who brought an anime stylized look to mtv with Aeon Flux says the term anime is used incorrectly. ‘Anime is the Japanese phonetic abbreviation for animation,…

Animator/director Steve Hillman, cofounder of Toronto’s Optical Assembly, is branching out and starting a new production facility, Exhibita, where he assumes the title of director. Starting in July, Hillman’s commercial production, special effects and production design ventures will operate out of…

Cineplex Odeon Corp. has released details and submission deadlines for the Cineplex Odeon Feature Film Marketing Fund, which is committing $3.75 million to Canadian distributors over for the promotion of Canadian features….

A 30-hour documentary mega-project, Canada: A People’s History, is among the highlights of cbc’s 1999/2000 season lineup, which also includes four new drama and three comedy series and a slate of nine tv movies….

Coming soon to a broadcaster near you, the docusoap has finally arrived in Canada….

It’s the second season of The Famous Jett Jackson, episode five, day three, and there on set at a baseball diamond in Markham Ont. stands Eartha Kitt, clad in a yellow baseball uniform and poised like a ballerina….

Montreal: The crtc has licensed four new French-language specialty channels, in history, science and technology, travel, and drama. The new channels were given seven-year licence terms and will be distributed as part of a second discretionary tier, effective Jan. 10, 2000….