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Van. DVD company rolls out 7 titles

Vancouver: After the stellar success with its first and, to date, only dvd release – Super Speedway – Vancouver-based Big Picture DVD Productions is set to release seven new dvd titles by the fall….

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Direct This – Rhett Morita

For Big Film Company director/dop Rhett Morita, it’s hard to tell whether being behind a camera is the result of nature or nurture, as the second-generation shooter pretty much grew up around cameras….

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Ex-Dogs at work

TOPIX/Mad Dog’s departed design duo of William Cameron and Robin Len are busily working away under their new banner Gamma Studios. The nascent shop, at 504 Wellington Street in downtown Toronto, is focusing on broadcast design and film title work as…

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Smith scores President’s Choice job

Blink Pictures director Ron Baxter Smith and dop Doug Koch had two days for Starchoice Satellite tv through Leo Burnett. Alex Eaton edited at Stealing Time….

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New RO pumps blood into Ottawa prod scene

Ottawa is not usually the first place people think of when talking about major centers of television production, but that may soon change with the arrival of Citytv affiliate The New ro. The new station is pumping some fresh blood into…

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Aykroyd, Langella cast in new Arcand movie 15 Moments

Montreal: Oscar nominee Dan Aykroyd (Driving Miss Daisy, Grosse Point Blank) and Frank Langella (The Ninth Gate, Lolita) are the most recent cast additions to the new Denys Arcand movie 15 Moments (working title)….

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Nordic coproduction the focus of AFF’s Strategic Partners confab

Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, the Atlantic Film Festival is gearing up for the second Strategic Partners international coproduction conference, Sept. 18-20 in Halifax….

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Monkey shines warm Vancouver production

Vancouver: Snap Shot is the newest family feature from producer Ian Fodie, who last made The Duke, about a dog that inherits an estate. This time, it’s a research chimp who gets lost in Nelson, b.c., finds his way onto a…

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*Martin Short chosen for Banff Comedy Award…

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Pirate: it’s all in the facility

In the world of commercial audio post according to Pirate Radio & Television, it’s the age of the facility – the all-in-one, full-service shop where the ever more rigorous musical and sonic demands of client and agency can be met. But…

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DataLab takes film color digital

The Burbank facility of Vancouver-based Rainmaker Digital Pictures is currently testing and helping to develop a new digital film finishing system that has the potential to, among other things, alter the time-worn process of feature film color correction….

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More than big sound

Masters Workshop has been supplying big sound for the extra big screen since the early ’80s and is now turning its attention to location-based entertainment….