From gaffer to president of Kino Flo, Frieder Hochheim is a classic film biz success story. Based in Sun Valley, California, the Winnipeg native was at Toronto’s Inn on the Park March 17 showcasing his company’s newest fluorescent movie lights, at…

Following a three-year hiatus from the world of commercials, award-winning industry vet Bill Irish is back in the director’s chair….

The Creative House Studios in Saskatoon is gearing up for Christmas a little early. Since the last couple of years in Saskatchewan have been snow-free until well into the new year, director Glen Kerby and dop Darryl Kesslar shot a festive…

Great Big Music is taking a leap into radio with the introduction of Great Big Radio….

Montreal: Producer Nicolas Clermont is back in business as an independent following a full and amicable settlement with Behaviour Communications….

Toronto-based Command Post and Transfer Corporation and Vancouver’s Pacific Video have announced an impending deal whereby public post-production and film lab company Pacific Video will make a takeover bid for 100% of the outstanding securities of privately owned Command Post….

Imported Artists director Richard D’Alessio and dop Simon Mestel are going back into the pages of National Geographic to document the construction of the Panama Canal….

On the public and private funding front, the past year saw the overhaul of the Canadian Television Fund and millions in new money added to the mix: tv movies gained $1 million in annual support from Cogeco Cablesystems; kids’, youth and…

montreal: Coscient Group of Montreal and Chaman Productions of Paris have signed a coproduction deal for the 3D animation feature Gaina. The storylines have been developed in France but much of the actual production, including key animation, lighting, mapping and compositing,…

Montreal: With public funding deadlines coming early this year, Canada’s growing coproduction community arrives at mip-tv more prepared than ever to mix it up at the spring program market….

Montreal: Coscient Group is raising the stakes in its English-language drama division with a three-pack slate of tv movies commissioned by ctv, Citytv/chum and Global. The films are in the production financing phase and slated to shoot later this summer and…

Canadian producers are seeking $36 million more from this year’s Canadian Television Fund than they did from last year’s heavily oversubscribed ctcpf. Adding to the industry’s already anxious state is the fact that the ctf’s operating budget, which has yet to…