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500 attend first RealScreen Documentary Summit

Rats walked away the first winner of The ID, RealScreen’s Award for Innovation in Documentaries, at the first annual RealScreen Summit for documentary filmmakers late last month in Washington, d.c….

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B.C. posts record year

Vancouver: b.c. continued its double-digit volume growth trends in 1998 when it posted another record year….

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Decode’s Watership Down closing to German deal

Montreal: Coproducers Decode Entertainment of Toronto and Alltime Entertainment of London, Eng. have a commitment on an all-media presale deal with a major German client for the 26 half-hour animation series Watership Down. Decode partners Steven DeNure and Neil Court and…

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CP/T’s Vegas mirage

Using 3D model miniatures, a motion-control camera and a slew of visual effects magic, Command Post/toybox has created a non-existent luxury resort in the middle of a real desert….

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Revolver splits spot, music biz

Revolver Films has split the commercial and music video components of its business to handle each area of work separately….

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Direct This – Carl Harvey

It’s past midnight on a weeknight in the mid-80s, and after receiving a rather mysterious note from Propeller Film, the local Toronto advertising community watches in anticipation as David Letterman cuts to a commercial break….

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Blockbuster shoot for Ayres

The Partners’ Film Company director Raymond Bark and dop James Gardner spent five days in South Africa for C&A Clothing through London, Eng. agency The Handley Partnership. Post was handled in London….

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DAVE’s leapin’ lizards invade AC Centre

While it’s no shock to encounter a reptile or two on public transit, Toronto’s dave put a much more startling breed of cretaceous commuters on the Red Rocket in the new opening sequence for the Toronto Raptors which appears above the…

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Y2K – TEOTWAWKI?*

David Kent is a litigation lawyer and a member of the KNOWlaw* and Competition groups and Bruce McWilliam is a technology and telecommunications lawyer and a member of the KNOWlaw group in the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch. Both are part…

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ABC’s $7M Hepburn miniseries spending spring in Montreal

Montreal: u.s. director Steve Robman is filming the biographical, three-hour abc miniseries Audrey Hepburn, with rising talent Jennifer Love-Hewitt (Party of Five, Can’t Hardly Wait) as the legendary English actress (1929-1993). Shooting goes from April 13 to May 29 on the…

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Wilding signs five-year deal with Merv Griffin Entertainment

Vancouver: Gavin Wilding – the Vancouver-based creator of low-budget, high-cleavage b-video fare such as The Raffle, Listen and Stag – has signed a five-year deal to release films in the u.s. through Merv Griffin Entertainment….