In keeping with Visa’s all-you-need theme, Leo Burnett’s New York Festivals Gold-winning spot ‘Vending Machine’ features a gigantic vending machine filled with all kinds of things you don’t need. . . but really, really want….

A strike by 1,800 technical workers at the cbc is disrupting normal programming on both the main network and on Newsworld….

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Seven months after leaving his post as executive director of Film nb, Sam Grana has resurfaced as vp of Toronto-based John N. Smith’s Dunany Productions….

* Peter Classon has been named president and ceo of WIC Western International Communications. Classon succeeds Thomas Peddie effective Feb. 15….

The Partners’ Film Company director Britt Randle has launched his commercial directing career with a New York Festival Silver Award-winning spot to spice up his reel….

What starts off looking like a great cello solo turns out to be an anti-climactic promo for a 25-cent hamburger….

Montreal: TVA International is attending its first program market ever with a presence at the American Film Market, Feb. 25 to March 5. The higher profile is partly motivated by news the original six films over three years deal with Fox…

Montreal: The crtc has set May 1 as the date for mandatory national distribution of the French-language Reseau tva….

Spawned from the sports pages, a 60-second psa recounts a true and tragic tale with hard-hitting visuals urging kids to stay away from drugs….

Montreal: The city’s two largest technical service providers, AstralTech and Groupe Covitec, have merged to create what Astral Communications development vp Jacques Parisien says is ‘the biggest post-production company in Canada.’…

Montreal: Behaviour Distribution is launching Francois Bouvier’s new family film Histoires d’Hiver on 30 screens Feb. 26. Industry buzz around the film has been positive for the past few months, with the release timed for the annual mid-winter school break, says…