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Direct This – Cosimo Zitanbi
With this issue, Playback introduces Direct This, a new feature focusing in on directors, established, up-and-coming and reinvented. Send suggestions to Pamela Swedko: fax (416) 408-0870; e-mail: pswedko@brunico.com….
Roadhouse seeking int’l. spot service work
The attractiveness of Canada as a shooting location for long-format tv shows and feature films has pretty much become an accepted industry fact….
Kemp launches new T.O. shop
Executive producer Cindy Kemp has returned to her native Toronto to set up a new production entity, Palooka Films….
Harvey snags 3 Raptors
The Players Film Company director Carl Harvey shot three days for the Toronto Raptors out of Echo Advertising. The three :30s were lensed by Bongo and Al MacPherson. Brian Williams handled the cut at Panic & Bob….
News Briefs
*Banff to fete ARTE…
The Producers: Bette Minott Tribute
Behind Canadian Airlines, ‘I chequed my notebook’…
She gets the spot that’s in your head
Once a producer always a producer….
One on One with Bette Minott
By Louise Cameron…
Always one step ahead
If 20 years is a long time, then 20 years in broadcast production must be an eternity. In fact, a tribute in a newspaper (nothing against Playback, a fine publication in its own right) is not nearly enough. I suggest an…
Career At A Glance
1968…
Copps: no budget support
Heritage Minister Sheila Copps has apparently struck out in a bid to have support for $50 million of federal money allocated for a feature film fund written into the upcoming budget….
Foreign actor tax in limbo
Vancouver: Federal Revenue Minister Herb Dhaliwal granted a one-year reprieve against stepped-up taxation on foreign actors – a move that promised to devastate the Canadian service production industry….
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