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Who’s who: the CGI kingpins

In 1982, striking animators at Warner Bros. studio in Los Angeles waved picket signs to protest against the rising tide of Canadian animators on their shores. The protesters won the battle but not the war. Since the animation boom of the…

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Soho drawing int’l clients

Since opening its doors two years ago, Soho Digital Film has been making innovations in the area of high resolution film scanning, recording and video to film conversion for the motion picture industry. Although it is a small shop operating out…

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Cuppa Coffee focusing on kids

With natpe opening in New Orleans Jan. 25, pages 33-35 look at some of the new projects coming from Cuppa Coffee Animation, Evening Sky Entertainment, Catalyst Entertainment and Calibre Digital Pictures….

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Evening Sky lands series

With natpe opening in New Orleans Jan. 25, pages 33-35 look at some of the new projects coming from Cuppa Coffee Animation, Evening Sky Entertainment, Catalyst Entertainment and Calibre Digital Pictures….

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Catalyst’s Racoons enjoying new life

With natpe opening in New Orleans Jan. 25, pages 33-35 look at some of the new projects coming from Cuppa Coffee Animation, Evening Sky Entertainment, Catalyst Entertainment and Calibre Digital Pictures….

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Calibre ramping up proprietary projects

With natpe opening in New Orleans Jan. 25, pages 33-35 look at some of the new projects coming from Cuppa Coffee Animation, Evening Sky Entertainment, Catalyst Entertainment and Calibre Digital Pictures….

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Cdns. chasing high definition TV

As the dawn of digital high-definition television breaks over the land, there will doubtless rise a high chorus of ooohs and aaahs. But those utterances will be inspired not only by the breathtakingly clear picture, the wide-screen vistas, the wonder of…

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Ups and downs: the rollercoaster that was 1998

Simon Chester is a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch. This article was prepared with the assistance of Ted Kelterborn, Bruce McWilliam, David Kent, Kathy Johns and Brian Hilbers….

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Renewal fever hits Canadian television series producers

Vancouver: The producers of Cold Squad have to await the outcome of audience tallies during the January airings to find out whether Baton’s Bill Mustos will okay a third season….

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Allegorical preschool series Cornemuse debuts on T-Q

Montreal: Tele-Quebec is reinforcing its already successful late-afternoon children’s block with the addition of Cornemuse, a live-action preschool series produced by Telefiction….

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Rumours & Boarders on tap as TV series

The creative team behind the long-running cbc radio comedy Rumours and Boarders, has scored a development deal with the national public broadcaster to morph the radio hit into a tv sitcom….

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At Press Time

A number of Canadian films will unspool at the Sundance ’99 Film Festival this January, but none will be in official competition….