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Soho creates new look for HNIC

Capping off a summer brimming with broadcast design projects, Toronto’s Soho Post & Graphics recently turned its attention to a Canadian institution, creating the new look for Hockey Night in Canada….

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:30 – Wayne Craig

Wayne Craig started his career as a late-night dj spinning country tunes and delivering the marine report. Drawing on his childhood love for tv, he moved into the world of commercials as a production manager for Imported Artists, where his name…

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Winter shoots leather spot

The Partners’ Film Company director/dop Greg Winter shot four days for Wilsons Leather out of Martin Williams. Post was handled in the u.s….

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Industrious new shop scores Labatt

The recently birthed new player in town, Industry Films, has hit the ground running with a new pair of spots for Labatt and work underway on King Street digs….

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Davies hopes for good luck with Goddess

Following years of research on her docudrama Kitchen Goddess, Halifax filmmaker Donna Davies has very few questions about what her future holds….

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Picture This doc examines infidelity

Montreal: Filmmakers Maureen Marovitch and David Finch of Picture This Productions are about two-thirds through When Two Won’t Do, a feature-length documentary on people seeking alternatives to monogamy….

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Accent to get Twitchy again

Current ‘It Boy’ Don McKellar confirms that seven more episodes of his quirky sitcom Twitch City will go before the cameras in Toronto this January for Susan Cavan’s Accent Entertainment….

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Zacharia Farted invited to L.A.

Vancouver: Zacharia Farted, a locally made road movie that created a lot of buzz during the Vancouver International Film Festival, has been invited to screen at the American Film Institute’s Los Angles International Film Festival on Oct. 23. It is scheduled…

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Broadcasting ’98: Making the most of the new realities

Vancouver’s Trade and Convention Centre will host an estimated 15,000 representatives from the broadcast and television production industries Nov. 1-3 at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters annual convention, Broadcasting ’98….

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Challenges for regional casters

As the broadcast landscape evolves, private station groups such as WIC Western International Communications, Craig Broadcasting and the CHUM Group are capitalizing on the holes in local news programming, while educational broadcasters are finding an increased role as outlets for regional…

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Educational TV group lobbies for changes to CTF

ACCESS, Tele-Quebec, Television Northern Canada and tvontario, scn and Knowledge Network have joined in a lobby group, the Association for Tele-Education in Canada, which is pressing for some major changes in the Canadian Television Fund’s funding guidelines to recognize educational broadcasters…

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Alberta mulls new film grant program

Vancouver: It might look like a tax credit, but it ain’t. That’s the word on the proposed grant program that is expected to be offered to incentive-starved producers in Alberta in the next provincial budget….