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MuchMusic hits another party high

You have to wake up pretty early in the afternoon, and perhaps stay up ’til then as well, if you want to throw a better party than the folks at MuchMusic, who once again provided a night of unsurpassed musical entertainment…

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How the small shops do it

With a handful of giant facilities which bestride the audio and post production world like colossi, how do smaller independent companies compete and thrive?…

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Smash: taking control

Toronto’s Smash Editorial was founded in 1995 by editor Barry Farrell to do commercial and feature work. The shop has found a niche in both markets with an approach that focuses on creative accountability and control, although Farrell acknowledges that the…

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Krystal opening new sound facility

Krystal Music and Sound Design recently undertook the construction of a new, from-scratch facility in downtown Toronto which reflects the wide sound capabilities – as well as the design disposition – of the streamlined shop….

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Bullet, Lunchbox burst into Flame

Toronto shop Bullet Digital Post has long offered an array of services to the production industry with a combination of editing facilities and digital video camera rental with its Catchlight component. The shop is now taking that approach to the next…

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Sound Kitchen doing it all

About 20% of the work done at The Sound Kitchen in Vancouver comes from longer-form television work such as documentaries and television series, says co-owner Judy Harnett. Another 30% of the business is claimed by television and radio commercial production work,…

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Canuck F/X help Chucky win Bride

While the idea that a psychotic little doll bent on carnage can find a life partner while you can’t even get a date might be disturbing enough, for Universal/Widwinter Productions feature Bride of Chucky, the homicidal homunculus and the missus were…

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Up & Running: Mixing console hits right note for Access

Steven Cole is president of Access Post Production Audio, Toronto….

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TV hearings: tales from the set

Hull, Que.: Two weeks to go in the Canadian Television Policy Review Hearings and the proceedings have already offered up their share of – believe it or not – entertaining moments. The following are excerpts from the presentations of the lobby…

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With lawsuit settled, Pinewood forges on

A big thorn – in the form of a draining, extended lawsuit – was recently removed from the side of Vancouver’s Pinewood Sound and the shop is now moving forward, with a major slate of projects in the house and an…

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Telegenic selling video enhancer

Toronto-based Telegenic Programs is taking its first steps into the technological domain as the exclusive Canadian representative of a new video/film transfer process known as asiva….

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Stay Tuned Communications: Ready for another 10 years

Stay Tuned Communications: Ready for another 10 years