Imported Artists director/dop Robin Willis captured quirky people on the beach and in the fields talking about Bell’s savings plan on a four-day job through Leo Burnett. David Hicks edited at Panic & Bob and Ted Rosnick of Rosnick MacKinnon recorded…

Still beaming from The Tale Of Teeka’s (L’Histoire De l’oie) double win for best children’s tv program and best independent English-Canadian program at the 1998 Banff Television Festival, Toronto’s Triptych Media is in development on a number of theatrical and tv…

Montreal: Claude Fournier is directing a sterling cast in the 10-hour Rose Films series Juliette Pomerleau, adapted from Yves Beauchemin’s best-selling novel. Leads include Brigitte Boucher, Macha Grenon, William Honce and Benoit Briere….

Vancouver: It isn’t the show that shot the pilot in Vancouver or the show with the Canadian lead. Lions Gate Entertainment division Mandalay Television will produce Mercy Point, a one-hour sci-fi medical drama for upn, in Vancouver….

For the final installment of the Honeycomb campaign featuring the crazed Craver, Toronto’s TOPIX/Mad Dog faced the challenge of making the live-action stars of the spots seamlessly become that manic, furry embodiment of a young person’s yearning for the sweet cereal….

Intergraph Computer Systems, working in conjunction with software maker Kinetix, has taken up residence in the TOPIX/Mad Dog building in Toronto where it will set up an industry resource center this month for training and educational development….

THE BRIEF…

There was no great spasm of incredulity amongst judges or anyone else when it was announced that Eddy Chu of Radke Films took top spot at the third annual Saatchi & Saatchi/Playback First Cut Awards for new directors….

Terry Balagia…

Phil Brown draws directorial inspiration from tv, movies and a small notebook he keeps close by to record quirky little day-to-day events, in hopes that something from its pages will be incorporated into a commercial….

Although things have been somewhat quiet for the past month or two, it’s been a crazy couple of years for Toronto native and second-time First Cut winner Adam Massey….

Revolver Films’ Geoff Ayres is among this year’s First Cut honorees for whom the top-five plaque will not be the only hardware sitting atop the mantle at home. Ayres already has a gold BDA Award to his credit from his early…