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…

Stephen Scott, one of the country’s top music video directors, was a winner at last year’s MuchMusic Video Awards. Now, just a year after joining the roster at Rave Films, he’s in the spotlight again – this time for his commercials….

Spy Films director jeff eamer is last year’s First Cut winner and recipient of a trip to last month’s Cannes International Advertising Festival. Playback asked him to pen his experiences on the trip….

Beyond assembling an eye-catching reel, there are innumerable factors that go into building a director’s career. These factors can include on-set mo, creative and personal approach to boards and agency relationships….

Terry Balagia, executive creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, Toronto, was one of the judges at this year’s First Cut Awards….

The music was the first thing Tim Burns set to work on when he began adapting Mordecai Richler’s classic kids’ tale Jacob Two-Two Meets The Hooded Fang for the big screen….

To stimulate the recording of music for film and television in Canada and provide producers with a simpler set of rules, the American Federation of Musicians recently forged a new Canadian Film Production Agreement….

Gilles Valiquette was elected socan president for a two-year term ending in the year 2000 at the society’s annual general meeting held recently in Toronto. First elected to socan’s board of directors in 1992, he’s well aware that the leadership role…

Veteran sound engineer David Beare thinks location sound is too often treated as an afterthought by commercial production companies and directors alike. So Beare is developing a new system through his company, Camp David, that promises to handle commercial production sound…

David Kent is a litigation partner and a member of the KNOWlaw and Competition groups in the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch. He represented the Canadian Association of Broadcasters in the Copyright Board hearings described in this article….

Ralph Cole, former member of the band Lighthouse and founding partner of Harris Cole Productions, has opened a new sound and music production house with partner Joan McArthur, an experienced radio writer and producer….

When it came to directing his sound and music collaborators, DaVinci’s Inquest creator Chris Haddock made only two demands: make the coroner series sound like its hometown Vancouver and keep it innovative….