The Players Film Company’s Philip Mellows has solidified an ongoing relationship with longtime associate Carl Harvey, adding the iconoclastic director to the expanding (and set to keep expanding) roster of the company….

From Axmith McIntyre Wicht – the Toronto agency which suggested Ontario was ours to discover in the ’80s – and The Players Film Company director/cameraman Henry Less, come four energetic new spots for Ontario Tourism featuring beautiful landscapes, breathtaking sunsets and…

In Canada, teletoon has offered a skedful of animated slot opportunity, and internationally, the potential foster homes for toons have also been busily populating the dial….

Older skews, edgier styles and generally more sophisticated graphic design – 2D, 3D, goth animation – are among the trends spotted in the aisles of the mifa animation market in Annecy last month, and confirmed by broadcasters’ upcoming skeds….

With what it sees as general growth in Canadian animation production and an increasing slate of France/Canada coproductions as impetus, Paris-based animation house TouTenKartoon is planning to bring its array of animation production and image processing services to Canada….

It doesn’t always take a genius to attract the financial and creative involvement of a pair of strong international partners and to lead the charge into the wide Saturday morning world of u.s. network tv; a bunch of dumb bunnies have…

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While the attempt by competing u.s. majors to loosen Disney’s stranglehold on the animated feature market is still a work in progress, Canadian animation companies are suddenly much less enthusiastic about the opportunities for independent animated Canadian features….

The Japanese do film business differently than the rest of the world, says Herve Bedard, the first Canadian animator to strike an international coproduction with Japan….

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Home Box Office, the premium American pay cable network, has licensed three Cinar Films animation series slated for the upcoming season: The Adventures of Paddington Bear, coproduced with Protecrea; The Country Mouse and City Mouse Adventures, a Readers Digest presentation produced…

With the help of government incentives and coproduction activities, combined with local enthusiasm and talent, producers in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are beefing up production slates and attracting attention from across the country and around the world….