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F/X Files How’d they do that – Spin
There were no moral issues, only technical ones, when Toronto’s Spin Productions helped clone a dancing cheese enthusiast not one but three times for a recent spot for Kraft Deluxe Macaroni and Cheese produced by Arf & Company in Hoboken, New…
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Ontario Scene: It’s raining catz and dogz at Wiseman’s Amberwood
Sheldon Wiseman, former president/owner of Ottawa’s Lacewood Animation, is back with a new series out of his toon prodco Amberwood Entertainment….
B.C. Scene: TV pilot season warms up with four new series pilots
Vancouver: El Nino has hit Vancouver as the production climate warms with the promise of at least three series pilots in March….
Quebec Scene: PolyGram bankrolls romance drama Waking the Dead
Montreal: Academy Award-winning actor Jodie Foster is the exec producer on Waking the Dead, a dramatic love story filming on location here over nine weeks through to April 5….
Special Report on Documentary Production & Distribution: Hot Docs! nominees
Following are the 1998 Hot Docs! nominees. Productions are Canadian unless otherwise stated….
Alberta, Sask. credits on deck
After a long-running lobby effort for provincial tax credits, agency representatives and producers in Alberta and Saskatchewan say new labor incentives for film and television production are in sight….
At Press Time
B.C. Tel was about to unveil its new production fund as Playback went to press….
CTCPF indig perks focus
Indigenous Canadian production got an adrenaline shot this month with the renewal of the $300-million Canada Television and Cable Production Fund and the subsequent release of its revised eligibility criteria….
On set: Such A Long Journey
With four months behind them and three days to go, at the beginning of February, The Film Works producer Paul Stephens has his cell phone turned on as he anxiously awaits news concerning a location crisis, just one of the things…
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