Michael McCabe is president of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters….

Amsterdam: The ‘Hit Man’ was a hit….

With 1997 officially noted as a year of plenty for the commercial production industry – many recorded their busiest year ever – Canadian production and post shops proved themselves a fecund lot, spawning a large number of subsidiary operations….

Discreet Logic has announced an agreement to buy Lightscape Technologies of San Jose, California, the producer of an advanced Microsoft Windows-based realtime rendering and lighting software technology primarily used in the creation of virtual sets….

In a curious but auspicious twist of our market-is-their-market fate, Jerry and Tom, a Canadian filmmaker’s debut, is one of the fiction picks in the Independent Feature Film Competition – a selection of premiering American features – at the 1998 Sundance…

*Paragon/HandMade U.K. shoot underway…

the year that was…

Former Skyvision executives Howard Rosen and Albert Botha have emerged to form Roadhouse Productions, a new Toronto-based service and production company promising forays into a varied array of film and tv genres for service and/or production….

Bravo!fact, a fund sponsored by Bravo! specialty channel, has announced its latest round of awards, which offer up to 50% of the production costs (capped at $25,000) of two- to six-minute arts videos covering a variety of disciplines….

Montreal: Because the subject matter of the four-hour documentary series The War of 1812 is pre-film history, and effectively precludes the use of archival footage, director/writer Brian McKenna says it has been necessary to create an almost entirely original canvas in…

The unions and guilds representing the Canadian industry’s craftspeople have their ear to the ground on a wide range of policies affecting their membership. In their efforts to protect their constituencies, these organizations wrangle numerous issues and sound the alarm when…

*Christmas presence for Atlantis’ Borrowed Hearts…