In a rare case of campaign sharing – creative control by spot directors and creative risk taking by a client – Spy Films’ Jeff Eamer and The Players Film Company’s David McNally recently collaborated on the writing and directing of a…

A young man arrives at the doctor with an unusual malfunction in his hand, which is diagnosed as a severe case of Boredom Twitch Syndrome, a result of too much channel surfing, for which the doctor prescribes Star Choice Digital Satellite…

*Empire video for Creed…

Montreal: Discreet Logic has started to ship a new online nonlinear editing product called Smoke, a tool-enhanced system designed for video online finishing with some of the Flame effects power associated with Fire….

In the wake of the specialty channel post mortem Nov. 24, word is expected from the crtc that hearings on the next round of specialty channel applications have been postponed until the first quarter of 1999….

The Ontario government announced Nov. 17th that it will introduce an 11% refundable tax credit on Ontario wages for production services companies producing projects which qualify for the new federal film or video production services tax credit. Legislation will be included…

Deciphering the ratings data coming from the networks is no walk in the park. Baton supplies audience numbers for Ontario. Global and wic offer ratings for the Toronto/Hamilton graph, and cbc and ctv get total audience figures for the whole country….

‘We literally had to hop, skip and jump across the country,’ says producer Virginia Thompson of the havoc unstable provincial funding mechanisms played during the four-year effort to bring The Incredible Story Studio to the small screen. The launch is slotted…

Details remain sketchy, but Playback has learned that tvontario’s bid to form an independent not-for-profit corporation reportedly includes a distribution and marketing partnership with the private sector which names Atlantis Communications and Discovery Channel parent Netstar Communications as contenders for the…

The fourth run of MIP-Asia is set to go Dec. 4-6 in Hong Kong with eight Canadian stands booked as of Playback press time. The number is relatively unchanged from last year’s nine booths, reflecting a hung jury on the benefits…

Vancouver: Not long ago, Vancouver multimedia company Motion Works was regarded as one of the pioneering companies in the new, shiny cd-rom outback. But it had somehow lost its map and wandered around for years buffeted by internal strife, hype, ego…

Softimage|ds, the long-awaited and all-encompassing nt online environment from the 3D software giant, has been in beta since early this year, and if reports from beta testers like Calgary’s White Iron Digital prove conclusive, the system has the potential to affect…