Twenty years ago producer/ director Ira Wohl won the collected nod of every festival jury, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with Best Boy. Now Wohl is looking for a Canadian distributor for the Oscar-winning doc’s sequel, Best…

Simone Urdl has worked on many of Atom Egoyan’s films in roles ranging from producer’s assistant to post-production supervisor, but now she’s ready to produce a feature of her own. Urdl’s hooked up with short filmmaker John Kalangis who’s scripted and…

Ted Kelterborn is a lawyer at the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch and a member of the firm’s KNOWlaw Group….

Paragon Entertainment Corporation has secured a new line of feature film and television production financing worth up to $45 million which will, in part, be available to third party independent producers….

So now what?…

No longer content with being an international magnet for service work, the animation industry here is moving with large, loping strides toward proprietary production, developing shows for Canadian and international broadcast….

Showcasing fresh new talent, this year the Ottawa International Animation Festival will shine the spotlight on the art and imagination of students from around the world….

When u.k.-based animators David Fine and Alison Snowden put their heads together to create Bob and Margaret Fish in 1993 they had no idea their quirky characters would soon be in such high demand….

‘There are Canadians all over the place,’ is one ex-pat’s chilling description of the current u.s. landscape, referring in particular to places like ilm, Pixar, Disney and DreamWorks. It’s not a conspiracy; this country’s animation aspirants have had the benefit of…

To check the pulse of Vancouver’s production community, Playback assembled a group of producers for a roundtable….

When Vancouver Television anchors Aamer Haleem and Ted Schredd take their seats on the oversized toast- and bacon-styled sofas on the set of the inaugural Vancouver Live morning show Sept. 22, it’s quite possible they’ll also be wearing hard hats and…

Integral to Vancouver’s vibrant grassroots film movement is the short-film community, an enthusiastic bunch who are making their names on appetizers before they move on to the entrees….