‘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….

It is the last of three large film festivals in Canada, yet the Vancouver International Film Festival still manages to showcase a substantial number of premieres….

Celebrating the successes of film and television producers who maintain their creative sovereignty, this year’s 12th annual Film and Television Trade Forum honors those who can proudly say ‘I Did It My Way.’…

The Vancouver International Film Festival and Trade Forum, like their counterparts around the globe, attract a proverbial galaxy of stars and deal makers. Here’s a roundup of some of the people with whom you might like to do lunch:…

Comart Films has come to tiff this year because of the international word of mouth that Toronto is a must-attend event for any art house specialist. The company made the trip from Capetown, South Africa….

From its origins in 1990 as a small New York production company created as a haven for struggling filmmakers, The Shooting Gallery has gone on to produce internationally acclaimed indie films that generate high box office. It’s also gone on to…

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New York-based producers chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, the husband-and-wife team who went behind the scenes of Clinton’s victorious 1996 presidential campaign in Academy Award-nominated The War Room, are at the festival with Moon Over Broadway, a documentary about the trials…

Pierre Brousseau, senior vp of Malofilm/Behaviour’s Quebec distribution operations, was incorrectly identified in yesterday’s edition of Playback Daily….