Ingrid Veninger is a filmmaker and actor

I am disappointed at how the IATSE is characterized in your ‘Chalifour settles in at AQTIS’ article (Playback Daily, April 13). You refer to the IATSE as ‘a union based in the U.S.’ We are proud of our long history in Canada; our first Canadian local (Local 56) was chartered in Montreal in 1898. Since then we have grown to represent over 16,000 members employed in Canada’s stagecraft, motion picture and television, and trade show industries.

– Toronto Film Studios will see some business in the near future, but not show business. The once-thriving, now-neglected soundstage at 629 Eastern Avenue in the city’s port area has reportedly been earmarked as a temporary jail. According to news reports, TFS will be used to hold and process protestors during the upcoming G20 Summit in June if, as some expect, there are mass arrests. The site and its 16 soundstages are just a few kilometers from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, where leaders from the world’s top 20 economic powers will meet June 26 and 27.

CIS Visual Effects Group is expanding its business Down Under with the acquisition of Australian visual effects house Postmodern Sydney. The Sydney studio will continue to operate under the Postmodern banner with the same key personnel and out of the same office. CIS, which has studios in Vancouver and Los Angeles, plans to expand the office later this year.

Production on South Africa/Canada copro gets underway on May 31

Feature based on seminal sci-fi book among projects okayed by Harold Greenberg Fund

Gandolfini hails Taxi 22, Rohmer steps down at CP24 and Tierney takes a crack at adapting Doris Lessing — with a dash of FLQ

John Walker’s doc watches master musicians teach the next generation

Former NFB commissioner strengthened ties to Quebec film sector

Katherine Wolfgang crosses over from Discovery to head communications

Faced with hard times, rival post shops come together to run film lab

Exec in charge of radio, print and TV divisions plans to retire once successor is found