From a crop of 283 submissions, composed of 80 features and 203 shorts, a lineup of 20 features and 31 shorts were picked to represent Perspective Canada’s 1997 program….

Aviator Pictures director Cliff Skelton spent many a summer night sitting in front of his television fast-forwarding through some classic black-and-white science-fiction b movies from the 1950s trying to pick up on how to achieve that dated and unprofessional look for…

Generator Video, the newest affiliate of Avion Films, is gearing up for its official opening as a fully digital video production house focusing on corporate and test commercial work….

Kessler Irish Films’ David Strupp directed one day for Bell Canada through bbdo, with James Gardner behind the camera. Bob Kennedy at Flashcut will be handling the edit….

In an engaging spot for its new double-size role of Royale toilet tissue, Procter & Gamble and agency Leo Burnett tell a tale of mystery and suspense. It’s a dark story that hangs over many seemingly happy families, The Mystery of…

Vancouver: Vancouver’s Pacific Motion Pictures’ latest producing effort was on the big screen Aug. 6 at a special sneak preview of Masterminds. The feature, with Patrick Stewart as the terrorist, was executive produced by Matthew O’Connor of pmp for distributor Columbia/Sony/TriStar…

Busy writer Linda Svendsen is adapting Canadian novelist Jane Urqhart’s Away for The Film Works. Production will begin in early spring ’98 on the four-hour, $10-million miniseries, scheduled to air on the cbc in spring 1999, says Film Works vp Paul…

Montreal: Jean Pierre Lefebvre’s portrayal of one man’s passion for flight and the gravity of life that holds him back is the basis of Aujourd’hui ou jamais, the third film in a trilogy which began in 1977. The film completed its…

Combining their skills as a cabinetmaker and a biomedical engineer with a lot of imagination and experience, Jason Ehl and Di Brown have ventured out on their own to form Backbone Special Effects….

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With two Avids and two Jaleos occupying their comfortably decorated ‘nouveau’ suites, the gang at Toronto’s Optix are making room for a brand new system coming all the way from the Canary Islands ­ The Jaleo Octane….

Articulating the state of the equipment nation and a generally applicable principle, Panavision, Toronto, vp Bill Zacharuk sums up: ‘The level of service you have to provide has gone up; the quality and cost of the equipment you have to provide…