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Word: Spy celebrates hot year

In the midst of the stick-to-your-panties dog days, Spy Films maintained its cool with its annual indoor/outdoor summer bash. The music served up by cfny’s Chris Pack was great, the food was abundant, and there was an overall it’s-good-to-be-alive vibe in…

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Zap Proof: Pepsi Generation Next

Move over, competing soft drinks. It’s the Pepsi Generation Next campaign….

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Commercial Directions: CDs helm commercials

At The Partners’ Film Company, director/dop David Wagreich shot three days of Lexus for Team One Advertising. Post is being handled in the u.s….

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Storyboards: Are we there yet?

Using a combination of stock footage and blue-screen elements, Panic & Bob editor David Baxter managed to take two tots around the world in a Chevrolet Malibu without ever leaving the Toronto studio….

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Special Report on Music & Sound: Tight budgets, no time ­ it’s the music biz

‘Sorry, we were delayed in the edit, can you turn over the music in a week?’…

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Special Report on Music & Sound: Foley: ‘Everything we do is weird’

Brian Nimens often has to send contracted employees out to the Nevada desert because that is the only place where you can fire off guns ranging from pistols to bazookas, and set off earth-shattering explosions without disturbing people. Is Brian Nimens…

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Special Report on First Cut Award/Commercial Production: Pete Henderson: Notes from Cannes

As winner of last year’s first annual Saatchi & Saatchi/Playback First Cut Award, Spy Films director Pete Henderson received a trip to the Cannes International Advertising Festival in June and a spot on the Saatchi Showcase reel of new talent which…

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Special Report on First Cut Award/Commercial Production: Eamer: just good storytelling

He said it, he did it. For Spy Films’ Jeff Eamer, it was just a matter of believing when it all started while dining at Miami’s once trendy yet still cool News Cafe two years ago. Pursuing a conversation with an…

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Special Report on First Cut Award/Commercial Production: Gabourie: great performances

Perhaps it’s because he is a direct descendant of Louis Riel that The Partners’ Film Company director Mitch Gabourie has a penchant for getting great performances from actors….

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Special Report on First Cut Award/Commercial Production: Javier Mexican talent finds home in Toronto

Fed up with working as an assistant director on music videos and a few television spots in his home of Mexico City, Javier decided three years ago that it was time to direct some things of his own, packed his bags…

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Special Report on First Cut Award/Commercial Production: Mainguy has the magic touch

As a 20-year-old stills photographer, Mark Mainguy traveled around the globe snapping shots of everything from the Pope in the Vatican to polar bears in the Arctic….

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Special Report on First Cut Award/Commercial Production: Massey: I’m not just comedy

While many young Canadian boys dream about winning the Stanley Cup, a young Adam Massey envisioned himself on a movie set running the show….