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New URSA upgrade at DAVE

Toronto’s DAVE (Dome Audio Video & Effects) is offering a new tool for its URSA Gold telecine system and one of the most sought-after talents to operate it….

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Loop, Random form alliance

Two Toronto-based media companies have decided to join forces in the emerging and converging new media and animation industries with a strategic alliance to pool the respective talents of each shop….

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Network: Short takes on people, things and what’s shaking out there in the prod tech universe

– Acura hosts Softimage 3D event…

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B.C. Scene: Tax hit for U.S. producers pushes MOWs to Toronto

Vancouver: Karen Moore, an American television producer who has brought 30 tv movies to Vancouver in the past 13 years, is considering taking her next mow to Toronto, or ‘anywhere I get a waiver.’…

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Ontario Scene: Lacewood alumnus Williams opens new animation co. Boomstone Entertainment

Lacewood Studio’s former vp of production Lee Williams has opened up his own Ottawa animation company, Boomstone Entertainment, with partner Debra Wynter, but the 12-year Lacewood veteran isn’t straying far from his roots….

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Cactus inks deal to rep Mainframe

Vancouver: Commercial creator Cactus Productions has signed a deal with Mainframe Entertainment to represent the commercial skills of the ReBoot series maker throughout the world….

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Commercial Directions: Marr, Willis shoot four days for McDonald’s

Aviator Pictures director David Straiton shot two days in Vancouver for Western Canada Lottery Corporation through Palmer Jarvis Communications. dop was Marcus Elliott and Laurie Case handled post. Pirate Radio in Toronto looked after audio post….

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Story Boards: Flight of fantasy

Taking flight over the u.s. airwaves in early June, Spin Productions’ spot for Midwest Express Airlines features hand-drawn doodles coming to life….

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Production In Atlantic Canada: Atlantic industry comes into its own

Over the past year new provincial film development corporations and tax incentives, infrastructure expansion, and beefed-up production slates have been coming in as fast as Atlantic Canada’s changing tide as the region’s film and television industry seeks to grow and diversify….

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Production In Atlantic Canada: Topsail bets on Bette for comedy

Codco, This Hour Has 22 Minutes…the Atlantic region’s ability to tickle the country’s collective funny bone is one of its claims to fame and in addition to the series supplied by Salter Street Films, local producers have a new crop of…

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Production In Atlantic Canada: Animation: the big picture

‘Animation is the busiest genre around here,’ says established feature film producer Chris Zimmer, and on the heels of his Cannes award-winning Love and Death on Long Island he’s getting in on the action with the animated editorial cartoon series Politoons….