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Foreign services unlikely ESL candidates

A decision isn’t expected for a fortnight but word is that requests to the crtc for comprehensive additions to The Eligible Services Lists have hit the wall running….

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Openings: Intimate gets eyeballs

Paragon Entertainment’s HandMade Films’ Intimate Relations opened June 6 across Canada (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Victoria, Ottawa), distributed by CFP. Total gross to date rings in at $54,000 and the film, by first-time writer/ director Philip Goodhew, is currently holding on five…

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Producers to pay union dues

Montreal: Quebec’s craft and performers associations are applauding new government legislation which they say will speed up negotiations with film and tv producers….

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Video Innovations: Enigma carves its niche

Vancouver: Despite its corporate name, there is nothing perplexing or ambiguous about Enigma Animation Productions’ business plan….

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PRC group to return in fall

Montreal: With Canada-China coproduction relations in the deep freeze, a recent visit to Canada by two high-profile People’s Republic of China delegations is seen as the hoped for first step in a mutually beneficial thaw….

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Video Innovations: Microwave video systems: look ma, no wires!

Panavision Canada has a new wireless microwave video receiver system for rent, and their camera department assistant manager Scott MacDonald thinks the applications for the system will ‘be limited only by imagination.’ The Dynapix triad multi receiver diversity system promises to…

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CFC wraps, Paybacks premiers

It was commencement night June 16 for this year’s crop of Canadian Film Centre residents who premiered their short dramas at Toronto’s Uptown Theatre and thanked the production community for their support with the first annual Payback Awards, sponsored by Playback….

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Video Innovations: Dust off your rabbit ears: HDTV is on its way

Bill Roberts is general secretary of the North American National Broadcasters Association….

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Video Innovations: The pros and cons of motion capture

since motion capture emerged as an exciting possibility for time-crunched animation projects, there have been a seemingly equal number of detractors and proponents of the process. Using optical or magnetic systems to capture data from a live or robotic actor means…

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European coproduction events promise access

MONTREAL: Canadian producers are being handed yet another sterling opportunity to network in the U.K., this time with leading commissioning editors and producers in the children’s and animation sectors….