At Vancouver’s bozfilm, director/ dop Bobby Sheehan landed two days for a Health Canada Anti-Smoking contest through Palmer Jarvis Vancouver. Post was handled by Jane Morris at Berry Post….

The Komodo dragon is the newest addition to the Metro Toronto Zoo and in eight new spots by Spy Films he is wreaking havoc on the lives of a peacock, rabbit, pig, hyena and deer….

In the continuing saga of the commercial industry’s Dances with Revenue Canada, it appears the withholding issue may be on hold, at least for now….

What to say about a television commercial where a photocopier turns into a lawnmower? I’m no hi-tech maven but even I know that’s a bit of a morph….

David krystal of Toronto’s Louder Music & Sound Design is a longtime film, tv and commercial music composer/producer and sometime film extra….

Toronto writer/director/assistant editor Tad Seaborn of Inamorata Productions says he felt surprised, overjoyed and then dreadful when he heard he had been awarded $10,000 worth of film stock and camera equipment as the winner of the Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival…

Although the Canadian specialty universe is about to expand exponentially, stepping up competition for both ad dollars and audience share, the incumbents aren’t losing sleep….

Spring ’97…

– Life Net’s fall sked…

For a look at where the competition for viewers will play out this season, Playback went to the some of the specialty channels, new and old, and asked them to put their best individual programs forward in three key target markets….

‘A high-quality animation property will always find a window,’ says Jacques Pettigrew of Montreal’s Cine-Groupe….

The meeting of creative, technical and bottom line considerations ­ the ‘beautiful circle,’ as one animation producer puts it ­ is key to success in the emerging new media field. The convergence of those elements is also enough of a rarity…