Commercial clients’ love affair with animation has only intensified since computers nosed their way into storyboards, adding heightened reality to the fantastical scenarios originally made possible via cel animation….

There are certain job skills in the Canadian animation industry that are always in short supply and high demand. Voice talent? No, ‘lots of that.’ Animation writers? ‘Thanks, there are enough.’…

It’s bitterly cold, raining, and Montreal producer Paul Almond and FFC Completion Guarantees chairman Michael Spencer are bundled in five layers of clothing, trekking through the bushes in Bonaventure Bay. Almond makes a quick survey of some seagulls on the water…

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As of May 28, the French-language envelopes of the CTCPF Equity Investment Program were less encumbered than its English-language counterparts….

Behind Alliance Communications’ best Cannes ever with over $15 million worth of deals closed at market, chairman Robert Lantos along with other Canadian film executives says the grassroots film scene is picking up international momentum….

Television’s greatest crime is that it underestimates its public, says Channel 4’s head of drama David Aukin….

Eight weeks into the ctcpf’s fiscal and there’s trouble at the $200 million funding trough….

Five prospective licensees aired their plans to establish a digital multichannel, multipoint distribution system service for Southern Ontario at crtc hearings held in Toronto May 26-28. The five companies are vying for a licence to provide digital wireless broadcast service to…

‘Kelsey Grammer is playing a character who is surrounded by big food and little children,’ says British director Vadim Jean (Leon the Pig Farmer, Clockwork Mice) between takes at the new Cinesite Studios in Halifax. Jean is in town to direct…

Posting a $1 million increase in net earnings (a per share increase of 4 cents) over the first quarter of 1996, Atlantis is attributing the improvement to ‘improved quality of the production slate’ and lower interest costs….

Two weeks after the winners of Britain’s feature film franchises were announced, startups triggered by the winning bids are beginning to surface while the shutout Canadian players say it’s business as usual in the u.k. territory….