The desire to create an enormous multifaceted production and post resource for a wide range of clients, and a strong creative, technical and personal fit has formed the basis of a strategic alliance between Toronto’s Dan Krech Productions and Atlanta’s Crawford…

Aside from a brisk business year, Toronto-based program delivery company International Image is reporting the release of a new electronic alternative for producers formatting shows for the international marketplace….

Toronto-based Cinram, a manufacturer of prerecorded multimedia products, and Santa Monica, California-based Pacific Ocean Post have joined forces in the creation of the Cinram-POP DVD Center….

Roughly four months after it opened its doors downstairs from Soho Post and Graphics, Soho Digital Film has introduced a new solution for transferring video to film….

Imported Artists founder Christina Ford, director Richard D’Alessio and former Kids in the Hall producer Jeff Berman have hung the shingle for a new film and television production company, Clarence Square Pictures….

Love the business. It’s the motto of L.T.B. Productions founder Wayne Fenske and the bottom line of the message the eponymously-acronymed company is putting out anew to the ad community. The company is undertaking a reorientation to re-emphasize the core philosophy…

At Imported Artists, Richard D’Alessio directed three days in Chiliwack, b.c. for Molson Old Style Pilsner out of MacLaren McCann. dop was Simon Mestel and executive producer was Christina Ford. The eight spots – one 120-second, two 30s and five 15s…

Won over by her Marilyn Manson clip work, David Bowie’s latest video was directed by Partners’ Floria Sigismondi for u.s.-based U Ground Films. Sigismondi brought the complex Little Wonder special post effects project to Toronto’s Mad Dog Digital, which joined the…

There’s a strange looking bunch at the gate. Sexy bloodsuckers vs. a clean livin’ group in period dress; hotshot downtown upstarts vs. those who live above the tree line. And then there’s a red, white and blue flavored Mountie….

In year number 11, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television is confident that the recipe for the Gemini Awards works. Like they say at Chevrolet, the formula is ‘Tried, Tested and True.’…

CBC annually dominates the Geminis in the arenas of news and current affairs. No surprises there and, predictably, this year there’s more of the same. The National/CBC News alone has 15 nominations, and the fifth estate has 10. To scan the…

When director/producer Ric Esther Bienstock got the call about an ebola outbreak in Zaire days before the story hit the press, she phoned Elliott Halpern and Simcha Jacobovici at Toronto’s Associated Producers whom she had worked with on The Plague Monkeys,…