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Word: Bucolic film shoot ends in fight scene
What do you get when you combine a small town in Southern Ontario tobacco country, a local kick-boxing champion long on lab-processed testosterone but short on manners, a gaggle of city-dwelling, white-pants-wearing film fairies and a little grain-based lubrication? As Spy…
News Brief: Rest Stop
Former Partners’ Film Company director Eliza Berry has presold her latest short, Rest Stop, to the cbc….
Commercial Directions: D’Amico and Fannin get Life
Ron Baxter Smith of Kessler Irish Films shot and directed a 30-second spot for Searle Canada through Ranscombe & Company/Healthwise. Chameleon’s Andy Attalai edited. Also at Kessler Irish, director David Strupp wrapped a day for Mix 99.9, with Doug Koch the…
Storyboards: Art nouveau
Over the next month, expect to hear reports of art gallery attendance soaring to phenomenal levels….
Four French-track services get the nod
Montreal: On the French-track side, the crtc has licensed teletoon (Family Channel/ytv/Cinar Films/Nelvana), Radiomutuel’s La Canal Vie, the Radiomutuel/chum channel Musimax and Tele-Metropole’s La Canal Nouvelles, all to be carried on basic or extended basic at ‘high (85%) penetration levels.’…
Ontario Scene: Lacewood jumps from kids’ fare to late night
Well it’s not Ralph Benmergui, but Ottawa’s Lacewood Productions is in development with the cbc on a pilot for a live-action, late-night, interview format show. Lacewood president Sheldon Wiseman says it’s a combination of in-studio live interviews with a lot of…
Quebec Scene: Kids’ specialists Hood, La Fete shoot coming-of-age feature
Montreal: Midway through six weeks of filming at a rambling turn-of-the-century apple farm in beautiful downtown Rougemont, conditions couldn’t have been rosier for cast and crew on the Productions La Fete feature film Dancing on the Moon….
B.C. Scene: August blooms with over $220K in development, production
Vancouver: The last few weeks of August proved a windfall for Vancouver producers securing development and production money….
Video Design’s numbers game
During the nfl regular season kick-off this year on the Turner Sports Network, viewers were treated to the usual gridiron glory and to a wealth of statistical information, courtesy Toronto’s Video Design….
Network: Short takes on people, things and what’s shaking out there in the prod tech universe
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Special Report: Toronto International Film Festival: It’s a fest, then a market
As the 21st annual Toronto International Film Festival reaches its usual frenzy – as locals skip work to catch a flick while industry types sigh at the box office – the question arises of how to strike the right balance between…
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