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Ontario Scene: Epitome Pictures and primetime together again?

Linda Schuyler of Epitome Pictures (Liberty Street) is building a project which she thinks is ‘perfect for cbc at this critical point.’ The cbc is on board with Schuyler and cocreator Yan Moore (who wrote for Liberty Street and Sullivan’s Road…

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B.C. Scene: Mo’ MOWs: Flurry of features hits the West Coast

Vancouver: The West Coast is thick with television movies, with no less than nine mows and miniseries listed on the current film list from the B.C. Film Commission….

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Quebec Scene: Cinar, WQED, NHK team for Rinko

Montreal: Cinar Films, pbs affiliate wqed in Pittsburgh and Japanese public broadcaster nhk have begun filming on Rinko: The Best Bad Thing, a made-for-tv movie based a book by Japanese-American author Yoshiko Uchida….

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New launches from OLE Canada

Montreal: A leader in the digital offline editing market, Lightworks is introducing its v.i.p. system to compete in the online editing and post-production sector, says OLE Canada president Mark Pounds, exclusive Canadian distributor of the system….

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Network: Short takes on people, things and what’s shaking out there in the prod tech universe

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Word: The Devils went down to Georgia

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Commercial Directions: Spy shoots in Mexico

Avion picked up three days for Motorola through McCann, Atlanta. Norman Seeff directed two days of the shoot and Laurie Rubin shot a day, creating three spots of various lengths….

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Storyboards: The look of silence

The first filmed message from a Canadian liquor distiller hit the big screen early this month with a spot that won’t be mistaken for a reconfigured beer ad. The spot for United Distillers’ Silent Sam vodka, appropriately titled ‘Shadowlands,’ is a…

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Monitor nominees

A generous helping of Canadian projects was among the list of finalists for the 1996 International Teleproduction Society’s Monitor Awards, including four nominations for Toronto facility Magnetic South….

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News Brief: Ferocious Fish scores Corman’s Death Game

Film composers Jim Guttridge and Daryl Bennett of Vancouver’s Ferocious Fish Productions have been chosen by Hollywood producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven) to write the music for his latest film, Death Game. The futuristic action flick…

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Special Report: Studios & Production Services: Impact of digitalia on services

Increasingly complex computer imaging and graphics, online Internet access, Web sites, digital transmissions…

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Special Report: Studios & Production Services: High demand, low capacity: Studios boom east and west

‘If you build it, they will come’ may be a well-worn cliche in midwestern corn fields, but it rings true for many studio operators in Canada. In b.c., the Prairies and Atlantic Canada, the film creation market is ripening at a…