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Special Report on Commercial Production/First Cut Awards: I Am Adaptable: Henderson wins

It’s easy to see why Pete Henderson won. Just watch his reel. It covers a wide genre of commercials, and does so in a style that seems too accomplished for someone who’s been in the game for a relatively short span….

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Special Report on Commercial Production/First Cut Awards: Jarvis: a talent for talent

Drew Jarvis showed up on the doorsteps of Revolver Films in 1994, fresh from film studies at the Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena, California and carrying a reel of three spec spots. Executive producer Tom McLean was impressed with…

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Special Report on Commercial Production/First Cut Awards: No limits for director Floria Sigismondi

For director Floria Sigismondi of The Partners’ Film Company, an artistic family heritage and a passion for photography have led to sterling work in music videos and now a truly promising career in commercial film direction….

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Special Report on Commercial Production/First Cut Awards: The visual sense and sensiblity of Ron Baxter Smith

Teacher, photographer, commercial director – Ron Baxter Smith is an explorer, not only of various mediums and art forms, but also of ideas and visual stimuli….

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Special Report on Commercial Production/First Cut Awards: Clarity and discipline: Revolver’s Allan Mestel

As the homespun adage goes, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ Or in other words, particularly those of director Allan Mestel, ‘If the idea is clean and it works, don’t make it more complex than it needs to be.’…

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Special Report on Commercial Production/First Cut Awards: Best and worst career moves

The First Cut winners announced and celebrated this week must be making all the right moves. Talented, production savvy, politically salient and willing to take some chances, those who trained the wonder-young did a damn fine job….

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The Wrong Guy

A sweet summer day in Claremont, Ont. and the local kids are getting an eyeful, checking out the craft truck, scanning the crowd, trying to spot the stars. Around the front of the farmhouse, the crew is setting up a picket…

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Harold Greenberg: `He was an icon and we have precious few’

Montreal: The Canadian production industry is deeply saddened by the death July 1 of Harold Greenberg, founder and chairman of the board of Astral Communications….

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DTH: culture again at issue

If the latest events in the never-ending tale of the Canadian direct-to-home satellite industry are any indication, compromising Canadian cultural policy has become a necessary part of the process of getting a homegrown dth service in the air….

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At Press Time

Launched last fall to allow wider distribution of Canadian features and shorts, as well as some foreign art films, The Toronto International Film Festival Group’s Southern Film Circuit project – which enabled the likes of Le Confessional, Margaret’s Museum and The…

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Arrow promo

The CRB Foundation will use the $7.8 million cbc miniseries production of The Arrow as the basis for a new ‘Heritage Minute’ on the story of the ill-fated Avro Arrow fighter planes….

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Nets argue Alberta service

Hearings for a new Alberta broadcasting service begin July 15 with all the established Canadian nets stampeding to Calgary to add a host of sky-is-falling arguments to the week-long process….