‘It’s a Generation x comedy – it’s the story of a slacker taking the first steps to the rest of his life,’ says Kari Skogland of her fresh new feature film, The Size of Watermelons. This is also a first step…

Elaine, a jaded cabaret performance artist, leaves behind an unfaithful fiancee and embarks on an impressionistic adventure in search of a life. The ‘girl from nowhere’ travels by train, moped, ferry, taxi and plane, wandering the crowded streets of New York…

The advance of three Canadian directors, Bronwen Hughes, Kari Skogland and Eliza Barry, into feature directing at roughly the same time seems notable. That the three women are former commercial directors, and that all have done tours of duty at The…

Based on the 1964 children’s book by Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy is the story of an 11-year-old girl aspiring to be a writer. Acting on the advice of her nanny, who says to be a writer one must first learn…

Not one to dally, Steve Chase got a Hollywood right of passage out of the way early when, convinced his work was being compromised, he walked away from his first feature project….

At Avion, director/dop Simon Mestel wrapped two days for a 30-second Dynamic Mutual Funds spot through Echo Advertising….

Montreal: Cosimo Cavallaro was voted Director of the Year at the recent Publicite Club de Montreal annual advertising and creative awards competition….

It’s no secret that Ottawa’s Funbag Animation has been keeping company with Sullivan Entertainment in attempts to forge a distribution agreement, but it’s looking like the two companies may team up on the production and direction of an animation property….

Vancouver: B.C.’s new minister of film is Penny Priddy. She takes over the Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture from Bill Barlee, who was narrowly defeated in the May 28 provincial election….

Montreal: Ancient ufos, a science-fiction comic book that comes to life, and teenage heroes who save the planet are the driving elements in Laserhawk, an f/x-intensive feature film from director Jean Pellerin and producers Pieter Kroonenburg and John Curtis….

Laetitia Masson’s romance story En Avoir (ou pas) from France has won the $3,000 Louve D’Or prize, awarded to best feature film at the Festival of Nouveau Cinema….

What equipment, under the command of the nimble fingers and lively imagination of which effects and animation experts, makes clients positively clamber to bask in the results of their combined genius?…