Vancouver: Canadian Bob Saget was in Vancouver this month making his dramatic directorial debut on another disease-of-the-week mow for abc. An odd choice, you might think, for the man who laugh-tracks it through America’s Funniest Home Videos each week. But the…

Toronto’s Creative Post has spun a new high-end effects facility into the trailer park of life with Twister Digital Effects….

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With the help of Toronto’s Command Post and Transfer and the facility’s Quantel Domino digital optical system for film, the cbc will be stirring the competitive and patriotic cockles of moviegoers’ hearts with a moving spot for its planned coverage of…

A glory-hogging trip to Cannes aside, David Cronenberg’s Crash marked another achievement in terms of the making of the film itself….

For producer/director Gary Marcuse of Face to Face Media in Vancouver, turning his documentary into a ‘multipurpose project’ was essential in making it financially feasible. The one-hour, award-winning Mind of a Child is about a breakthrough in the teaching of aboriginal…

Filmmaking has always taken a lot of creativity. However, it’s not just the scriptwriting, art direction, set decorating and costumes that require great amounts of imagination….

Blackwatch Communications, a Montreal-based company, has designed an innovative plan for private investors to buy into films….

3 Themes-ewm’s Daniele J. Suissa and Donald Martin, executive producer of Women, Lifestyle & Money, launched the television series after a lengthy process of piecing together $350,000 for 13 episodes….

Following is the 1996 edition of Playback’s annual digest of national funding and investment sources available for Canadian independent film and television program development, production and/or distribution….

Following is the 1996 edition of Playback’s annual digest of provincial funding and investment sources available for Canadian independent film and television program development, production and/or distribution….

‘Asians are just emerging in the field of coproduction, except for Japan,’ says Vancouver-based Camille Gueymard, market development – Asia, Telefilm Canada. At this point, Asian broadcasters mainly produce their own shows in their own languages, with little program exchange, says…