Prepared to win or lose but network at all costs, the well-coiffed, bright-eyed denizens of the advertising and commercial production community straggled en masse into the Sheraton Centre Thursday, May 2, for the 36th annual Bessie Awards….

He’s Snook, a St. John’s’ ‘corner-boy’ with a sharp tongue outmatched only by his even sharper wit. Putting in his two cents on the issues of the day (particularly politics, in a province where politics is three parts three-ring circus and…

‘She’s been, for years, what all the young production house producers want to be – the perfect producer.’…

The Bob Mann Post Production Award, established in 1992, is presented in recognition of a post-production achiever who is not only consummately professional and technologically astute but who has also somehow managed to retain a high degree of humanity in the…

Costa Rica and pizza pops. Sleek cars and couriers. The Canadian west coast, motoroil, and underwear….

While candidates for special effects recognition among Bessies contenders weren’t overly abundant, according to the judges there was no dearth of quality, and those who distinguished themselves displayed an ample amount of technological and creative prowess….

The work of Canadian editors as showcased this year at The Bessies was by all accounts a cut above, and according to one of the judges was a perfect complement to a collection of outstanding overall creative product….

For Steve MacKinnon of Rosnick MacKinnon, it was a tough call wading through 600 commercials to judge the music component of the Bessies….

Once again Playback has been sifting through this year’s Bessies winners to determine which individuals within the various tv advertising disciplines were involved in the most Bessie Awards-winning spots and how they scored according to our point system….

It’s an Easter story set at Christmas. A small-town petty criminal searches for redemption while trying to protect his ill son and his ex-wife from a dangerous foe, a former partner in crime who’s been freed from jail. ‘Jerry’s kind of…

On the heels of a $2.1 million second-quarter loss, its program supply agreements in jeopardy, and facing the possibility of the Asper net invading Alberta, WIC Western International Communications is making a play to dilute CanWest Global Communication’s considerable program rights…

Two of the Ontario Film Development Corporation’s smaller funds have been chopped, and while there is nothing good about the loss, reading between the lines suggests there is hope for the future of the provincial agency….