It wasn’t kitchen-sink realism, but kitchen-table filmmaking that was at the center of one Hot Docs industry session. Veteran filmmakers Peter Raymont, Simcha Jacobovici and Julia Sereny debated the merits of the no-infrastructure, tiny-budget method of making movies (i…

third Floor Editing is losing primo editor Jon Hopp to the Golden State as of April 30….

Imported Artists’ Richard D’Alessio has picked up work for Molson Export through MacLaren McCann. He’ll be shooting six days on location in Toronto with dop Simon Mestel, and Mark Hajek of Partners Post will handle the edit. Director/ cameraman Erick Ifergan…

Pennzoil Products Canada is ready to do battle on the international market with a commercial looking like the last five minutes of a Stallone action movie that features two futuristic David and Goliath warriors. They’re competing on a tennis court the…

Peter Rigby is executive vp, creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi, Toronto….

The best Canadian video productions in training, sales and marketing, and internal and external communications were showcased at the 10th Annual EVA Awards in Toronto on March 23….

Vancouver: The success of Western Canada’s first independently produced cel-animated series is evidence that Vancouver’s cartoon business is finally moving out from under the thumb of u.s. service work….

Lounge music. It’s not just the faint echoes of some dated, nocturnal crooner (labored white smile) who tinkles/wheezes out the theme song to Bewitched from behind the piano. According to filmmaker Alison Reid, it’s the next musical tsunami, and she plans…

Vancouver: Producer/director/writer Mort Ransen is busy trying to get his next project, Shegalla Summer, off the ground in time to shoot this summer. The dramatic film, written by first-time Vancouver screenwriter Joan Hopper, is about a man who escapes from a…

Douglas Barrett is a partner of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch and head of the firm’s KNOWlaw Group….

Montreal: Shooting is underway on Cosmos, an innovative 29-day New Wave feature project from six young directors and Max Films producer Roger Frappier….

Coscient Group is reporting a sharp hike in net earnings for the first six months of ’95/96, coinciding with important additions to the company’s management roster….