Things have been ‘exploding’ at Imported Artists this month. Director Richard D’Alessio and dop George Willis have a day for Bell Canada through Leo Burnett. Gillian McCarthy at Third Floor will edit. D’Alessio is also directing two days on location in…

– DiviCom has improved the quality, efficiency and flexibility of the MPEG-2 digital broadcast system it introduced a year ago. Among the enhancements to the encoder are an advanced video preprocessor, adaptive field frame coding, and repeat field detecti

– Wendy MacKeigan, chairperson of the Foundation to Underwrite New Drama, has announced increased per project funding amounts available in fund’s Script Development Program. Maximum project funding has doubled from $25,000 to $50,000 and the amount availa

Vancouver: Over-partied, underfunded filmmakers pulled themselves away from the last hors d’oeuvres table at the Toronto International Film Festival and headed back to Vancouver to begin another round of similar libations at the 14th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, running from…

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Shawn Malcolm is an investment advisor in ScotiaMcLeod’s North Toronto Office….

– ICE Integrated Communications and Entertainment has won the contract to produce the Ontario Film Development Corporation’s first World Wide Web site, to be sponsored by the ofdc and the Toronto Film and Television Office. The site, which goes online in.

Simon Chester is the partner in charge of research and a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch. This article was prepared with the assistance of Lauralee Bielert….

Robert Armstrong is a broadcasting and film consultant based in Montreal….

With suitable disregard for the expected, organizers of the Vancouver International Film Festival are kicking off the event this year with a piece of work known to few patrons, even those among the film cognoscenti. Lonesome, a 1928 film by Hungarian…

Melanie Friesen, producer of the 10th annual Film and Television Trade Forum Oct. 5-7, says the event speaks to the current issues facing filmmakers in b.c. and around the world. The goal, she says, is to applaud both the local film…

After viewing an eye-glazing 198 short films, Alison Vermee still says programming shorts is one of the most rewarding aspects of her job as Canadian Images programmer at the Vancouver International Film Festival….