N.Y. connection for Radical Sheep…

It’s official. Wavefront has at long last unveiled Dynamation 1.0, an interactive dynamics software product useful in creating physically-based animation and SFX….

Spring 1984: Screenwriter Michel Langlois writes a feature film script called La Traversee for director Lea Pool. Langlois has just completed cowriting Pool’s Le Femme de l’hotel. Bernadette Payeur of acpav, Pool’s producer, also organizes the financing for Langlois’ screenplay through…

Montreal: Rules created to safeguard French-language film and television production in Quebec should be changed if the industry is to grow and build exports, says one of the province’s busiest producers, Aimee Danis, president of Verseau International….

U.S. projects in Toronto include Janek MOW and Open Season…

Early September 1991: The Toronto Festival of Festivals finds successful television director Gerald Ciccoritti ‘very depressed’. He hasn’t done a feature since 1984’s Psycho Girls (budget, $15,000; schedule, nine days; made with the help of friends), and decides to ‘go home…

Winter 1990: Documentary filmmaker Nettie Wild returns to Vancouver after spending five years in the Philippines making A Rustling of Leaves. She discovers her home is immersed in its own social/political troubles. Two major issues are tearing it apart: the indiscriminate…

Imax Systems Corporation’s long search for a buyer has ended. And so has an era. The five principal partners of the Canadian company have sold their shares to former U.S. theatre owner Ted Mann. The amount of sale has not been…

Two Brothers, A Girl and A Gun: while the title presents a succinct image of the film, an apt description of bringing this low-budget feature to fruition might read, Two Producers, No Money and a Visa Card….

December 1989: Darrell Wasyk, having completed his acclaimed feature film H, goes to Guyana to research locations for a tropical love story he plans to write. He comes to see the ‘abandoned country’, as the perfect backdrop for the dysfunctionality of…

November 1991: Working with students in her acting and directing class at Montreal’s Concordia University, Micheline Lanctot is struck by one young woman who reminds her of an actress she worked with in Sonatine. Lanctot fantasizes about the connections between these…

May 1984: At a dinner party in Toronto, Patricia Gruben meets an Inuit from Tuktoyaktuk, n.w.t., who tells her he was married to a woman with her name. Gruben is intrigued, not only by the idea that she might have distant…