Deborah Osborne is a post-production manager and consultant with 25 years experience on features, TV series and live-to-air programming. She has conducted seminars for numerous TV and film organizations, festivals, unions and guilds, and designed and taught a post-production supervision course at Humber College in Toronto. Osborne relocated to Calgary two years ago and is currently working as post-production manager for Joe Media Group.

What’s the hottest HD camera? How hot is HD in the market?

Actor Rick Roberts stars as Major Gavin Hart in Whizbang Films’ upcoming ZOS: Zone of Separation, an eight-part drama series – shot entirely in HD – about the struggle of peacekeepers trying to enforce a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in a fictional, Sarajevo-like town.

Rob Sim smiles like a Cheshire cat as he holds up the red-stamped Mandarin document that permits his 25-year-old Toronto-based Sim Video to officially open a branch in Beijing, host city of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

Sim Video Los Angeles is ‘a boutique facility,’ says Jim Martin, Sim Video’s VP of U.S. operations and new business developments. ‘We’re not a massive rental house, so we’re able to offer a more personal touch when dealing with our clients.

Capturing the joy and tears of the Canadian Idol competition is a key part of the job for Sim Video, which has supplied video cameras to the popular Canadian series since day one.

This year’s Toronto International Film Festival is unspooling two Canadian HD-shot feature films, including the new Peter Greenaway film Nightwatching, coproduced by Christine Haebler through Vancouver’s No Equal Entertainment.

Sim Video modifies cameras based on feedback from its DOP clients, according to video camera guru Rob Sim, co-owner and president of Sim Group.

There was only one objection and it took just 11 minutes for Goldman Sachs to scoop up the remaining 49% of Motion Picture Distribution at a special meeting on Friday

Dougray Scott cast as both sides of split personality, while a second horror, Day of the Drones, goes to camera at the Montreal production house

New on-air look will be matched by a redesigned website and promotional campaign in the fall, looking to build on the digichannel’s strong numbers

New broadband players will launch for major Alliance Atlantis specialty nets, and they’ll come with plenty of analytics for advertisers