Montreal: Award-winning writer/director Denis Villeneuve is set for a return to filmmaking after a six-year absence with two projects – an adaptation of a popular play and a retelling of the 1989 massacre at L’École Polytechnique.

Montreal: Luc Déry has dreams of Cannes. The producer and principal at micro_scope is overseeing the finishing touches on Congorama, his second collaboration with local director Philippe Falardeau, and hopes the $5-million feature will find a place at the famed festival in 2007.

Vancouver: Love and Other Dilemmas, a new $1-million feature from Clarity Films, under the single-purpose banner Perfect Day Pictures, will go to camera on March 22 after four years of gearing up.

Vancouver; Jamie Kennedy (Son of the Mask) stars in Kickin’ it Old Skool, from L.A.-based Yari Film Group and service producer Network Entertainment, which began filming on March 20.

With Whistler expected to debut on CTV shortly, Blueprint Entertainment is readying a new slate of series and MOWs for shoots this spring and summer.

Vancouver: CBC is giving This Space for Rent, a would-be dramedy about twentysomethings living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, another shot at finding a place to stay.

George Walker (This Is Wonderland) and partner Dani Romain are developing a new series for The Movie Network and Movie Central, and plan to coproduce the one-hour drama Adult Entertainment with Debbie Nightingale (Chicks with Sticks).

* François Girard’s Silk has finished its four-week stay in Japan, and will next shoot in Italy starting April 7.

Family Channel will debut its newest series Life with Derek on March 24, following a round of on-air and online sneak previews. The first ep of the 13 x 30 comedy ran over the March 10-12 weekend on www.family.ca – the first sneak peek of its kind, says Family – leading into five days of on-air promotion.

Despite a resurgence of Super 16 capture, the HD post revolution appears to be in full swing.

A year after it unveiled its Symphony Nitris HD editing platform at NAB 2005, Avid is still touting this product as its best solution for post producers working in HD, SD, or both.

Do you cut differently in HD versus film?