The movie Rub & Tug was edited by Daniel Palmer and supervising editor Saul Pincus, not by director Soo Lyu as reported in the Sept. 2 issue.

Top editor and Relish cofounder Chris Van Dyke has left the post shop less than two years after its launch.

MDG Productions

Montreal: Italian director and novelist Cristina Comencini’s touching family drama The Best Day of My Life (Il piu bel giorno della mia vita) is the winner of the Grand Prix des Ameriques, top award for a feature film in competition at this year’s Montreal World Film Festival. The Special Grand Prix Jury prize went to Turkish director Tayfun Pirselimoglu for Innowhereland (Hicbiryerde). The WFF2002 awards were handed out at a gala closing-night ceremony at Place des Arts, Sept. 2.

Chris Delaney, founder of Vancouver animation house Delaney & Friends Cartoon Productions, began to notice a lull in demand for 2D animation four years ago and it hasn’t shown any signs of picking up. In the early to mid-’90s, Delaney was producing 30 to 40 spots a year, and now, he says, he’s lucky to get eight or 10.

Sylvain Taillon is a partner and executive producer at TOPIX, Toronto

Michelle Pfeiffer, Dustin Hoffman and other Hollywood types made their entrances at the Toronto International Film Festival traipsing along a red carpet, while the English Quebec feature The Baroness and the Pig arrived via satellite.

Ken Stuart is chief technology officer for EK3 a London ON based media technology company and maker of the N-Box.

Montreal: Two Hollywood-based companies and a Montreal investor group have announced plans to build a $40-million studio complex in suburban Candiac, QC, about 20 minutes from downtown Montreal.

* Barrie Usher has resigned as president and CEO and as a director of Cinar Corp. and all its subsidiaries, effective Sept. 15.

Giant-screen exhibitor Imax Corp. announced one of its founders, William Shaw, passed away Saturday, Aug. 31 in a Toronto hospital from complications following a heart attack.

TIFF might have the glamour of Hollywood stars and starlets ambling down red carpets, but VIFF can boast more Canadian titles.