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Liberals to support B.C. film biz

VANCOUVER: B.C. voters booted out the most film-friendly government in provincial history May 16, but the new Liberal government is expected to build on that success….

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Ginger Snaps up ‘respectable’ #s

WITH a P&A budget that represents close to 30% of the film’s overall budget, Ginger Snaps’ opening weekend figures were somewhat disappointing to distributor TVA International….

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Short fest boasts 23 programs

THE Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival, running June 6-10, this year presents 23 programs of short world cinema and a new festival market….

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The Bald Ego – Bruce Alcock

Established commercial directors are the subject of this regular feature. Each issue we will profile their careers, accomplishments and the ideas that propel them to new advertising heights….

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New slots, coprod buoy Amerimage-Spectra

MONTREAL: Perhaps the country’s busiest variety and performance show producer, Amerimage-Spectra is producing 18 specials and series this season, representing more than 35 hours of national and international programming….

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The sweetest whine

Congratulations! It’s our most offensive year yet. Our standards are as fabulously low as they have ever been, and the public is outraged. Seems like we’re finally getting things right….

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Whassup? NewNew hires two new

who’s gone where? From where? And when? As the Revolving Doors spin, we put the spotlight on spot-makers on-the-move….

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Clarification

In an April 2 Marquee Post item about a Natrel spot Command Post/TOYBOX senior Inferno artist/ designer James Cooper recently worked on, Cooper was quoted as saying: ‘At this stage of my career I’m finding less and less challenge in the…

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Merci and ciao, Francois

Ah, Francois, we hardly knew ye….

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Jump Cuts

CRTC greenlights Videotron takeover…

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Sunshine lights way for Sick Kids’ Miracle Weekend

LOOK around Angel Films director Jamie Way’s first professional ‘bid-to-close’ directing job and you’ll see a crew thawing out from a long, arduous winter. The warm April sunshine and the inspired, feathered symphony tweet-tweet-tweetin’ through the neighborhood make the one-day shoot…

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DKP: new facility, new outlook

ANIMATION and F/X house DKP Effects is settling into its three-month-old facility on Toronto’s Queen Street East, and is looking to re-establish itself in the Canadian commercial biz. For a while, much of the shop’s focus was directed south….