Matrox Video Products Group understands the importance of having a good show at NAB, and it’s up to staff at its Montreal head office to organize the company’s presentation at the Las Vegas trade show. But the digital video hardware/software manufacturer,…

Jon Robertson is VP, Vancouver operations, of Command Post and Transfer. The Command Post/TOYBOX West facility specializes in post-production and visual effects for feature films, long-form television and commercials. …

Hitachi Denshi America’s broadcast and professional group will introduce two low-cost multi-standard HD cameras at NAB2001….

NAB2001 marks the first anniversary of U.K.-based Innovation TK’s Millennium Machine telecine system. The MM is designed around the concept of creating digital images as close as possible to the actual film, with a warmer and more organic feel. At this…

Sony Electronics’ theme for NAB2001 is ‘Anycast, Anywhere, Anytime.’ This kind of catchphrase, conjuring up notions of metadata, HD and integration, is definitely de rigueur among product exhibitors this year. …

Back Alley Film Productions is graduating from teenage, hip-hop programming to female sexuality with the development of Exposed, a new 13-part, half-hour, dramatic anthology series based on erotic fiction written by women.
‘It challenges the stereotypes attached to women’s sexuality,’ says coproducer Adrienne Mitchell. ‘It takes women out of the victim position and shows them as empowered.’
One segment, for example, demystifies women’s role in infidelity, highlighting the empowerment women can derive from forming their own extramarital relationships.

Vancouver: Documentary producer David Paperny has drawn back the curtain to reveal Vancouver inflagrante delicto: sadomasochism, cross-dressing, gender switching, fetish parties, dungeons, masters and slaves, and other forms of sexual expression.
Kink, made for Showcase’s Fridays Without Borders bloc, chronicles (rather intimately, one might say) the lives of people who aren’t shy about talking about and demonstrating their nocturnal pursuits.

Halifax’s Ocean Entertainment and Toronto’s Northern Lights are championing their new documentary series Reinventing Ritual. The three one-hours are being produced for Vision TV by Ocean’s Johanna Eliot and Northern Lights’ Luc Bourgon and Ian French . A deal is pending in the U.S.
‘What we are doing in each episode is looking at a different rite of passage, the big transitional periods in one’s life, and trying to see how North Americans are handling them today,’ says director Sonya Jampolsky. ”Reinventing’ is the apt word, because most people have some historical knowledge or have some family history of rituals and they are just adapting them for the times. It is really fascinating when you start to explore ritual and what it actually is.’

By now everyone is very familiar with domain name suffixes that either end in .COM, .NET, .ORG, .CA or similar country codes. In fact, the companies you work for have likely already chosen, registered and promoted their own domain names for their websites and e-mail.
Well, don’t get too comfortable yet – get ready for the next round of disputes over the latest ‘top-level domain names’ (or ‘TLDs’).

Montreal: The new Luc Dionne drama series Le Bunker is one of the season’s most ambitious shoots, filming over 90 days in St. Hubert and Montreal locations, beginning the second week of March through to mid-August.
Le Bunker, a Zone 3 production for Radio-Canada, is an unusual satire where rumor and innuendo take on a life of their own among the characters who use and abuse political power. The series’ title refers to the governmental complex in Quebec City where the premier and top staff hold out, an opaque, virtually windowless structure which serves as the province’s political nerve centre.

Toronto-based cinematographer Dylan MacLeod says director Clement Virgo threw him for a loop upon their first meeting. MacLeod says he went into it very excited, believing he was going to be involved in a visually striking film, characteristic of Virgo’s previous work. But the director had something different in mind for Love Come Down, the cameraman’s first theatrical feature.
‘He said, ‘I don’t want to do the stylistic thing for this one,’ ‘ MacLeod recalls.

The filmmaking world has lost one of its shining lights with the passing of Polish cinematographer Piotr Sobocinski, March 26 in Vancouver. The 43-year-old DOP died in his sleep of heart failure one week into production on 24 Hours, a ransom…