Vancouver: Fans of digital production in Vancouver – and there are many – can attend Lights! Camera! Convergence!, a digital video symposium organized by the b.c. branch of the Directors Guild of Canada and sponsored by an impressive array of production…

Vancouver: Two more Vancouver directors will join local filmmakers Scott Smith and Reg Harkema on the rollercoaster ride of self-distribution….

Vancouver: Healthy Home – called an inspired guide to creative living – debuted Jan. 8 on hgtv as the latest in Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions’ string of information series….

Winnipeg and towns in the Interlake district of Manitoba are to serve as locations that could either retain their true identity onscreen or be repackaged as American by Winnipeg-based prodco The Screen Center, in its production of The Lights On The…

Up Front Entertainment has a full slate of docs in development for 2001 that move from nostalgic and heartwarming to scientific and heart-wrenching….

Halifax-based new media and television production company Collideascope Digital Pictures and Cochran Entertainment have signed a groundbreaking distribution deal which includes both broadcast and online properties as part of a package….

Montreal: In the one-hour children’s fantasy musical Hugo and the Dragon (Hugo et le Dragon), Hugo and friends flee a rambunctious little dragon called Bijou who gobbles up all the sun and stars, plunging the whole Milky Way into darkness….

Cinematographer Jonathan Freeman admits he was surprised when asked to shoot Quebec director Robert Lepage’s first English-language film, Possible Worlds. But considering Freeman’s credits, which include the cbc mows Promise the Moon (1997) and Clement Virgo’s The Planet of Junior Brown…

Sheldon Wiseman, president and executive producer of Ottawa’s Amberwood Productions, reports his animation company is ‘growing cautiously and our volume is increasing,’ and that he is looking at expansion to include 3D capabilities….

Fujifilm Canada has introduced its HD331 digital high-definition videocassettes for hdcam systems, and Toronto equipment supplier Sim Video Productions is choosing the new tapes to supply its customers….

Amberwood Productions is the biggest client for Pip Animation Services, a three-year-old, Ottawa-based company which provides a range of services from project planning and management to color design, background rendering, digital ink and paint, final color and post-production….

The Canadian Feature Film Fund, to be administered by Telefilm Canada, is due for a full launch in April. The announcement for the policy, From Script to Screen, mentioned the objective of ‘build[ing] larger Canadian and international audiences’ and spoke of…