If it weren’t for those golden little moments where nothing seems to make sense, nothing could save advertising awards shows from their own drabness. Recently, one fine-spun golden moment rescued the 2000 London International Advertising Awards when Toronto’s Toothin Theatre managed…

Is your head pounding too? Well, it’s the end of another holiday season, and you’re sure to be almost as hungover as me. Party after party. Drink after drink. It’s enough to make even the most accomplished imbiber go dry for…

Toronto’s Filmblanc has signed a mutual representation deal with Lee Films of Madrid, which it says creates new opportunities for the Canadian and European commercial production communities….

The Toronto Film Critics Association has announced its picks for 2000, with awards going to Gary Burns’ waydowntown for best Canadian film and Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for best film….

Montreal: Societe de developpement des enterprises culturelles – Quebec invested $18.4 million in a wide range of support programs for the film and television industry, according to its newly released annual report for fiscal ’99-2000. More than $2.5 million was injected…

Shots & Chasers tracks who shot what during the previous month. Production companies are invited to fax information for this column as frequently as possible to Dave Lazar or Dustin Dinoff at (416) 408-0870. The next deadline for submissions is Wednesday,…

In the last year alone, GFT Entertainment produced 15 feature films, 11 of which were coproductions, and in all rung in a total budget of $136 million….

Third Floor Editing’s Barry McMann is ‘a production hound from way back.’ Turns out, the high-level Toronto spot editor played more than his share of roles in the production community before settling in as the cool, Canadian cutter he is today….

Not even a limb breaking in digital surround sound can match the horrific noise of a packed movie theatre when the pre-preview commercials come on. They are inevitable these days, and nothing short of an angry rush on the projector room…

Montreal: Muse Entertainment Enterprises and The Movie Factory of Munich, Germany have started production on the 13-hour adventure fantasy The Neverending Story….

Spot editor Dennis Kutchera has ‘worked all over.’ After 10 years honing his trade in Toronto, he moved to Halifax in the early ’90s There, in ’98, he opened his own editing shop, the aptly named Dennis Kutchera Post Production….

Some editors believe that sometimes the less expensive gear will help achieve the better work. One of those is Ian Jenkins, one of three senior editors at Vancouver’s Coast Mountain Post Production, which specializes in commercials….