Although he thinks titles ‘don’t mean anything,’ Hans Peter Strobl’s is a lofty one – chief mixer and vp of Marko Audio Post Production in Montreal. Strobl’s nearly 40 years experience and his considerable talent make Marko the top audio post…

Having written music scores in the director-driven world of feature films, Vancouver-based composer Tim McCauley says his collaboration on the cbc series DaVinci’s Inquest is actually much closer to Chris Haddock, the program’s creator/executive producer/head writer than with any of the…

To film editor Jeff Warren, it’s all in the relationships. Warren, a 30-year industry veteran based out of Toronto, says his big break was hooking up with director Sturla Gunnarsson back in 1984….

What happens when two Toronto visual effects shops find they have many of the same clients, and are bidding on many of the same jobs? Why, they merge, of course….

Post house Triangle Studios is moving this winter to the downstairs portion of the building it shares with commercial post/animation shop Spin Productions on Toronto’s King Street West. Triangle partner Matthew Bush says he and the dozen or so staff members…

‘The possibilities are endless,’ proclaims Stonehenge Post president Glyn Evans of the ever-evolving post-production technology available to him and his competitors….

It’s been almost six months since the sag/aftra commercial strike against the u.s. advertising industry began and Canada’s foremost performers union is feeling the pain, increasingly….

It’s true background performers are supposed to blend silently into the action in film and tv productions, but Charlie Fife, president of the Professional Association of Canadian Talent, is taking steps to ensure their voices are heard off screen….

With a new three-year master agreement signed in April and production in Vancouver booming, Gavin Craig, president of IATSE Local 891, says, ‘We’re maxed out with regard to our capacity. We cannot handle any more levels of production.’…

Syndicat des techniciennes et techniciens du cinema et de la video du Quebec, representing 2,300 freelance film technicians, and Association des professionnels de la video du Quebec, representing 1,200 technicians working in video, are merging to create a powerful new 3,500-member…

Film technicians union NABET 700 has taken a leaf from the books of bank lenders everywhere by designing the collective bargaining equivalent to the pre-approved mortgage. And the Toronto local is shopping this worry-free marketing tool around the city’s commercial production…

Now that the Writers Guild of Canada has ended 18 months of negotiations with English and French producers and struck a tentative independent production agreement with both groups – a deal being voted on as Playback went to press – the…