Red Rover’s Andy Knight has delivered a new interstitial for Turner Broadcasting’s The Cartoon Network, which could very well change the way we all look at Fred Flintstone. The 60-second piece, which has both animated and live-action elements, features Flintstone selflessly…

With Atom Egoyan’s recent first venture into spot direction, there’s a renewed focus on those directors who bounce between television, feature film and spot work. Although Egoyan was unavailable for comment, commercial/feature directors Bruce McDonald (The Partners’ Film Company), Boris Damast…

In the latest news on the Cinar frontier, company shares have been suspended on the tse and former co-ceos Micheline Charest and Ronald Weinberg are refusing to respond to the special committee of the board of director’s request that they resign…

Director/writer: Lynne Stopkewich…

Montreal-based director Caroline Wrinch is on a mission to make digital filmmaking sexier. Repped in the Quebec market by Soma Films and in the rest of Canada by Apple Box Productions, Wrinch recently completed work on a spot for McGill University…

Director: John Fawcett * Writer: Karen Walton…

No one said it would be easy becoming a commercial director in the year 2000. Especially in Canada. Gone are the days where a kid fresh out of school with a fabulous eye for visuals and unlimited ambition could walk into…

With rapidly advancing technology and the industry in flux, the commercial set we know and love could be very different 20 years from now. To get some perspective, Playback released the brains of several directorial talents. Freed to look into the…

Director/producer: Alanis Obomsawin…

Director: John L’Ecuyer * Writer: Heather O’Neill * Producers: Sandra Cunningham, Nicole Robert…

Director/writer/producer/cinematographer: Andrea Dorfman * Diary by: Dustin Dinoff…

Vancouver post-production and visual effects house Rainmaker Digital Pictures reports it has been ‘firing on all cylinders’ throughout the summer, benefiting from the many medium-budget Hollywood features that have recently shot in town….