Late last month, Angel Films’ Sarah Ker-Hornell added Aubrey Singer to her roster of three other Canadian commercial directors. With the agreement, Singer, who has worked in advertising for 10 years including a stint as an associate creative director with TBWA…

Academy Award nominee Atom Egoyan, one of Canada’s foremost long-form directors, has accepted his first commercial directing job. Represented by Imported Artists, Egoyan is helming a two-day PricewaterhouseCoopers shoot in Toronto. The 30-second spot is out of u.s. agency Hill Holliday…

Apple Box Productions continues to make news with the recent signing of Toronto-based director Mitch Gabourie. A spot director of four years, Gabourie joins Apple Box from The Players Film Company, where he was represented for a year and a half….

This year’s Perspective Canada boasts a record 15 world premiere feature films, with Denis Villeneuve’s Maelstrom kicking off the program….

Montreal: The 24 edition of the Montreal World Film Festival, Aug. 25-Sept. 4, will pay special tribute to Italy cinema and veteran director Francesco Rosi, recipient of this year’s Grand Prix Special des Amerique career-achievement award….

Here we go again: Even with a diet of Advil and Jos Louis, I still blame you people for my internal bleeding. Not even the stink-wads who work here give me any respect. Notice, the last issue I wasn’t even in…

Oh, the national news. Isn’t it exciting?…

While its privately run counterparts are striking multibillion-dollar, landmark convergence deals, the cbc has been busy handing out pink slips – 212 in its latest round – as it attempts to converge its local supper-hour newscasts with a new national one….

* Rudy Buttignol has been promoted to creative head of documentaries, drama, network branding and membership at tvontario….

Got Milk? Stefan Morel sure does. Perhaps more accurately, Stefan Morel is Milk. His hands, in fact, are firmly pinching the commercial production udder of Milk Arts, a relatively new production company operating out of Montreal….

Whether there exists a conflict of undue preference when a broadcaster moves into the realm of distribution, and vice versa, is a question that does not seem to be occupying the crtc much these days and is certainly not inhibiting the…

The whole specialty channel application, intervention and licensing process is inherently war-like and gory. Applicants don their armor, proclaim the unassailable valor of their purpose, and then zealously aim their Uzis at anyone who might be a competitor, or cast even…