Montreal: The programming directors at Radio-Canada must really like their new half-hour dramedy La Vie la vie, an ensemble series featuring a group of thirtysomething friends in Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal district. The show has scored an enviable 39-episode order from src,…

Vancouver: Fifty percent of production at Vancouver’s Atomic Cartoons is Flash animation for the Internet and almost half the 30 employees are at work on Web productions….

Alex Du is a lawyer at the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch and a member of the firm’s KNOWlaw Group. This article was prepared with the assistance of Albert Luk…

Tryan George, a director for life and a finalist this year in the First Cut Awards, started his affair with filmmaking at a young age after finding a Super 8 camera at his friend’s house. George immediately began shooting little movies…

Credo Entertainment’s historical docusoap Pioneer Quest: A Year in the Life of the Real West ran into potential disaster when half the series’ star power had to pull out within 24 hours of the series commencing….

The Animation House, the Toronto-based commercial division of Evening Sky Productions, has combined still photography, animation and live action on a pair of tv spots for Kraft Pourables Salad Dressing. According to Animation House’s Michael Crabtree, who produced and codirected the…

Montreal: Pay-per-view services Canal Indigo and Viewer’s Choice Canada have announced dates for a live stereoscopic 3D broadcast of three races in the Formula Atlantic/cart Toyota series. The 3D broadcasts are a first in Canada, according to the promoters….

Linzi Knight’s first cut was apparently quite deep, for the Toronto-based but nomadic director has landed a spot as a First Cut finalist….

First Cut finalist Jeremy Lynch has always wanted to be a spot director….

About 10 years ago, digital technology took the world of sound and sound design and turned it upside down. Now digital is everywhere. So is digital technology homogenizing sound design? Thomas Neuspiel of Toronto’s Keen Music Voice & Sound Design is…

‘Snoopy Brush-a-Brush-a-Toothbrush/When you wake up in the morning!/A really nice touch!’ Around a decade and a half later, this song still rolls around in the heads of many veteran tv watchers, commercial connoisseurs and Peanuts fans. Now, in the days of…

Griffiths Gibson and Ramsay Productions has been producing commercial audio since 1968. Based in Vancouver, the company is still going strong. Thirty-two years into its history, executive producer Gord Lord says, ‘We’re having our best year ever.’…