Toronto director of photography Derick Underschultz had to recreate a natural disaster that grips New Orleans in the tv movie On Hostile Ground, which debuted on the Turner Broadcasting System Superstation June 11, and will be repeated June 17 and 24….

A new Denys Arcand film is always an event in this country, and Montreal service provider Covitec was excited to be a part of it – a large part, in fact, as the Montreal-based subsidiary of Astral Media handled complete post-production…

Vancouver post-production and visual effects house Rainmaker Digital Pictures was recently enlisted to create special effects reminiscent of The Matrix in a Frito-Lay commercial for the Central American, South American and Asian markets. The ad, launching Doritos 3-D chips, was produced…

Montreal director Manon Briand, fresh from her award-winning feature film 2 Secondes, has accepted the 30-second challenge. Montreal’s Voodoo Arts has added Briand to its roster of directors, which now includes 18 names….

Bob Kowalski wants you to know you have options. When you’re looking for unexposed raw film stock, he’s got fridges full of the stuff and he’s ready to sell it – ‘from 20% to 70% off Kodak’s price.’…

In May, The Big Film Company added another Canadian commercial director to its roster. With the move, John Belbeck, contracted as a creative director in the marketing department of cbc and Newsworld, has acquired freelance representation….

Toronto-based director Jean-Marc Piche has made a dramatic leap from one of Toronto’s top commercial production houses to another when he recently left Avion Films to join Industry Films. Piche, who has made a name for himself directing in Toronto, Montreal…

Many Playback commercial industry readers will surely recall How to Get Ahead in Advertising, a 1989 film from Britain. Tim Hamilton seems to have figured out ‘how’ and he doesn’t even have a talking boil to contend with (at least, not…

U.S.-based, Italian-born director Pierluca De Carlo has signed an exclusive Canadian representation deal with Toronto’s Maxx Productions. De Carlo, who heads up New York-based commercial production company The Naked Project, was in Canada about five years ago to shoot a Canadian…

Montreal: The head of motion picture production at Alliance Atlantis Communications says Canada has to play smarter if its stake in the movie business is to go forward. aac unveiled a highly British-oriented slate of movies at the 2000 Cannes International…

Cinegroupe’s animated children’s series The Kids From Room 402 has been sold in both English and French to Teletoon, which will premier the 40-episode series to Canadian audiences this fall….

In spite of a nationwide emphasis on cbc’s potential plan to cut over a dozen regional/local newscasts, changes to children’s programming on cbc English television will include more weekday hours and an enhanced kid’s website….