Vancouver: Nominations for this year’s Leo Awards highlight the wide cross-section of production in British Columbia. In all, the nominations recognize 74 titles….

Rogers Cable says it has reached the 100,000 digital set-top box mark, adding the deployment represents more than 4% of Rogers customers with access to digital cable. The service was launched nine months ago….

Montreal: The president of TV5 for the Americas says the future of the international French-language service hangs on its ability to leverage its reach into 120 million households and develop value-added services for the emerging world of transactional and interactive broadcasting….

Longtime Toronto commercial and long-form set design and building company, Handmade Sets, is expanding its new business – StudioWorks – to better serve the commercial and feature film industries….

The mid-Canada branch of Women In Film and Television landed the witty Carla Collins as an eleventh-hour fill-in host for its Crystal Awards 2000 gala last month when the woman scheduled to emcee called in sick hours before the show. Kim…

If you were to look at the credits for this year’s Bessies finalist spots, you would see that post-production house Panic & Bob edited more than its fair share. If you looked even closer, you’d see that while none of these…

Director Randy Diplock helped his home base, Apple Box Productions, secure a spot on the Bessies finalist list, not once, not twice, but thrice. The public service announcement campaign he shot for Saint John Ambulance nearly a year ago, depicting a…

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Robert Gordon believes he lived a ‘Cinderella story’ while shooting the Ontario Tourism campaign that has made the Bessies shortlist. The director/cameraman says receiving the boards for ‘Maid of the Mist,’ ‘Sea Plane,’ ‘Loon’ and ‘Rideau’ (the latter of which is…

When Rudy Buttignol falls in love, he clearly falls hard….

In 1999, a farmer in the tiny French village of Pozieres hooked the belt of an Australian soldier, buried since 1916, with his plow and lifted the skeletal remains right out of the ground. In fact, such was the devastation clustered…

Documentarians wanting to come up with salable product should throw out all their old stories and start again. At least, that’s the message from some of the buyers who will be present at Hot Docs….