Digital technology is impacting the business of documentary production with force. Playback spoke with several documentary producers to discuss the opportunities and pitfalls uncovered by the new image-gathering technologies….

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Humpty Dumpty’s new BBQ Nacho Chips have bite, and their Party Mix is so good you just can’t help but ‘hoover’ them down….

* Toon Boom partners with Stan Lee Media…

Despite the star-spangled title, the Lions Gate Entertainment feature American Psycho was shot in Toronto and helmed by an Ontario-born director. Consistent with this Canadian content, audio editing was performed at Toronto’s Tattersall Sound….

Citytv in Toronto has launched Pulse24.com, describing the new website as an online complement to its all-news specialty service, CablePulse24, and its street-front news program City Pulse….

Some may suggest director Jim Lotter’s commercial work is ‘Faaan-tastic!’ Or so sayeth the talent in his popular and oft-airing Cash For Life lottery spot. The Minnesota-based, Big Films-repped director spends a lot of time shooting north of the border, and,…

Toronto’s Cuppa Coffee Animation had a lot of Texans tipping their big ol’ Texas-size cowboy hats recently when it won 14 awards at the WorldFest – Houston Film Festival….

Vancouver: A new partner of Stratford Internet Technologies of Vancouver has purchased Urban Peasant Productions – maker of 650 22-minute episodes of the cbc cooking show Urban Peasant – and will remake the show for broadcast and webcast this September….

Montreal: BBR Productions’ first shoot as part of the L’Equipe Spectra group is Armistead Maupin’s Further Tales of the City, the third round for television of the author’s freaky stories of life and love in 1970s San Francisco. Showtime has acquired…

* Mentors takes bouquet of nine Rosies…

Kim Todd’s recently launched production company Original Pictures has landed its first project – the $25-million family feature Ogopogo, to be shot this summer in Winnipeg….