Production volume in Saskatchewan dipped in 1999 to $27 million from $58 million the previous year. In particular, indigenous production dropped more than 50% to $20.2 million from $42.7 million in 1998….

Crew Call, a new initiative to grow the industry’s skilled workforce just announced by the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Industries Association will be backed by $350,000 in funding from the federal and provincial governments….

Psst – want to get into moviemaking? Just get hold of a digital camera, take out a bank loan, and become a guerilla….

For mid-sized production companies based in Vancouver, the advantages of their location seem to outweigh the disadvantages….

Toronto ad agency Ammirati Puris Lintas has brought together the talents of Toronto’s Flashcut Editing and dave (Dome Audio Video & Effects), a division of NetStar Communications, to provide post-production and visual effects on its new Labatt Blue Light campaign. The…

Naturalism may be at the core of the new Ammirati Puris Lintas Labatt Blue Light campaign, but the ads’ tag image provides a striking trick effect accomplished by William Cameron of Toronto design and animation house GAMMA Studios and Mike Morey…

*Nelvana eyes Internet, CD-ROM potential…

Vancouver: West Coast entrants successfully moving on to the swimsuit part of the contest – otherwise known as the eip phase of the Canadian Television Fund sweepstakes – include some newcomers among the renewals….

It’s an exciting time for Gemini Award-winning editor Allan Novak (The Newsroom, Foolish Heart, Kids in the Hall). On the heels of the premiere of his first self created and -produced tv series, Loving Spoonfuls, he’s headed down to l.a. to…

Sandy Walker and Omar Wakil are both members of the Competition Law Group of the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch….

*Septieme Porte wins at FIFA…

Montreal: Documentary director Bernard Emond (L’Epreuve du feu, L’Instant et la patience) is directing his first feature film, La femme qui boit. The 24-day shoot goes from March 20 to April 21, with Bernadette Payeur of production house acpav producing….