Winnipeg: ytv has licensed Credo Entertainment’s 13-part action adventure series SpyFly. The project is a Canada-u.k. coproduction with Winklemania out of Oxford, England. itv has taken broadcast rights for the u.k. Combining live action with some cgi, the kids series centres…

Renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry) will present his new film, The Wind Will Carry Us, April 6 as part of the Local Heroes International Film Festival in Edmonton. Also presenting his latest work at the fest, March 31…

* AAC Kids, the new youth programming arm of Alliance Atlantis Communications, has named Alan Gregg as its new director of development. Gregg’s first projects will include overseeing productions such as Yvon of the Yukon and Old Tom. Gregg was most…

Avion Films director Jean-Marc Piche is a man about North America who is intensely proud to be a Canadian. The spot director divides his professional life between Toronto, Montreal and the u.s., and estimates he’s on the road 20 days a…

In two slushy, gray days in February, a team assembled by Apple Box Productions is gathered at Applied Innovation in Vaughn, north of Toronto, to put together two commercials for Purolator Courier’s purolator. com service. The spots are to be humorous…

Again this year, Labatt Breweries is attaching its Blue brand to the holy grail of Canadian sports fantasies, the Stanley Cup. The seven-spot ‘Out of the Blue’ campaign, through Toronto agency Ammirati Puris Lintas, began airing this month and will continue…

Blink Pictures’ Sam Welch is a Canadian director, living in a Canadian city, doing Canadian jobs. In a marketplace of open borders and hot international directors, he is making his stand for The Great White North through an innovative style and…

Sam Sniderman has one of the most famous faces in Canadian retail. As Toronto’s best-known record peddler, Sam ‘The Record Man’ Sniderman is known for his enduring and successful chain of record stores. The Sam’s chain has been in business for…

Toronto has a new location for commercial production shoots. Moxi Studios is a 1,050-square-foot commercial production studio tucked into the Church at Berkeley, a Heritage Building originally constructed in 1871 as a Wesleyan Methodist place of worship….

Suzanne Allan has joined Toronto’s Imported Artists as executive producer….

Montreal: Cinematographer Pierre Gill had to be at the top of his form working with director Christian Duguay on the Alliance Atlantis Communications historical spectacle Joan of Arc. Duguay’s vision tends towards the outsized and the demanding, and capturing the story…

Montreal: Alliance Atlantis Communications is folding its structured financing and brokered production services business, including Alliance Atlantis Equicap, into a new and larger joint venture, Sentinel Hill Alliance Atlantis Equicap….