It was after attending an international forensic science conference a few years ago in Vancouver that Chris Haddock was struck with the idea of building a show around a coroner….

Although tv veteran Peter Mitchell has been in the running for Gemini Awards in the past, this year’s double nomination marks the first time he is up for his writing talent….

‘It was an organic evolution,’ says Gil Cardinal, looking back at the chain of events that led to his first experience directing a tv miniseries, Big Bear, and which led to a 1999 Gemini nomination….

‘The real discovery I have made over the last couple of years is collaboration – it’s all about collaboration in every possible way,’ says writer/director Tim Southam of the filmmaking process….

Aviator Pictures/Rave Films director Linda Hassani and dop John Houtman landed two days for Sun Rype through Palmer Jarvis ddb. Deb Tregale handled post at Coast Mountain….

*Big, bigger, biggest…

Shooting Milgaard in Winnipeg, where much of the prison saga of wrongfully convicted teenager David Milgaard actually unfolded, made for ‘an intensely creative experience,’ says director Stephen Williams….

‘A television hack – that’s what I am,’ says Toronto director Stefan Scaini, whose episodic television work spans dramatic shows such as Street Legal, Side Effects, Forever Knight and Fast Track to family series like Ready or Not, My Secret Identity,…

Santa Claus went out with a banquet in his honor and a temperamental Spiderman took the time to perfect his golf game. Now joining them in retirement are two of the most famous animated television icons, Gumby and Pokey….

Thanks in part to the MuchMusic Video Awards, the Canadian production spotlight shifts for a night each year to some well-deserving young soldiers that wade in Canada’s film trenches….

Alan DiFiore and Keith Ross Leckie split a Gemini nomination for their collaborative scriptwriting efforts on the acclaimed Milgaard….

Just over three years ago, director Raymond Saint-Jean and producer Michel Ouellette of Montreal-based Cine Qua Non Films heard about a series of one-hour documentaries on French writers being commissioned out of France….