Straight from the ‘Why on earth didn’t I think of that?’ file is Thumbnail Spots, a creation of Montreal-based animator and commercial producer Michael Mills. In business since 1974 creating animated ads for a long list of national advertisers, Michael Mills…

Rawdon, Que.: Ichabod, A Legend of Sleepy Hollow first appeared in 1819 in American author Washington Irving’s most famous work, The Sketch Book, a collection of tales and essays which also includes Rip Van Winkle. In a new Canadian tv movie…

The long road traveled by Colleen Murphy’s feature film desire to its just-wrapped Winnipeg shoot began two years ago in Germany at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival….

Sarah Polley, Brendan Fletcher and Diane Ladd are set to lead the cast in John Greyson’s Law of Inclosures, coproduced by Winnipeg’s Buffalo Gal Pictures and Damon D’Oliveira….

In a reversal of the typical tv movie-pilot-followed-by-a-series scenario, the long-running cbc series North of 60 is enjoying new life – and pulling in viewers – as an anthology of mows, the latest installment just wrapping production in Bragg Creek, Alta….

Bill Roberts is secretary-general of the North American Broadcasters Association….

The Canadian features that played the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival showcased the talents of numerous cinematographers at various stages in their craft and career, from first-timers to returning veterans such as Paul Sarossy, who continues his successful collaboration with Atom…

Don’t be fooled by the name. Canadian Actor Online may have been created with Canuck thespians in mind, but it has quickly evolved into one of the most comprehensive Web-based Canadian production resources around….

*Imax acquires DPI…

When Linda, an outspoken lesbian psychotherapist, decided that George, a bulldozer-driving transsexual, was the woman for her, Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage was born….

The 1999 Vancouver International Film Festival’s Trade Forum will feature a new and (some might suggest) improved version of the annual New Filmmakers Day….

The 1999 Vancouver International Film Festival, a 17-day extravaganza running from Sept. 24 to Oct. 10, kicks off with the first-ever Tibetan-language feature The Cup, with which eminent lama Khyentse Norbu makes his directorial debut. The comedy follows two soccer-obsessed monks…