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Big Bang gets Inferno makes name change

Montreal’s Big Bang Animation has changed its name to Big Bang FX/Animation and added Discreet Logic’s Inferno software to its portfolio – which already includes Softimage, Eddie, After Effects and Flint….

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Krystal innovating

Krystal Music & Sound Design composer/producer David Krystal is providing digital asylum for producers with a new gear configuration promising greater finesse for mixing….

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Rogers wins Promax gold

The Promax Awards, held June 12, capped off the Promax/bda show held this month in San Francisco….

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Patten, Chevrier reunite for Refugee

For the first time since making Warrior Songs: King Gesar in 1996, the first film ever to receive Film nb financing, director Lesley Ann Patten of Ziji Productions in Halifax and producer Cecile Chevrier of Productions du Phare-Est in Moncton have…

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Real-life soap unfolds in Toronto hospital

Shots flash on the screen of a woman being rushed into emergency with her arm so badly broken bones protrude through the skin….

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Shavick: new focus on Canadian projects

Vancouver: Production begins July 12 on what is being called a turning point in the history of Shavick Entertainment, a veteran service-production provider in Vancouver….

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E-mail can be used against you

Alex Du is a lawyer at the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch and a member of the firm’s KNOWlaw* Group….

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Labrecque shoots centennial doc on Anticostian utopia

Montreal: Jean-Claude Labrecque’s latest documentary chronicles the little known story of an eccentric and very rich French family of chocolate makers who built a utopian settlement on remote Anticosti Island at the end of the 19th century….

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Tiedemann snags cuppa Campbell’s

The Partners’ Film Company director George D’Amato and dop Miroslaw Baszak landed three days for the Business Development Bank of Canada out of bcp, Montreal. Jeff Bessner edited at Partners’ Post….

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Expo: ‘Screw Canada’

To paraphrase one of the production people in attendance at this year’s Showbiz Expo in l.a., the theme of the event appeared to be ‘Screw Canada.’ According to the various Canadians who journeyed to the show as exhibitors or simply as…

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Saatchi & Saatchi/Playback First Cut Awards

Following are the results of the fourth annual Saatchi & Saatchi/Playback First Cut Awards, recognizing new Canadian commercial directors. This year, we are presenting one First Cut winner and four runners-up in alphabetical order, rather than presenting the top five finishers…