Following are the judges for this year’s First Cut Awards:…

Hanging around Imported Artists taking his cues from the many directors passing through its doors, Wayne Craig has rapidly worked his way up the ranks from pm to director, and after less than a year on the Toronto spot shop’s roster,…

Some philosopher once said something like: For those who feel, life is tragedy; for those who think, it’s comedy. Based on that simple guideline, Sparks director David Popescu can be considered a thinking person’s director, and it would appear, quite a…

Heavily influenced by the all-Canadian witticism of sctv and inspired by the films of Orson Welles, Toronto-based director Wade Sherman is making heads turn with the simplistic style and ironic humor signature on much of his recent commercial work….

Director Akim Triebsch of Applebox Productions, Toronto, has only been directing commercials for a year and a half, but he has already garnered a substantial amount of praise and notoriety within the advertising community. With award-winning spots for Yuk Yuk’s and…

The Players Film Company’s Bradley Walsh had a fire lit under him early in his career when a creative director he went to for advice said Walsh might not have what it takes to be a director….

With increasingly tighter deadlines and shrinking budgets, Canadian film and television composers have taken the hard road to become some of the most efficient scoremakers in the world….

The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada is in the midst of several initiatives aimed at stimulating the recording of music for film and television. One of its key initiatives is promoting its Canadian Film Production Agreement,…

After what can only be called a year of ups and downs, socan and its 20,000-plus Canadian membership still have a lot more fight left in them. socan (the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) is taking a…

Soon after starting preparations for Alliance Atlantis Communications’ Joan of Arc it was clear this was going to be a wild ride to someplace we’d never been. I started keeping a record of the twists and turns ’cause I love to…

The cbc is appealing the recent crtc decision rejecting its application for a French-language arts specialty channel. The appeal to Cabinet follows the Commission’s rejection of all four of Radio-Canada’s applications for French-language specialty channels. Grounds of the appeal include that…

Launch of the Canadian distribution Show Case, sponsored by Team Canada.Left to right – Shelley Middlebrook, Brunico Communications Inc; Pat Ferns, Banff Television Festival; Trina McQueen, Discovery Canada and Team Canada/Heritage Canada Representative…