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Hurt Locker lenser shot upcoming City series
If the gripping hand-held camerawork in The Hurt Locker kept you on the edge of your seat, then you’ve experienced the vision that Toronto-based Iraqi-Canadian Duraid Munajim brought to director Kathryn Bigelow’s remarkable film.
3 Things (plus 2) you may not know about… Debbie Travis
Debbie Travis, decorating diva and TV impressario
Moves & Signings
Search underway to replace Clarkson
Straight Up & Down
+ Maple Pictures has come on board Eli Craig’s offbeat comedy Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, picking up Canadian distribution rights at Sundance, where it bowed in the Midnight program. The deal was negotiated by Maple’s SVP of acquisitions John Bain and Nicolas Chartier of Voltage Pictures, who are representing the filmmakers.
CFTPA 2010: Focus on content and consumer demand
A Cancon event that zeroes in on consumer demand – am I in the right country?
Overall production down 4.3% – but Canuck TV rises mysteriously
Preliminary figures for the CFTPA’s fiscal ’08/09 obtained exclusively by Playback indicate that overall production volume in Canada was down by 4.3% in fiscal ’08/09, largely due to an 18.2% drop in service shoots.
3D TV: Seeing is believing
3D TV ‘is coming like a freight train,’ says Marc Séguin, CFTPA VP feature film and new technology, who notes it was ‘the big buzz’ at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Keynotes focus on the bigger picture
Think macro-picture for keynote sessions because this year’s speakers invented things like the universal bar code.
New funding for web series
Online producers have a new place to turn for funding, following word that the Independent Production Fund plans to support drama series made specifically for the web.
Emily Carr launches social and interactive media center
Emily Carr University of Art + Design is establishing a research center for Internet-based media with its $2.3 million funding grant from the federal governtment’s College Community Innovation Program.
Feds give Sheridan a digital boost
Imagine being a film student and heading off to school knowing you could run into a top filmmaker like Jim Sheridan or a DOP ace like Paul Sarossy. That is a possible scenario for Sheridan College students following the January opening of the institute’s Centre for Real-time Production, located at Pinewood Toronto Studios.
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