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Visually affecting the industry
Refusing to rest on the laurels strewn on them for their work on films and TV shows like The Incredible Hulk and Stargate: Atlantis, digital producers in Ontario and British Columbia have taken matters into their own hands, forming associations to represent their interests in Canada and abroad.
How do you eat an elephant?
Paul Day is an editor who has worked in film and television for 20 years, and is one of the founders of the newly formed Canadian Cinema Editors association. His credits include the series Dead Like Me, Odyssey 5, This Is Wonderland and The 4400. He’s received nominations for outstanding picture editing awards from the Directors Guild of Canada and the Geminis. He’s now cutting season two of The Movie Network/Movie Central series The Weight, about two cops living in a suburban wasteland.
Avid gets Red
Avid Technology’s announcement that it has signed a R3D Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) licence agreement with Red Digital Cinema Camera Company is the latest indicator of the swift rise of the hot new Red One camera in the marketplace.
Toronto shop gets with high definition
Toronto-based video shop Post Producers Digital has upgraded to high-definition television standards.
Digital Alchemy shows new stripes
Vancouver-based Digital Alchemy Entertainment is a creative and innovative animation and visual effects studio that has grown from a two-man operation to a team of 30 artists. Its services include post, visual effects and animation for feature-length films, episodic series, commercials and corporate videos.
Worries out west over CTF
With its future perhaps in the balance as Canadians head to the polls, producers say the fund has done much to build business in the region
Teletoon inks output with Marvel
All-platform deal delivers nearly 200 episodes of Wolverine, Iron Man and the rest to toon channels
Skogland wins at VIFF
Fifty Dead Men Walking takes best western prize at close of festival. Bessai’s Mothers & Daughters wins over audiences for most popular Canadian film
Exec shuffle at Rainmaker
Jennifer Twiner-McCarron upped to VP of production. Disney, ILM vets named to new positions
Worst Driver returns to Discovery
Reality looks to build on earlier jump in key demos
Banff adds sports prize
Next year’s Rockies to include award for best sports program
Canwest, Fox share Secret
Six-part spin on U.K. format about misplaced millionaire to simulcast in December
Mehta readies $35-million Maru epic
True story of immigrants turned away by Canada in 1914 marks most expensive project to date for writer/director and partner David Hamilton. Indian star Akshay Kumar signed to lead
Latest Buzz goes live
Tween hit brings in a crowd and Emmy winner Brian Richards
Canwest, Rogers partner on VOD
First deal of its kind in Canada to offer full roster of network programming
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