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Keeping the peace in HD
Actor Rick Roberts stars as Major Gavin Hart in Whizbang Films’ upcoming ZOS: Zone of Separation, an eight-part drama series – shot entirely in HD – about the struggle of peacekeepers trying to enforce a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in a fictional, Sarajevo-like town.
From a basement apartment to China in 25 years
Rob Sim smiles like a Cheshire cat as he holds up the red-stamped Mandarin document that permits his 25-year-old Toronto-based Sim Video to officially open a branch in Beijing, host city of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
L.A. facility provides Hollywood clients with personal touch
Sim Video Los Angeles is ‘a boutique facility,’ says Jim Martin, Sim Video’s VP of U.S. operations and new business developments. ‘We’re not a massive rental house, so we’re able to offer a more personal touch when dealing with our clients.
Camera crazy on Canadian Idol
Capturing the joy and tears of the Canadian Idol competition is a key part of the job for Sim Video, which has supplied video cameras to the popular Canadian series since day one.
New Greenaway film shot on Viper cam
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival is unspooling two Canadian HD-shot feature films, including the new Peter Greenaway film Nightwatching, coproduced by Christine Haebler through Vancouver’s No Equal Entertainment.
Sim juices the Grass Valley Viper with better Venom
Sim Video modifies cameras based on feedback from its DOP clients, according to video camera guru Rob Sim, co-owner and president of Sim Group.
Unitholders sell to Sachs
There was only one objection and it took just 11 minutes for Goldman Sachs to scoop up the remaining 49% of Motion Picture Distribution at a special meeting on Friday
Muse making Jekyll MOW
Dougray Scott cast as both sides of split personality, while a second horror, Day of the Drones, goes to camera at the Montreal production house
Mystery TV gets a makeover
New on-air look will be matched by a redesigned website and promotional campaign in the fall, looking to build on the digichannel’s strong numbers
Alliance Atlantis picks Maven
New broadband players will launch for major Alliance Atlantis specialty nets, and they’ll come with plenty of analytics for advertisers
Lionsgate signs $400-million deal with Quebec
Sixteen film and TV projects are headed for la belle province following a deal with the investment arm of the government aimed at breathing new life into Montreal
Industry at odds over fixing CTF
Corus breaks ranks with other broadcasters over proposed new media fund, while CBC, producers and educasters take sides against splitting the fund in two. Public hearings likely, say sources
Small release for Mommy doc
Your Mommy Kills Animals is trying its luck in Toronto and Saskatoon, looking to expand west and into Montreal
Brunton gets Smart
Global has handed its version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? to John Brunton of Insight, following his work on the Canadian-ized Deal or No Deal
CBC signs Raptors
Three-year deal covers between ten and 20 games per season — putting Canada’s only NBA team back on network television for the first time in four years
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