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Broadcast
Hush or slush?
Docs
Speaking of sex
Full slate and new studio for Collideascope
Halifax: In addition to winning the CFTPA Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Collideascope Digital Productions has a full slate on its hands heading into 2005. So full, in fact, that the Halifax-based toonco is adding a new animation studio to handle the workload.
The new studio, which should be up and running by Feb. 7, means the addition of 40 animators and staff, making Collideascope the largest animation house east of Montreal.
Service
Nanoo, nanoo
Youth
How to compete with SpongeBob
Producers look for solutions at Prime Time
Since last year’s Prime Time in Ottawa, the CFTPA’s annual powwow, producers have gotten much of what they asked for.
Trophies to Collideascope, Ellis
The CFTPA will hand out its annual industry awards at Prime Time in Ottawa on Feb. 4, starting at 12:30 p.m. at the Westin hotel. This year’s winners are Halifax prodco Collideascope Digital Productions and Toronto producer Stephen Ellis.
Have Canada/U.K. copros had their last gasp?
Having grossed more than US$44 million at the North American box office at press time, White Noise has been a massive success for Canadian prodco Brightlight Pictures out of Vancouver and U.K. coproducer Gold Circle Films. Nevertheless, Brightlight says it isn’t pursuing any new Canada/U.K. copro deals, due to last year’s changes in U.K. international copro rules.
Is TV getting too sexy?
The uproar caused by Janet Jackson’s ‘wardrobe malfunction’ at last year’s Super Bowl triggered an unprecedented outcry – from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, if from few others.
DOP Seager lights scary hit thriller
‘It was one of my best experiences in filmmaking,’ says veteran British director of photography Chris Seager of his gig lensing the Canada/U.K. supernatural thriller White Noise.
Panasonic, Discovery scale Everest
Before Canadian Adventure Productions president Ben Webster took his 35-member climbing team and production crew on the expedition for Ultimate Survival: Everest, a six-hour miniseries for Discovery Channel Canada, he knew exactly what he’d be up against.
Canon XL2 aimed at filmmakers
Canon’s new XL2 miniDV camcorder builds on the manufacturer’s success with the XL1 and XL1S models, and, according to the company, is a far more filmmaker-friendly production tool.
New products from Kodak, Fuji
The two major film stock manufacturers have new color negative stocks for filmmakers.
What’s shooting on which format
With each passing year, the image-capture options available to filmmakers expand.
Greene up for Indie
Toronto director of photography David Greene (Siblings) has been nominated for a 2005 Independent Spirit Award for best cinematography. Greene got the nod for his work on the Toronto-shot FX Networks cable movie Redemption, starring Jamie Foxx, who received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance.
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