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Egypt a partner for post?
With North American production currently flat, Canadian post-production shops would be wise to consider partnering with other industry centres, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade sees Egypt as an ideal market.
Spotlight winners 2003
The Spotlight Awards 2003, the fifth annual gala co-hosted by Women in Film & Video Vancouver and Wired Woman Society, has announced this year’s winners. The celebration, emceed by Stargate SG-1 actor Amanda Tapping, takes place March 1 at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver.
Serial Digital Post opens
Serial Digital Post, an HD-enabled boutique TV post-production shop, has opened its doors in midtown Toronto. Equipped with an HD Avid system and a Symphony, the company offers picture editing, color correction and visual F/X. Credits so far include Hell on Heels: The Battle for Mary Kay and Open House, both HD shows for CBS Television, as well as The Baby Human and Forensics Detectives for Discovery.
Hebert’s Favourite Game opens 21st RVCQ
Montreal: More than 200 productions, including 36 feature films and 59 documentaries, will be screened at the 21st edition of Les Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois, the annual Quebec film and video production retrospective running Feb. 20 to March 2.
Snyder takes helm at Cinar
Stuart C. Snyder has been appointed president and CEO of Cinar Corp.
People
* Kirstine Layfield has been appointed senior VP of lifestyle programming for the broadcasting division of Alliance Atlantis. As of Feb. 24, Layfield assumes overall programming responsibility for Life Network, HGTV, Food Network Canada and Discovery Health Channel.
Vancouver, Toronto top location listing
Vancouver: The West Coast often ranks high on the list of the United Nation’s best places to live. Now Vancouver is topping the list of locations for indie filmmakers, according to the third annual ranking by L.A.-based MovieMaker Magazine. Toronto rates second, beating other locations such as New York and Los Angeles.
At 60, ACTRA revives awards
ACTRA Toronto has announced the nominees for the return of the ACTRA Awards in celebration of the organization’s sixtieth anniversary. Canadian actor and playwright Gordon Pinsent, a three-time Genie Award and five-time Gemini Award winner, will be presented with ACTRA Toronto’s inaugural Award of Excellence.
DGC Ontario targets Air Canada
Air Canada does not show enough homegrown movies or TV shows and should be regulated by the CRTC, according to Peter Rowe, president of the Ontario chapter of the Directors Guild of Canada, in a Jan. 30 speech to this year’s Genie nominees.
New group boosts CBC
Another player entered the lobbying arena last month when Our Public Airwaves, a new advocacy group calling for more funding for public broadcasting, debuted in Ottawa with an open letter to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.
ACT restructures awards
The Alliance for Children in Television will recognize producers and creators of children’s television in Canada at its English-language Awards of Excellence June 2 in Toronto. The awards have been restructured to alternate with French-language awards each year.
Klymkiw in the hot seat
Ottawa: No one can say CBC executive director of network programming Slawko Klymkiw is not a good sport.
Healthy ad market props up media companies in Q1
Rhonda Dyce is a Vancouver-based research analyst covering the media and content sector for investment firm Raymond James.
You think it’s cold now…
Here’s a plan to keep the mood upbeat despite a bad-news year as hundreds of Canadian producers, broadcasters and other industry bigwigs gather for the annual CFTPA conference: Hold the conference in Ottawa in February, throw an opening night cocktail party at the legislature and line delegates up outside for 40 minutes in -30 degree temperatures on windswept Parliament Hill.
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