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Peace Arch shares face suspension
Correction
The movie Rub & Tug was edited by Daniel Palmer and supervising editor Saul Pincus, not by director Soo Lyu as reported in the Sept. 2 issue.
Relish, Van Dyke part ways
Top editor and Relish cofounder Chris Van Dyke has left the post shop less than two years after its launch.
Shots & Chasers
MDG Productions
The Best Day of My Life tops WFF prize list
Montreal: Italian director and novelist Cristina Comencini’s touching family drama The Best Day of My Life (Il piu bel giorno della mia vita) is the winner of the Grand Prix des Ameriques, top award for a feature film in competition at this year’s Montreal World Film Festival. The Special Grand Prix Jury prize went to Turkish director Tayfun Pirselimoglu for Innowhereland (Hicbiryerde). The WFF2002 awards were handed out at a gala closing-night ceremony at Place des Arts, Sept. 2.
Where have all the spot animators gone?
Chris Delaney, founder of Vancouver animation house Delaney & Friends Cartoon Productions, began to notice a lull in demand for 2D animation four years ago and it hasn’t shown any signs of picking up. In the early to mid-’90s, Delaney was producing 30 to 40 spots a year, and now, he says, he’s lucky to get eight or 10.
Diversification the key for animators
Sylvain Taillon is a partner and executive producer at TOPIX, Toronto
The Baroness and the Pig’s all-digital model
Michelle Pfeiffer, Dustin Hoffman and other Hollywood types made their entrances at the Toronto International Film Festival traipsing along a red carpet, while the English Quebec feature The Baroness and the Pig arrived via satellite.
From broadcast to narrowcast: the future of the animated commercial
Ken Stuart is chief technology officer for EK3 a London ON based media technology company and maker of the N-Box.
WonderWorks Montreal unveils FX studio and production plans
Montreal: Two Hollywood-based companies and a Montreal investor group have announced plans to build a $40-million studio complex in suburban Candiac, QC, about 20 minutes from downtown Montreal.
People
* Barrie Usher has resigned as president and CEO and as a director of Cinar Corp. and all its subsidiaries, effective Sept. 15.
Imax cofounder Shaw dies
Giant-screen exhibitor Imax Corp. announced one of its founders, William Shaw, passed away Saturday, Aug. 31 in a Toronto hospital from complications following a heart attack.
VIFF: the more Canadian festival
TIFF might have the glamour of Hollywood stars and starlets ambling down red carpets, but VIFF can boast more Canadian titles.
Canadian Images screens more docs, experimental films
Among the 104 Canadian films at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, organizer Diane Burgess wrote in more than the usual number of documentaries. There are 22 docs in the 2002 Canadian Images program, up from 13 in 2001, including premieres such as Adventures in Breathing by Karen Murray (Life’s Evening Hour) and EVO by noted documentarian Oliver Hockenhull (Building Heaven, Remembering Earth: Confessions of a Fallen Architect).
Stories and videogames focus of VIFF Trade Forum
Snort derisively if you must at the poor reviews and box office of Resident Evil, Wing Commander and both Mortal Kombats. But Melanie Friesen, Trade Forum organizer at the Vancouver International Film Festival, says movies and videogames will be doing a lot more business together in the future, and each industry would be wise to learn from the other. To that end, this year’s three-day Trade Forum, running Sept. 25-27, plus a New Filmmakers Day on Sept. 28, will include a panel discussion about the cross-over between consoles and the big screen.
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