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Vancouver’s muchachos perdidos
If you’re wondering where the boys at Lost Boys Studios really are – they’ve been found. Just look south, way south – to crowded Mexico City. …
Millennium Machine: the Eyes have it
TORONTO’S Eyes Post Group is not the sort of post house that gathers moss. Nor will it allow its competitors to win a game of one-upmanship. In a move that further solidifies it among the top shops in town, Eyes recently…
Lone Eagle takes flight with Popstars
FLYING high off the success of Popstars, Lone Eagle Entertainment is hitting the road again with two more reality series: Popstars II and Search for a Supermodel….
Flashcut, TOYBOX flying high with new cinema ad
For the new generation of Canadian film buffs, Taxi Advertising has made sure ‘The Fly’ means more to moviegoers than a bug buzzing around crying ‘Help me.’ Now, thanks in part to Flashcut’s Gord Koch and Command Post/TOYBOX senior Inferno artist…
Nomadic Pictures in the works with two thrillers
CALGARY-based Nomadic Pictures has one project freshly wrapped and one gearing up to go before the cameras. …
Network pickups net series work for Vancouver
VANCOUVER: As the U.S. networks rolled out their fall schedules earlier this month, B.C. collected a handful of new television series….
Rocket Man Ron Williams
HOW does a director of photography deal with a commercial market he says has declined 50% in the last 12 months? …
Alexis Durand-Brault shoots fast cars, beautiful women
Montreal cinematographer Alexis Durand-Brault says he is ‘probably the youngest DOP in town.’ The cinematographer, who also directs some spots, has been represented by Montreal spot shop La Fabrique d’Images since 1998. He signed his first deal with La Fabrique at…
Cameras roll on Cite-Amerique, Box TV copro Dice
MONTREAL: Cite-Amerique and Box TV of the U.K. have started filming the six-hour, majority Canadian coproduction Dice, billed as a dark, investigative exploration of the obsessive gambling psyche. The story, a psychological thriller set in a small, largely deserted Canadian university…
In focus: Cooke Optics S4 lenses
LES Zellan, chairman of the board for Cooke Optics and North American representative for the U.K. lens manufacturer (through his distribution company ZGC), says ‘at the end of the day the only two things that will really influence the image are…
Turning the camera on Sean Valentini
Sean Valentini has established himself as one of the busiest commercial cinematographers in the country. Over the last decade, the DOP has shot some of the biggest spots for the biggest clients and agencies in the country, racking up awards and…
Standards conversion at Mach 1
IF my cousin in Montreal can be trusted, the downward slide of the NHL’s once-revered Canadiens has many of the city’s youth turning away from Nos Glorieux in favor of – of all things – European football. Meanwhile, on the other…
Sonic: conversion in a convergent world
SONIC Foundry, based out of Madison, Wis., is a player in the world of standards conversion – thanks in part to a little Canadian know-how. Last August, SF completed the purchase of International Image, a Toronto-based service provider for the managing…
Angel Films: Built on vision, passion and that personal touch
‘The shop will be driven by service. The goal is to have a high degree of intimacy and involvement in every project.’…
Problems with real-time captioning
For some advocates of closed captioning, the amount of service available is just fine. Quality, they say, is another matter….
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