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Ontario Scene: Toronto stands in for New York, Moncton stands in for Toronto
Chew on this for a minute. Sugith Varughese – actor, writer, director and recent Gemini nominee for On My Mind – will direct his first feature this year, a romantic comedy based on his own script and set to be produced…
B.C. Scene: Cold Squad hottest candidate for Baton’s Vancouver series
Vancouver: A series about detectives investigating old homicides in Vancouver is the premise for the leading prospect for Baton Broadcasting’s patronage now that civt has become the newest group of call letters in Vancouver-Victoria broadcasting….
The Writers: Bogosian: from stage to screen
Stage and screen writer Eric Bogosian’s latest effort subUrbia opens Feb. 28 across Canada. Adapted from Bogosian’s stageplay of the same name, the film tracks the reminiscences and verbal sparring of a group of 20-year-olds who gather for an all-nighter in…
Quebec Scene: Genie award-winning team reunited on The Red Violin
Montreal: In The Red Violin, a major motion picture from Toronto’s Rhombus Media and director Francois Girard, the soul of the wife of a brilliant late 17th century violin maker guides a sacred instrument on an epic journey across time and…
Word: Schofield joins Imported
Imported Artists has added New York-based Stan Schofield to its roster. With 20 years’ experience on the agency side, Schofield began directing in 1984 and established a body of work specializing in dialogue and storytelling, with credits including Nike, at&t, McDonald’s…
Commercial Directions: Straiton wins lottery, Taco Bell and gas
At Imported Artists director Richard D’Alessio shot two days in Toronto and Miami with dop Simon Mestel for H&R Block tax prep through Young & Rubicam. Executive producer on the three spots was Christina Ford and editor was Mick Griffin at…
Smarties spot goes beyond claymation
The two chimps conducting Smarties i.q. experiments may be puzzling some folks as to how their engagingly lifelike antics were achieved. It was, as suspected, stop-motion animation, but according to MacLaren McCann producer Franca Piacente, a very unique version thereof. The…
Special Report on Production in Alberta: Fade to gray
Calendar 1996 was a blockbuster year for Alberta production, but there were no whoops of glee in celebration….
Special Report on Production in Alberta: Producers’ dilemma
Rather than celebrating its 10th year on Alberta pastures planning future bumper crops of homegrown and produced product, Great North Productions is being forced to look to other provinces to shoot its programs and worries over the future of the Alberta…
Special Report on Commercial Production: B.C. shoots for high- end work
As tv series, mow and feature production flocks to the West Coast, bringing monsters and mayhem as it goes, the commercial industry has dealt with its own demons of smaller accounts and ads fleeing eastward. Vancouver companies are now positioning themselves…
Special Report on Commercial Production: Montreal faces budget crunch
While Montreal’s commercial producers report clients are not expanding their advertising budgets, they say the problem is made worse by internationally induced demands for increasingly sophisticated work….
Special Report on Commercial Production: There’s energy in the air
For the Toronto commercial production industry, it’s a classic good news, bad news scenario: budgets bite but a newly invigorated creative and work ethic has in many cases produced better spots; while globalization has taken away some of the work coming…
Special Report on Commercial Production: Axyz off to an animated start
Axyz Animation is a new player on the Toronto field where numerous animation houses have cropped up of late. But with five jobs wrapped after only two months in the game, it’s clear partners John Stollar and John Coldrick have managed…
Special Report on Commercial Production: Bascombe: corporate strategies
‘The tv business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.’ – Hunter S. Thompson…
Special Report on Commercial Production: Cactus: good times, new directions
In the competitive world of commercial production, Vancouver’s Cactus Productions has evolved and expanded, adding new producers and directors to its roster, bringing the once-small regional company to a global scale….
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