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News Brief: New Sask. MOW
Shaftesbury Films and Baton Broadcasting have signed a development deal for an mow based on a novel from Saskatchewan-based mystery novel writer Gail Bowne….
Hitting The Screens
What happens to all those Canadian features after a couple screenings at local film festivals?…
Programming
Mid-season trend identification is never a walk in the park, and with Superbowl festivities giving the top 10 that CanWest domination feel and ACNielsen ratings awol for part of January, a shift in the programming landscape is difficult to peg. But…
Video Innovations: Online finishing raises new issues
Subsequent to a shift to nonlinear editing, the post industry faces yet another major reorientation with the move to nonlinear online finishing of projects. Toward that possible end, post companies and editing shops are striving to anticipate the next investments they…
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Major Surrey studio planned
On Feb. 1, Surrey City Hall saw the unveiling of The Surrey Film Studio Project a proposal to build a $40 million film facility pegged ‘the most complete outside of l.a.’…
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Openings: ‘Amazing’ showing for Powder Room
Ann Kennard’s National Film Board documentary The Powder Room was ‘the surprise of the program,’ according to Tom Litvinskas, spokesperson for Festival Cinemas. Calling the attendance ‘amazing,’ Litvinskas says the doc a candid exploration of what the women talk about…
B.C. Scene: Copps tour of Vancouver leaves film questions unanswered
Vancouver: A meeting mid-January between Heritage Minister Sheila Copps and West Coast film insiders was less than satisfying, say local film executives….
Ontario Scene: There’ll be cube vans galore as Film Centre teams hit the streets
In February and March, six teams from the Canadian Film Centre will be descending on Toronto neighborhoods producing a veritable bounty of new shorts. First up is Uncle from writer/director Chris Grismer and Cape Bretoner Michael Melski, a playwright-turned-screenwriter and former…
The archival saga of the blues at the CBC
‘Festival’s 90 minute presentation of The Blues on Wednesday night was in a class by itself a pure television show, entirely genuine, and as such a classic of its kind. Here we had honest people talking sincerely and singing from…
Sampson left out of the picture
Paddy Sampson, The Blues’ producer/ director, has not seen the new footage, and in fact, although he would have cooperated, says he was not consulted on the new production at all. ‘When I heard about the project I phoned several people…
Commercial Directions
At Spy Films, director Pete Henderson is shooting three days with dop Sean Valentini for a new Molson Canadian campaign through M2. The spots will be edited by Gillian McCarthy at Third Floor and produced by Shannon Barnes. Subsequently, Henderson will…
Storyboards: Cooool!
How do you sell Canada to American tourists in February?…
Word: New faces, new place for Players
Consistently producing top-quality results and determinedly undertaking to work on better and better projects it’s so crazy, it just might work. Check back with Philip Mellows in a few months after the results of changes at The Players Film Company…
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