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Special Report on Post, Animation and SFX: The animator’s new clothes: Montreal studio leads with a tech hook
It’s a studio, its an animation facility, it’s software, it’s an r&d center. It’s Montreal-based Taarna Studios and it has not only created innovative software and used it as the basis for a breakthrough production but is itself a working demonstration…
News Briefs
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Wall studies film policy
Commissioned by both Industry and Heritage, the final copy of the Wall Communications study of Canadian feature film policy framework has been filed, the latest contribution to the PolyGram Filmed Entertainment debate….
Quebec: TQS in dire straits
Montreal: Groupe Videotron has told the crtc the deeply indebted Television Quatre Saisons network has reached the point of no return….
Perspective: Hirsh: strategy for the future
Montreal: This month, Nelvana raised $20.7 million through the sale of 900,000 subordinate voting shares, including 585,000 shares from treasury and 315,000 from senior management. The shares were sold as special warrants at a price of $23 each. The underwriters, led…
Sweep weeks antics
Among the Christmas specials, interviews with the Duchess, and the Grey Cup game infiltrating the ratings charts mid-November sweeps, new contenders are finding their way into a regular spot in the Canadian primetime top 10….
CBC slashing staff, shows
Comfort and joy were nowhere in sight among the tidings relayed to cbc employees this Black Christmas as it was announced that 2,400 positions will be eliminated at the pubcaster by the end of March and as many as 3,200 by…
At Press Time
Montreal: The first 26 half-hours of the Telescene Communications early teen sitcom Student Bodies have been greenlit for a spring startup by u.s. syndicator Twentieth Television….
New bank option for prods
The Republic National Bank of New York (Canada) is trying to position itself as a boutique, offering producers a film financing alternative out of its Toronto office….
B.C. fears Tel fund will be co-opted to CTCPF
Vancouver: The b.c. film community is bracing for another slap from the Canada Television and Cable Production Fund and is already mobilizing to deflect the blow….
Journal
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Editorial
Best of times, worst of times, wisdom, foolishness; granted it’s the wrong Dickens’ reference for December, but the events of the past 12 months are necessarily couched in broad parameters….
Correction
The Warriors of Virtue article on p. VI-1 of the Dec. 2 Video Inovations issue, names Topix Digital, Vancouver, as a company which contributed elements to the effects-intensive feature – the correct name of the company is TOPIX Computer Graphics and…
NSFDC gets new CEO
Without a chief since Roman Bittman and the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation board of directors parted ways last July, the nsfdc has named a new ceo….
BCMPA hires Hunter
Vancouver: The beleaguered, debt-ridden B.C. Motion Picture Association has hired the heavy-hitting founding director of the Banff Television Festival to bring it into line….
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