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New F/X/prosthetics shop
There’s no better way for a special effects/prosthetics shop to open a new location than with a Halloween party and that’s how Toronto’s Complections International celebrated its new 8,000-square-foot space at 85 St. Nicholas Street….
Canada, France discuss animation financing structures
Montreal: Coproduction financing structures are at the top of the agenda for the upcoming Canada/ France Mixed Commission meetings in Paris, Dec. 12-13….
Music, post sectors organize against CBC
Members of the post-production and music industries in Ontario and Manitoba are instituting action plans in response to the cbc offering its facility resources to the private market, but are meeting with various levels of success in establishing a dialogue with…
Wildscreen fetes nature docs
Matthew Todd Paproski is a journalist and independent filmmaker with Vancouver-based Venturetainment. He is currently working on the doc Cougar Crossing….
Network: Short takes on people things and what’s happening out there in the prod tech universe
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Word: BoM thought big, got big reaction
Perhaps not since Calvin’s wood paneling and pubescent crotchettes has an ad campaign generated such an outpouring of apocalyptic angst. ‘Neath the rhetoric are some great looking spots from Vickers & Benson and comm.bat films director Paul Cade, churned out within…
Commercial Directions: More Fruit of the Loom for Baxter Smith
Partners’ director Mitch Gabourie picked up a day for the Dairy Farmers of Ontario through frb. Chris Soos shot and Ross Corindia edited the 30-second spot. Gabourie and Soos also teamed up on a one-day shoot for Sony Playstation through Segal…
Ontario Scene: Random Factory project highlights other Windfields star
He’s a Canadian legend who ran fast. And there were no steroid scandals to mar his reputation….
Quebec Scene: Clermont, The Peacekeeper and Lundgren anchor Forestier debut
Montreal: There is a generous menu of new and promising program leads out of mipcom, English-track drama from Cite-Amerique and Newfoundland’s Passage Films, animation coproduction from Cine-Groupe, and extended doc series from Verseau International and Pixcom Productions and their new European…
News Brief: VIFF winners
The 15th annual Vancouver International Film Festival wrapped with a record attendance of 130,000, up from 120,000 last year, and box office revenues climbed to $680,000. The festival culminated in an awards gala where Bruce McDonald’s Hard Core Logo was honored…
B.C. Film funds 14
British Columbia Film reports that seven documentaries, four television series, two features and one mow received $1.58 million in funds during the three-month period ending Sept. 30, 1996….
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Binchmarks: The art of the deal: Litwak book gives basics of entertainment law
John Andrade is an articling student at the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch….
Storyboards: A plane story
It’s Manchester, Eng., 1949, and two Scudder investment researchers are led into the dim caverns of an aircraft research facility. In black and white, with exquisite plays on light and shadow setting a mood of dramatic expectancy, an inventor reveals drawings…
Special Report on Children’s Programming, Merchandising & Marketing: Merchandising gameplans
Due to the impact – reach, volume, breadth and profitability – of children’s shows’ merchandise lines, it’s getting hard to find a kids’ show that doesn’t have character licensing, logo branding or some form of line extension attached to it….
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