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Programming: Knowledge wooing back viewers
Vancouver: British Columbia’s public broadcaster is working hard to win back viewers it lost to the specialty channels launched in January 1995….
Commercial fare best bet in Japan copro
Montreal: An sro crowd of industry professionals listened closely to producer Masato Hara, director general of the All Nippon Producers Association, as he traced the long-term decline of the Japanese theatrical distribution business and pointed to a tough, market-driven national production…
Palomar enters Vancouver market
Vancouver companies Heartscape Pictures, Still Water Pictures, Payne & Gilbert Music Publishing and the new Orca Pacific Studios have entered into ‘a legal, financial and creative partnership’ called Palomar Entertainment, according to Palomar principal and Heartscape president Shona Miko….
Word: Bucolic film shoot ends in fight scene
What do you get when you combine a small town in Southern Ontario tobacco country, a local kick-boxing champion long on lab-processed testosterone but short on manners, a gaggle of city-dwelling, white-pants-wearing film fairies and a little grain-based lubrication? As Spy…
News Brief: Rest Stop
Former Partners’ Film Company director Eliza Berry has presold her latest short, Rest Stop, to the cbc….
Commercial Directions: D’Amico and Fannin get Life
Ron Baxter Smith of Kessler Irish Films shot and directed a 30-second spot for Searle Canada through Ranscombe & Company/Healthwise. Chameleon’s Andy Attalai edited. Also at Kessler Irish, director David Strupp wrapped a day for Mix 99.9, with Doug Koch the…
Storyboards: Art nouveau
Over the next month, expect to hear reports of art gallery attendance soaring to phenomenal levels….
Four French-track services get the nod
Montreal: On the French-track side, the crtc has licensed teletoon (Family Channel/ytv/Cinar Films/Nelvana), Radiomutuel’s La Canal Vie, the Radiomutuel/chum channel Musimax and Tele-Metropole’s La Canal Nouvelles, all to be carried on basic or extended basic at ‘high (85%) penetration levels.’…
Ontario Scene: Lacewood jumps from kids’ fare to late night
Well it’s not Ralph Benmergui, but Ottawa’s Lacewood Productions is in development with the cbc on a pilot for a live-action, late-night, interview format show. Lacewood president Sheldon Wiseman says it’s a combination of in-studio live interviews with a lot of…
Quebec Scene: Kids’ specialists Hood, La Fete shoot coming-of-age feature
Montreal: Midway through six weeks of filming at a rambling turn-of-the-century apple farm in beautiful downtown Rougemont, conditions couldn’t have been rosier for cast and crew on the Productions La Fete feature film Dancing on the Moon….
B.C. Scene: August blooms with over $220K in development, production
Vancouver: The last few weeks of August proved a windfall for Vancouver producers securing development and production money….
Video Design’s numbers game
During the nfl regular season kick-off this year on the Turner Sports Network, viewers were treated to the usual gridiron glory and to a wealth of statistical information, courtesy Toronto’s Video Design….
Network: Short takes on people, things and what’s shaking out there in the prod tech universe
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Special Report: Toronto International Film Festival: It’s a fest, then a market
As the 21st annual Toronto International Film Festival reaches its usual frenzy – as locals skip work to catch a flick while industry types sigh at the box office – the question arises of how to strike the right balance between…
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