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Rainmaker invests future in compression
Vancouver: The shareholders of post-production company Rainmaker Digital Pictures are expecting that compression will expand their investment fortunes….
Openings: Blue Moon folds over weekend
Philip Spink’s family fantasy Once in a Blue Moon had its Toronto theatrical release Friday, June 21, pulling in a disappointing $240 over the three-day weekend….
Chum’s New VR to target kids
Come September, Chum Television launches into the children’s business as Toronto-area kids’ back-to-school blues are somewhat alleviated by Big Bad Beetleborgs antics on a new after-school block on Barrie-based ‘The New VR.’…
Programming: Regional news: three winning formulas
Vancouver: Shortly after he started as atv’s news director last October, Bob McLaughlin took a call from a local resident wanting him to cover a community event in Port Hawkesbury, n.s….
News Brief: Vidatron opens Eyes
A vancouver company dedicated to the production of behind-the-scenes ‘featurettes, news magazine segments and electronic press kits for the film industry has been launched by The Vidatron Group of Vancouver….
Commercial directors hitting the silver screen: Kari Skogland, The Size of Watermelons
‘It’s a Generation x comedy – it’s the story of a slacker taking the first steps to the rest of his life,’ says Kari Skogland of her fresh new feature film, The Size of Watermelons. This is also a first step…
Commercial directors hitting the silver screen: Eliza Berry, La Femme de Nullepart
Elaine, a jaded cabaret performance artist, leaves behind an unfaithful fiancee and embarks on an impressionistic adventure in search of a life. The ‘girl from nowhere’ travels by train, moped, ferry, taxi and plane, wandering the crowded streets of New York…
Commercial directors hitting the silver screen
The advance of three Canadian directors, Bronwen Hughes, Kari Skogland and Eliza Barry, into feature directing at roughly the same time seems notable. That the three women are former commercial directors, and that all have done tours of duty at The…
Commercial directors hitting the silver screen: Bronwen Hughes, Harriet the Spy
Based on the 1964 children’s book by Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy is the story of an 11-year-old girl aspiring to be a writer. Acting on the advice of her nanny, who says to be a writer one must first learn…
Word on the Street: Money talks, Chase walks
Not one to dally, Steve Chase got a Hollywood right of passage out of the way early when, convinced his work was being compromised, he walked away from his first feature project….
Commercial Directions: Radke’s Jones shoots Bell pool
At Avion, director/dop Simon Mestel wrapped two days for a 30-second Dynamic Mutual Funds spot through Echo Advertising….
Cavallaro: it’s all coming together
Montreal: Cosimo Cavallaro was voted Director of the Year at the recent Publicite Club de Montreal annual advertising and creative awards competition….
Ontario Scene: Funbag, Sullivan may team up for animation property
It’s no secret that Ottawa’s Funbag Animation has been keeping company with Sullivan Entertainment in attempts to forge a distribution agreement, but it’s looking like the two companies may team up on the production and direction of an animation property….
B.C. Scene: New provincial film minister Priddy an unknown quantity
Vancouver: B.C.’s new minister of film is Penny Priddy. She takes over the Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture from Bill Barlee, who was narrowly defeated in the May 28 provincial election….
Quebec Scene: Teen idol Richter fights aliens in first Quebec/B.C. co-production
Montreal: Ancient ufos, a science-fiction comic book that comes to life, and teenage heroes who save the planet are the driving elements in Laserhawk, an f/x-intensive feature film from director Jean Pellerin and producers Pieter Kroonenburg and John Curtis….
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