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Motionworks restructures
Vancouver: The restructuring of embattled multimedia player Motion Works Group was approved by shareholders June 20 in Vancouver at the company’s agm. But shareholders had little choice since there were no other options to keep the company operating….
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CanWest Global’s success is being used against it by its competitors….
Corrections/clarifications
In ‘Sinbad’s virtual stars’ (Playback, June 17, p. 1) model-making credit for the 12-foot miniature of Sinbad’s vessel should have gone to Brian Cole Models. Prosthetics for the show are being created by Ron Stefaniuk of Toronto’s Quantum Leap….
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….
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