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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….
News Brief: 25th Nouveau Cinema
Laetitia Masson’s romance story En Avoir (ou pas) from France has won the $3,000 Louve D’Or prize, awarded to best feature film at the Festival of Nouveau Cinema….
Special Report on Animation & Special Effects: Artists discourse about their gear
What equipment, under the command of the nimble fingers and lively imagination of which effects and animation experts, makes clients positively clamber to bask in the results of their combined genius?…
Special Report on Animation & Special Effects: Animation houses
It’ll be anything but slow at Canada’s animation houses this summer. In between wrangling for more lead time from the u.s. nets and scaring up talent to fill an ever-increasing number of positions, maybe there’ll be a moment or two to…
Special Report on Animation & Special Effects: Talent gets into the driver’s seat
Oh, to be a young, talented storyboardist. The world would be your oyster (or any shellfish you’d prefer). There’s the opportunity for travel, the money, the upward mobility. You wouldn’t be a cog in the wheel of production, you’d be a…
Special Report on Animation & Special Effects: Who’s afraid of the big bad mouse?
‘There are mixed feelings in the animation community towards Disney,’ says Cassandra Schafhausen at Cinar, Montreal. No kidding….
Soho to service digital film market
The basement at Toronto’s Soho Post and Graphics is about to get significantly more interesting when it becomes home this summer to a new digital film input and output facility….
People
Daniel F. McMullen has joined the Republic National Bank of New York (Canada) as vp with a mandate to provide financing to the Canadian film and tv industry. McMullen was formerly manager of entertainment software at the Royal Bank….
Network: Short takes on people, things and what’s shaking out there in the prod tech universe
Cuppa Coffee/Spin TCM opener…
Avid ships Illusion
Avid Technologies has brought a pair of new options to the Canadian post market and to the sgi platform with the introduction of the Media Illusion, which has begun shipping, and the Media Fusion….
Special Report on Video Game Production: Canada’s game biz adapts to change
The advent of Windows 95 cd-rom as a platform standard for game developers, lower-priced consoles, online and network gaming initiatives, and joint ventures between game and cablecos: these are some of the changes pulling the game industry out of a cyclical…
Special Report on Video Game Production: Gray Matter: digital environment but the game’s the same
Gray Matter’s new space is not as slick as you might expect. The urban location is hip (renovated space beside Toronto’s Union Station), the denizens are very young, and there’s not a suit in sight. It’s like a school with a…
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