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Announcing: New faces, more familiar faces
Brunico Communications is pleased to announce the appointment of Louise Leger as Playback’s new special reports editor. In addition to helming special reports, Leger is the new Ontario Scene columnist and also covers the Ontario film and tv news beat. Please…
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JPL’s prime move…
Editorial: Door number 3, Bob
Go ahead, you specialty wannabes. Step right up with your version of a dream team, the distribution package you’d like to be part of come next September’s launch. The question – what packaging arrangement do you prefer and which services would…
Corrections
A number-challenged item in the May 6 mip-tv story added a digit to Paragon’s market goal, which should have read us$1 million; and it was Channel 4, not Channel 5 that was among the queue picking up the HandMade catalog. And…
Trade sorties have Indians looking to B.C.
Vancouver: The number of Indian productions shot in Vancouver may triple this year over last thanks to some effective location marketing in the subcontinent….
Ontario tax credit: What you need to know
Norman Bacal is a partner in the law firm of Heenan Blaikie, based in Toronto….
Sterloff: Ont. credit could be blow to B.C.
Vancouver: The b.c. film industry is facing the loss of at least half of its Canadian-content production now that Ontario has a provincial tax credit harmonized with the federal rebate scheme, says a senior b.c. film bureaucrat….
Numbers: Good news for U.TV
Spring ’96 bbm books are in and CanWest Global’s Vancouver affiliate, u.tv, is inspired by its 6 p.m. newscast numbers as it works on new strategies to take eyeballs away from king of the B.C. News Airwaves, bctv….
News Brief: Satellite strife
On May 9, Gloucester, Ont.-based Telesat Canada and surprise dbs entrant Shaw Communications, Calgary, announced plans to launch satellites into two Canadian-owned orbital slots….
Shutdown on Flanders set
Montreal: Preproduction has halted on Dog of Flanders, a us$12 million feature film slated to begin principal photography in Montreal May 14….
Fest to see 1st Aboriginal Film Awards
slated for May 21-26, the 5th annual Dreamspeakers Festival in Edmonton is expecting its biggest numbers ever, thanks, in part, to a concerted effort to bring out youth. Two hundred and fifty attendees are expected to take part in the aboriginal…
Word on the Street: Walk on the commercial side
Yes, that was Jason Priestley commanding all the attention at Roots whilst a small pod of commercial execs including Philippe Garneau and Michael Schwartz stood on the sidelines. It’s a face – Priestley’s that is – that advertising and music video…
On The Spot: Production houses air their beefs
So you want to vent….
Commercial Directions: D’Amato wins U.S. AT&T
Leroy Koetz, the jet-setting L.T.B. Productions director, is back from Milan where he shot two days for Volkswagen, resulting in a 30-second spot for international release. Christopher Gentile shot two days for Cheerios through fcb, with Barry Parrell the dop. topix…
Binchmarks: New copyright bill sets scene for ongoing battle
Diana Cafazzo is a partner and Sandra Richmond is an associate of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch. Both are members of the firm’s KNOWlaw Group….
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