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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….
Quebec Scene: Levy and Asselin features roll at Cinemaginaire
Montreal: Cinemaginaire producer Denise Robert has two features on the go this spring, a $10 million majority European coproduction called Le Jour et la nuit from French writer/philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, and Le Siege de l’ame, a fantasy thriller and the second…
Ontario Scene: Pebblehut lures Streep for rare television movie appearance
Pebblehut Productions has a full slate of productions for this spring and summer….
First Leos a wrap
Vancouver: The statuettes weren’t ready for the winners, but spirits were high nonetheless for the first annual Leo Awards, sponsored by the B.C. Motion Picture Association May 5….
B.C. Scene: Funniest Videos host directs MOW that hits close to home
Vancouver: Canadian Bob Saget was in Vancouver this month making his dramatic directorial debut on another disease-of-the-week mow for abc. An odd choice, you might think, for the man who laugh-tracks it through America’s Funniest Home Videos each week. But the…
Creative Twists up new F/X shop
Toronto’s Creative Post has spun a new high-end effects facility into the trailer park of life with Twister Digital Effects….
Network: Short takes on people, things and what’s shaking out there in the prod tech universe
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CBC gets swifter, higher resolution with Domino
With the help of Toronto’s Command Post and Transfer and the facility’s Quantel Domino digital optical system for film, the cbc will be stirring the competitive and patriotic cockles of moviegoers’ hearts with a moving spot for its planned coverage of…
Avid Crashes Cannes
A glory-hogging trip to Cannes aside, David Cronenberg’s Crash marked another achievement in terms of the making of the film itself….
Special Report on Investment & Finance: Recycling sparks funds
For producer/director Gary Marcuse of Face to Face Media in Vancouver, turning his documentary into a ‘multipurpose project’ was essential in making it financially feasible. The one-hour, award-winning Mind of a Child is about a breakthrough in the teaching of aboriginal…
Special Report on Investment & Finance: Financing: the biggest creative challenge
Filmmaking has always taken a lot of creativity. However, it’s not just the scriptwriting, art direction, set decorating and costumes that require great amounts of imagination….
Special Report on Investment & Finance: Blackwatch’s public offering
Blackwatch Communications, a Montreal-based company, has designed an innovative plan for private investors to buy into films….
Special Report on Investment & Finance: Sponsors put money program in the black
3 Themes-ewm’s Daniele J. Suissa and Donald Martin, executive producer of Women, Lifestyle & Money, launched the television series after a lengthy process of piecing together $350,000 for 13 episodes….
Special Report on Investment & Finance: National funding and investment sources
Following is the 1996 edition of Playback’s annual digest of national funding and investment sources available for Canadian independent film and television program development, production and/or distribution….
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