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Banff festival reveals Rockie nominees
The Banff Television Festival Rockie award nominees were announced at one of many Banff consciousness-raising events held at mip-tv. There were 12 Canadian nominees:…
Telefilm outlines details of cuts
Telefilm Canada’s recent announcement that it is taking further steps to increase Canadian content, cut administrative costs, and is redirecting funds for marketing and versioning of foreign films is seen by the those in the production and distribution industry as a…
Numbers
Captive Heart topples top three…
Openings: Everest release climbs
Everest Entertainment’s release The Substitute opened in the number-one spot on Cineplex Odeon screens across Canada for the period April 19 to 21. Showing on 100 screens, the three-day box-office gross was $335,000, with a $725,000 estimated box office up to…
B.C. Scene: New database Internet service wows Vancouver film industry
Vancouver: Entrepreneur Aerock Fox had difficulty breaking into the b.c. film business as a producer, but judging by the phenomenal turnout and industry reaction at the launch of his new film industry Internet service in Vancouver late last month, Fox has…
Ontario Scene: Saying hello to Disney; and Pam says au revoir
Although animators are supposed to be in hotter demand than sun, there seems to be time in betweening for wild speculation, the latest toon rumors running the gamut from Warner Bros. and DreamWorks coming to Canada, to rumors linking Disney and…
News Briefs: Mtl. Jewish Film Fest
Fourteen feature films and documentaries are featured in the second Montreal Jewish Film Festival, which unspools May 9-16 at the NFB Cinema in downtown Montreal….
News Briefs: Big Buzz buy
Buzz f/x, the California-based office of Montreal’s Buzz Image Group, has signed a production contract with Hanna-Barbera to produce 100 minutes of 3D animation for the series The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest. The series will be broadcast starting this year…
Warp 10 high-speed network
Toronto’s Warp 10 Technologies is launching its high-speed atm network system into the post industry with its first installation at Toronto post facility Command Post and Transfer….
Network: Short takes on people, things and what’s shaking out there in the prod tech universe
Bulldog launches…
City Interactive tests Intercom
Supplying content for the Intercom broadband test in Newmarket, Ont. this fall will allow Citytv’s City Interactive division to participate in the future of networked communications as well as allowing tests of new applications for its own material….
Word: Garneau Wurstlin Philp opens
It’s official. The doors of Garneau Wurstlin Philp, the long-rumored new creative shop headed by advertising luminaries Philippe Garneau, Michael Wurstlin and Bruce Philp, will open May 6 on the second floor of Gee Jeffery’s digs on King Street….
Storyboards: Jeep rises to new heights
Ever the rugged individualist, director Robert Black took the creation of Chrysler’s Jeep ‘Picnic’ spot to the upper limits, and his efforts were as uncompromising as the stark terrain that was one of the stars of the 60-second cinema spot. Real…
Commercial Directions: Shewchuk gets first Radke job
Director/cameraman Steve Gordon of comm.bat films is just back from Halifax where he shot two days for Schooner through Corporate Communications. Other recent work at comm.bat includes three days for director David Storey and dop Sean Valentini for Keno Lottery through…
Special Report on Distribution & Exhibition: Creativity vital to low-budget promotion
With roughly 330 films opening theatrically in Toronto alone in the past year, distinguishing a film in the minds of potential audience members, capturing the spirit of the film and disseminating it to the widest array of the right people for…
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