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Perriau heads to Jet
Montreal: Producer Benoit Perriau has joined Jet Films as executive producer….
Commercial Directions: KooshBalls for Sheehan
At Apple Box, Vancouver, director/cameraman Bobby Sheehan was up to his neck in KooshBalls. Sheehan spent a day shooting ‘Koosh Lings’ for Sive y&r in Cincinatti, Ohio. The spot includes a cast of 30 for a wedding scene called KooshBall Mayhem….
Network: More Tee in China
Milton, Ont.-based Tee-Comm Electronics has announced an agreement to supply its world standard digital receiver set-top boxes to the People’s Republic of China. Tee-Comm, manufacturer of home satellite systems, is part owner of Canadian direct to home service, ExpressVu and owner…
Network: How you gonna keep them down on the Farm?
Toronto-based Image Farm has launched five new titles of photographic textures and backgrounds on cd-rom. The titles, Arizona Desert, Berlin Walls, Cottage and Country, Real Rock and Streets of London each contain 100 original photographs of themed natural and human-made surfaces…
Network: Digital Post
Corporate and commercial video post and production house Digital Post has moved to Toronto. The company had been operating in the u.s. and Mexico for three years doing computer animation, compositing, on- and off-line non-linear editing, sketching, illustration and digital sound…
Network: Award chief named
Adam Hurst has been named international chairman of the International Teleproduction Society’s (its) 1996 International Monitor Awards. Hurst, from DC Post in Washington, d.c. has served as International Monitor co-chair for the ITS/Mid-Atlantic chapter since 1990 and takes the reins from…
Network: APT-Q system
Belfast based Audio Processing Technology (apt), a division of Solid State Logic will use this year’s nab as an opportunity to demonstrate the hardware implementation of its new apt-q audio coding system, produced in cooperation with u.s.-based at&t. The new system…
Virtual arts at InterActive 96
The tone of InterActive 96 and the mood of its 250 corporeal delegates seemed more positive than many an earlier multimedia confab. The cyber world is becoming more concrete….
Inferno burning up post biz
Damn! That’s a hot system….
Special Report: Commercial Production: Dream Teams: Chris Staples
Given that the freelance floodgates have opened, Canadian advertising creatives now have the freedom and flexibility to stack their commercial production teams any way they see fit….
Special Report: Commercial Production: Freelancer ranks swelling
As popular as shooting in South Africa, Collette the Psychic, and regular visits to Shao Lan Zhao, forsaking a guaranteed paycheck and capitalizing on the freelance market tops the trends list in the advertising and commercial production community….
Special Report: Commercial Production: Marathon days: time is money
And miles of cable before I sleepand miles of footage before I sleep…
News Brief: Video 30, Intellia fuse
Corporate video house Productions Video 30 and interactive multimedia producer Intellia Productions have fused operations….
News brief: Buzz Santa Monica studio
Buzz Image Group opened a new studio Feb. 21, in Santa Monica, ca….
Special Report: Production in Alberta: The move to private funding
While Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has earned recognition by balancing the provincial budget by most any means necessary, many of the province’s film producers have taken a chapter from the book of Klein and are attempting a strategic move away from…
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