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Special Report: Gemini Nominees: Distinctively Canadian comedy
The six Canadian comedies nominated in the Best Comedy Series and Best Performance categories – Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour has 22 Minutes, Comics! and The Kids in the Hall airing on cbc along with The New Red Green Show…
Special Report: Gemini Nominees: Understanding Duguay’s dramatic impulse
Of course, the director of Million Dollar Babies, Christian Duguay, no longer does his own camera work….
Special Report: Gemini Nominees: Gajdecki is killing ’em
From making a young woman completely absorb a football player during an intimate encounter to devising ways of making victims bleed dayglo green, the manifestations of John Gajdecki’s varied talents are being recognized this year. Gajdecki is nominated three times in…
Special Report: Gemini Nominees: Rasky’s parables: art and creation
‘A poem,’ Wordsworth said, is ’emotion recollected in tranquillity.’ Film gives you the possibility of experiencing and filming emotional circumstances and then, in the quiet of the editing room, to reassemble them to make a poetic statement….
Special Report: Gemini Nominees: Madison: praised but fighting to survive
There’s a saying in the American television business that good reviews don’t always mean good numbers. My So-Called Life won raves but disappeared from the screen when it didn’t generate enough audience to draw advertisers….
Special Report: Gemini Nominees: Joe Bodolai and David Rosen together make the team that produced the 1994 Live and Dangerous Geminis show with hosts Valerie Pringle and Albert Schultz and last year’s Broadcast Gala with hosts Tin…
With 16 years’ experience on the Geminis between them, the pair have worked as writers and producers on the show and Rosen started out as a production manager. From their minds’ eyes come experiences both triumphant and disastrous, all part of…
Special Report: Gemini Nominees: Roloff shows diverse talents on TekWar
The work of production designer Stephen Roloff has earned him three Gemini nominations this year, two of them for his collaborative efforts on Atlantis Films’ TekWar series: Best Visual Effects (along with Bob Munroe, Derek Grime, Claude Theriault and John Gajdecki)…
Special Report: Gemini Nominees: Who’s nominated
Following are the nominees in this year’s 16 program, 25 craft and 19 performance award categories as tabulated by the accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick Thorne and provided by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television….
Dial debate set to begin: Access heats up
Rogers Communications is using its increased analog capacity to launch 10-15 new channels of pay-per-view programming this month in parts of Toronto, another move likely to rankle the 44 new specialty service applicants who have been told by Rogers and the…
Perspective: Izzy’s aspirations
With applications just filed for stations in Alberta and Victoria and regulatory approval for its bid to take control of Quebec-based ckmi-tv still to be had, the future of CanWest Global Communications waits in the wings….
AP making it happen
Documentary filmmakers Elliott Halpern and Simcha Jacobovici, founding partners of the thriving production house Associated Producers, saw the writing on the wall about three years ago and altered their company’s strategies accordingly….
At Press Time
As rumored for months, Michel Dupuy is out of office and Minister of the Environment and Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps is now Minister of Heritage. There is no official post for Dupuy at present, but he says the prime minister…
Tax credit red tape drags on
As predicted by some and feared by many, implementation of the new film and video tax credit is still a distant dream. At this late stage, the good news is cavco is expected to release its revised guidelines for ritc eligibility…
Video Innovations: Domino effect: Command Post digital opticals system
Toronto’s Command Post and Transfer recently became the first post facility in Canada to acquire a Domino, the digital opticals for movies system from u.k.-based Quantel….
Video Innovations: New SGI lineup
Silicon Graphics, the leading name in high-performance visual computing with 20% of the Canadian entertainment post market, has announced a series of new products that take post-production capabilities to the next level….
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