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Fest Market News
– Edmonton’s 10th annual Local Her’es International Screen Festival will be held March 3-9. A highlight of the non-competitive festival will be Declarations of Independents, a showcase for Canadian indie tv and film. Seventeen short films, including Jean-
Video Innovations: Tic Tac Toon system: a closer look
The Tic Tac Toon system is made up of nine primary production modules….
Film and TV Briefs
– Mario Bolduc’s dark family satire L’Oreille d’un sourd (Alliance Vivafilm) has been chosen as the opening-night film at the 14th Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois, the annual Quebec film and video retrospective, Feb. 1-10….
Gemini nominees
The nominations are out as the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television sets the stage for the 10th annual Gemini Awards….
Video Innovations: ICE creates flexible CD template
CD-ROMs generally do two things: they entertain and inform. For Toronto-based ICE, Integrated Communications and Entertainment, the platform has the additional role of providing the ways and means of expanding the consumer products side of the business….
The Writers: Phil Bedard and Larry Lalonde: The lifeblood behind Forever Knight
Dr. Robert Gardner is a professor of media writing and chair of the School of Radio and Television Arts, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto….
Video Innovations: Video innovations: bah humbug!
Ernest J. Dick is a corporate archivist at the cbc, Ottawa….
Quebec Scene: Adelson returns for CBS movie of the week, Everything to Gain
Montreal: Talented American actress Sean Young plays an attractive, young widow whose search for revenge heals a terrible loss in the Adelson Entertainment (Kori Productions) mow Everything to Gain, shooting here Jan. 28 to Feb. 24….
B.C. Scene: Scams, Schemes and an Arts and Entertainment score
Vancouver: Scams, Schemes and Scoundrels a catchy title and one that obviously captured the eye of New York-based Arts and Entertainment. The two-hour ‘docutainment’ special, produced by Vancouver’s Ark Films, recounts the most clever and conniving scams that have ever…
Commercial Directions: Kerslake picks up Nike shoot
At Radke Films, Philip Kates and dop Gabor Tarko have landed a prelight and two shoot days for Gatorade early in February. The agency is Bayer Bess Vanderwalker and the editor will be Third Floor’s Richard Unruh….
Venture targets new media generation: DGA, DVLA go into comm.bat
comm.bat films is the new entity formed via the hyperlink of associates at Damast Gordon and Associates and Derek Van Lint and Associates. Gauging by the associated companies’ (decade-old dvla held 50% of three-and-a-half-year-old dgc) 1995 shoot-day activity, the combined volume…
Storyboards: The one that got away
Alright, so the whale in this Canada Tourism spot isn’t wild and free in the ocean. She’s a member of MarineLand’s roster, and a pregnant one at that. And yes, her magnificent splash was created by a four-ton piece of sewage…
Word on the Street: It sure as heck ain’t tabletop
‘Anarchy Across America.’ That’s the subtitle of director Evan Stone’s best-selling in-line skating video, Hoax II. Featuring the music of Bad Religion, Rancid and Sepultura as the sound track to a 34-day, 17-city, 10,000-mile in-line skating tour, it’s definitely anarchy….
Tribute to Arthur Weinthal: Sked savvy, show smarts 30 years of programming
On not your average day in April 1994, Arthur Weinthal, vp of entertainment programming at ctv, sat in his office at the network’s old building on Toronto’s Charles Street….
Tribute to Arthur Weinthal: Cassaday: ‘Arthur is an anchor’
John Cassaday is president and ceo of the CTV Network and has worked with Arthur Weinthal since joining the network in 1990….
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