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For The Record
– Cinar Films, Telemagik and Baton Broadcasting have signed a joint venture to develop Cirque, a drama series of 60-minute episodes based on the Cirque du Soleil. The series is at preliminary stages of development with a goal to shoot the…
CanWest will bring price war: CFCF
Montreal: Benefits resulting from the CanWest Global/Tele-Metropole entry into the Quebec broadcast market will be wiped out by job and programming cuts at competitor cfcf-tv, says recently named cfcf-tv president Rene Desmarais….
Doc Congress decidedly downbeat
Michael Allder is a producer with the National Film Board and was the producer/director of The Lucky Ones: Allied Airmen and Buchenwald….
Quebec Scene: Prisma series Urgence captures drama of emergency medicine
Montreal: One of the principal drama series in front of the cameras this fall is Urgence, a 13-hour production which debuts Jan. 18 on Radio-Canada….
Storyboards: A magic minivan tale
Perfectly matched and crystal-clear cgi effects and an original musical track from 42 members of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra combine to create a sense of magic in a seamless commercial pool produced for the Chrysler ns minivan….
Commercial Directions: Bell Canada pool calls Bill Irish
Bill Irish of Kessler Irish will direct eight days in November for Bell Canada through bbdo. To be lensed by James Gardner, the spots will be edited by Andy Attalai at Chameleon….
Renewed focus on up-and-comers: Stripes folds into Revolver
Stripes wound down at the end of last month, and the commercial operations of the low-end spot division of The Partners’ Film Company is now going under the new (but established) name of Revolver, its music video brethren. The change came…
Word on the Street
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Production in Atlantic Canada: Atlantic Scene: Nova Scotia abuzz with film action
Halifax: There’s a buzz in the air in Halifax, and it’s only partially due to the fact that there are seemingly more bars per capita here than perhaps anywhere in the world. It’s a Tuesday night and downtown hangout The Economy…
B.C. Scene: Museum wins kudos, Ransen moves on to Shegalla Summer
Vancouver: Mort Ransen, director of the widely acclaimed Margaret’s Museum, captured the mood and fear of more than just filmmakers after winning the Federal Express Award For Most Popular Canadian Film at last month’s Vancouver International Film Festival….
Ontario Scene: Rynard, Obodiac do Music and Mud
Big Deal, So What, a short for cbc’s Reflections that aired earlier this month and espouses teen skepticism in the polyester-laden ’70s, is the work of director/writer/coproducer Su Rynard and producer Hadley Obodiac – both of whom are on their way…
Top Spots 95 Winners
Top Spots Winners…
Top Spots 95: Commercial production a $182M biz
Commercial production a $182M biz…
Top Spots ’95: Top shops, then and now
The Partners’ Film Company still leads the pack in terms of volume, registering 469 shooting days for the year ending Sept. 29, 1995….
Top Spots 95: Post gets a bigger piece of the pie
Editing and post-production now accounts for an average of 16% of the production budget for television commercials in 1995, according to an in-house study done by MacLaren McCann….
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