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B.C. Scene
Whale beached at the box office;…
Prairie Scene
Vancouver: Minds Eye Pictures of Regina has found itself a busy new friend in l.a.-based Buffalo Films. After co-executive producing and line producing the low-budget action feature Decoy starring Peter Weller (Robocop, Naked Lunch) and Robert Patrick (Terminator II), which shot…
Eugene Beck: `It’s increasingly difficult’
He put it off for a long time, but six months ago Toronto-based director Eugene Beck signed with Creative Film Management in New York….
Film reflects Cape Breton legacy
Cape Breton, N.S.: dop Vic Sarin has halted production temporarily. The light just isn’t quite right for the shot he needs. He’s waiting for the sun to lower itself across the ocean and reflect warmer tones onto the house perched on…
Quebec Scene
Gemeaux Award-winning teen…
Binchmarks
Propping up your set:…
News Brief
Avid, Digidesign merge…
Up & Running
Soundmaster is a guy’s best PAL…
Quebec a stronghold of indigenous loyalty
Shooting budgets for television commercials in Quebec seem frozen in time as a growing share of resources gets pumped into special effects, composites, animated graphics and post-production in general, say producers in the province….
Directors spot their future
In this special report on commercial production, a sampling of Canadian directors look to the future of their industry….
Rob Turner: `You have to puncture the U.S. market’
The 49th parallel technically still exists, but in the commercial production industry there is no division between the Canadian and American markets anymore, says director Rob Turner. What’s evolved over the past few years is a North American market where Canadian…
David McNally: things
improving for Canadians…
David McIlvaney: We’re exotic too
In the wake of the flood of American directors into their marketplace, Canadian directors have two choices, says director David McIlvaney. They can either sit in a downtown bar and curse their American counterparts, or they can look at the whole…
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Canada’s leading animation houses
The following is an alphabetical listing of Canadian animation houses. Information is based on questionnaires completed by companies that chose to respond to Playback….
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