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Once Were Warriors tops Mtl. fest

Montreal: Lee Tamahori’s New Zealand drama Once Were Warriors was the big winner at this year’s Montreal World Film Festival, taking the Grand Prix des Ameriques for best feature film in official competition, the Air Canada People’s Choice Award for most…

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Abraham to Sparks

Gray Abraham, a prominent figure in the Canadian ad agency creative community through the 1980s, has joined Sparks Productions as a commercial director….

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Commercial Directions

Avion shooting spots for…

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Epic voyage…

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Events director Robertson aiming…

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Controversial documentary series…

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Daroshin film chronicles WWII…

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Dear Diaries

Beginning on page 16, it’s show (and tell) time as Playback presents its annual production diaries of feature films and feature documentaries in this year’s Perspective Canada program of the tiff. Noticeably absent are the pc opener, Bruce McDonald’s Dance Me…

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Guerilla Guide ’94

The daunting, delicious Toronto International Film Festival – aka movie g-orgy – is back, this time with 296 titles from 45 countries, 13 cinemas, over 800 sales and industry delegates (and counting), a promise from programmer Cameron Bailey that Canadian film…

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Symposium Trade Forum: at warp speed

Themes of this year’s Symposium Trade Forum include such flavors-of-the-year as the info highway, business according to nafta, the pros and cons of taking your company public, and the wave of new Canadian specialty channels….

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Paint Cans

Director/producer/ scriptwriter: Paul Donovan – Coproducers: Eric Jordan, Paul Stephens – Diary by: Nancy Hughes…

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Exotica

Writer/director: Atom Egoyan – Producers: Atom Egoyan, Camelia Frieberg – Diary by: Janice Lee…