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HBM Integrated Technology Inc. has announced the opening of registration for “A 360 Degree View of Your Business,” an event for accounting, human resources and sales and marketing professionals who use Sage 300 ERP (formerly Sage ERP Accpac). The event will take place on April 20 at the Bayers Lake Theatres in Halifax. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s ACM SIGGRAPH chapter invites you to join them on Thursday April 26th for a presentation by Double Negative’s Visual Effects Supervisor Ken McGaugh on The Creatures of John Carter at the Vancity Theatre. Doors will open for the event at 6:00pm for a pre-session industry mixer. A Q & A session will follow the 7:00pm presentation. Read the rest of this entry »

VanArts is proud to present a Masterclass in Animation & Story Development, featuring instructors Matthew Luhn (Head of Story) and Andrew Gordon (Animator), both from Pixar Animation Studios. The 2012 Class Tour begins on June 22 in Chicago and ends in Vancouver on September 28th. Read the rest of this entry »

Crossing the Atlantic with their luggage full of cinematic ideas, 12 hand-picked and dynamic European producers will meet their 12 talented Canadian counterparts at the Toronto International Film Festival® (TIFF), from September 5 – 8 to find joint film projects. The first two editions of Producers Lab Toronto were so successful that almost all of the participants from 2010 and 2011 are in contact with one another and 27 projects are actively in development. Consequently, the MEDIA Mundus programmeof the European Union has now confirmed financial backing of the platform for the third year running. Read the rest of this entry »

In less than two months, more than 1,200 movers and shakers from the international business community will gather in Montreal for a new breed of business conference focussed on commerce and creativity: C2-MTL. With only a few weeks to go, the program is being enhanced and more tickets are going on sale to meet the demand. Read the rest of this entry »

The Banff World Media Festival has announced the complete programming schedule for its 33^rd annual event, which takes place June 10th through 13th at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. The Festival will include over 100 sessions covering every genre of entertainment, including: Scripted, Comedy, Kids & Animation, Non-Fiction and Digital. Discussions will be led by industry heavyweights such as: Read the rest of this entry »

A consortium of Ottawa-based game developers led by bitHeads/PlayBrains, Fuel Industries, Magmic and Snowed In Studios today announced the First Annual Ottawa Game Conference, to be held at the Ottawa Convention Center on May 29, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to launch its new travelling exhibition Double Take: Portraits of Intriguing Canadians. The exhibition will open at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Canada’s National Memorial to the Fathers of Confederation-Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on March 31, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Cinema Editors is hosting its second annual awards show on May 17, 2012 at the Capitol Event Theatre in Toronto. Around 250 guests are expected to attend this year, almost double the number of guests who attended last year. The C.C.E Awards is the largest event hosted by the organization, focusing on the significance of post-production in cinema. Read the rest of this entry »

At last week’s SMPIA Multi-PlatFORUM event, two project teams, each comprised of one film/TV company representative and one interactive company representative, were selected by the jury to be part of SMPIA-led delegation to the Banff World Media Festival in June. Read the rest of this entry »