April 2006

NEWS: Music Video Reality Series Planned

Shrivastava Media Group and MediaVision International are currently in pre-production for the reality series Above The Line: The Search For America's Next Music Video Director. Aspiring directors will be pitted against each other in production-related challenges that will involve making real videos with real budgets for real bands.  The grand prize winner will get to direct a "big-budget" music video and will receive a one-year director representation contract with a leading production company.

NEWS: MVPA Awards Nominees

The MVPA has officially announced the nominees for the 2006 MVPA Awards.  The Revolver Film Company leads all production companies with seven nominations in the award show's genre categories. Other top nominated companies in the genre categories include Partizan, HSI and Anonymous Content with six nominations each, Black Dog with five nominations, and @radical.media and DNA with four nominations each.

NEWS: Juno Awards Video Winners

Directors Christopher Mills, Micah Meisner and Rich Tefry took home Junos at last night's awards show in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

  • Christopher Mills won in the category of Music DVD Of The Year for his Tragically Hip documentary Hipeponymous. Mills accepted the award alongside Tragically Hip band leader Gord Downie and Universal Music Canada executives Allan Reid and Shawn Marino.
  • Micah Meisner and Rich Tefry won for their co-direction of the Buck 65 video "Devils Eyes."

A full list of winners at the annual Canadian music awards show can be found at junoawards.ca.

BOOKED: Guster - Drew Lightfoot, director

Stop motion animation specialist Drew Lightfoot has been tapped to direct the first video from Guster's forthcoming album, Ganging Up On The Sun. Lightfoot's credits include animation work on the Tim Burton flick Corpse Bride and Eddie Murphy's cartoon TV show The PJ's.

artist: Gustersong: "One Man Wrecking Machine"label: Reprisedirector(s): Drew Lightfootproduction co: The Revolver Film Co.

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