Winnipeg Film Company Honoured for Innovation


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TORONTO, May 21, 2002 - A Winnipeg-based film company whose pioneering use of technology produced outstanding visual effects in such movies as "Swordfish" and Stephen King's "Storm of the Century" has been selected as the 2002 Innovator of the Year by the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce Innovation Awards.

Frantic Films, founded in 1997, has established itself as a leader in providing creative visual effects, animation and live-action for the film and television industry across North America. The company was among nine organizations recognized for excellence May 7 at the fifth annual Innovation Awards, which are allied with the Canadian Information Productivity Awards.

Commenting on Frantic Films being named the Innovator of the Year, Nigel Fortlage, Chairman of the 2002 Innovation Awards, said: "They applied a 'made in Manitoba' technology solution to get into a market outside Manitoba, to bridge a gap, physical and otherwise. Their pioneering vision provides a bar to which business should aspire, and one for which Frantic Films richly deserves being honoured as our 2002 Innovator of the Year."

The 2002 Innovator of the Year Award is sponsored by Deloitte & Touche.

Winners of the Winnipeg Chamber of Innovation Awards included:

Award winners in relevant categories are finalists in the national competition to receive Canadian Information Productivity Awards of Excellence, to be presented at the C.I.P.A. Gala Banquet in Toronto on November 27. Further details on the C.I.P.A. awards, and those of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce and our two other allied organizations, are available at www.C.I.P.A..com.




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