The CDMN

The Canadian Digital Media Network has published an article regarding our new facility "The Generator at One"

You can read the Article here.

knowfire project earns national recognition.

We are thrilled to report that the knowfire.ca campaign launched last fall, has been recognized on an international stage by receiving a "Global Best Award" this past April at the 10th International Education Business Partnership Conference. We are proud of the campaign and hope for more growth and continued fire safety awareness in the future!

Here is an article from Niagara College's Encore magazine with more details on the award:

- Lianne

Change. Growth. The Future.

There are a ton of changes here at FG lately! We have a new website and new look, were are moving into our new office and studio as we speak, and we have moved from three owners to two. We are more than excited about all of this.

Our team is growing and the talent pool in Niagara is thriving. Bottom line our clients are thrilled, and they will tell you that.

We are working hard to offer the absolute best video production experience in the Niagara Region and beyond for any motion picture needs big or small. Were making waves in Toronto, Hamilton, the East Coast, Buffalo, and even the industry on the west coast of USA has taken note of the the things going on in our humble city.

Boxes and boxes of the best production technology in the world are literally arriving every day and we are installing and connecting the components as fast as they come in!

Our presence at nGen has skyrocketed our growth and the industry in Southern Ontario and we are raising the bar daily. We are about 99% complete on this truly revolutionary facility and Interactive media production as we know it in this region will never be the same.

If you have any questions regarding the nGen Phase II facility and what we can do here for you feel free to contact us!

Stay tuned for some big things...

In the meantime here are a few sneak peeks into what we've all been building.





-A.

Fg hits the magazine stands.

Check out Fourgrounds' President Adrian Thiessen and his "partner" Tracy Van Oosten in Niagara Magazine.

Full article here.

Twitter

Fourgrounds gets a twitter...

You can find it here.

Happy New Year

-A.

Fourgrounds in the news

Taken from the St. Catharines Standard:

Federal cash up for grabs

Posted By MATTHEW VAN DONGEN , STANDARD STAFF

Posted 7 hours ago

The race is on for local businesses to apply for a new round of federal funding aimed at recession-battered southern Ontario communities.

Gary Goodyear, minister of state for southern Ontario's new federal economic development agency, announced a second round for the Community Adjustment Fund Tuesday morning in downtown St. Catharines.

The first phase of the fund doled out more than $101 million to 90 projects in cities hard-hit by the recession, including about $3 million to expand nGen, the St. Catharines-based Niagara Interactive Media Generator.

The second round is unique, said Goodyear, because $128 million in loans and grants are available for projects submitted by small and medium-sized businesses in addition to non-profits, cities and academic institutions.

"We are looking for businesses to expand, improve competitiveness, perhaps adopt a technology they haven't had the funding to put forward in the past," Goodyear said following the announcement at the St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce on St. Paul Street.

"There are a number of good examples (of businesses) right here in St. Catharines that are doing that."

After shedding jobs and companies for years, St. Catharines unfortunately qualifies as a community in need, chamber general manager Walter Sendzik said.

However, he said the city is also bursting with small-and medium-sized businesses ready to bounce back with a little cash encouragement.

"This is perfect for our emerging hi-tech and bio-tech companies, our construction companies that want to retrain workers in green technologies," he said Tuesday.

The chamber has already made its own application for help creating a new website, tentatively namedgobigniagara.com,which would form a one-stop shopping point for local companies seeking project tender information.

Sendzik added the emphasis on rewarding cutting-edge research and development fits in well with the city prosperity council's focus on digital media and biotechnology.

Two other small St. Catharines companies at the announcement were also eyeing a potential loan.

Fourgrounds Media Inc. and Morro Images have already benefited from the federal hard times cash -- they're primed to move into the expanding nGen office space, which was made possible by $3 million from the fund in September.

The two companies are already seeking private investment for a digital TV project they've partnered on, Fourgrounds president Adrian Thiessen said.

"As soon as I heard (Goodyear) make the announcement, the wheels started turning," he said. "I think we'll definitely apply."

Not everyone who applies will get lucky, of course.

Goodyear said he expects the program to be "oversubscribed."

The funding is geared in particular towards small communities hit by big job losses, he said, with priority also given to projects creating "the most jobs per dollar."

The money takes the form of a no-interest loan for private companies, but non-profits and cities generally won't have to repay the cash.

Applications for the job-creating cash will be accepted starting today until Jan. 18 of next year.

For more details on project eligibility, visit www.southernontario.gc.ca.

mvandongen@

stcatharinesstandard.ca

"Grads help build a new media industry"

Fourgrounds was pleased to be featured in Brock University's first ever Surgite Magazine.

Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Alumni centered publication opens with a two page spread on Fourgrounds' efforts to stimulate a new media industry in Niagara with the help of nGen the new business incubator.

Thanks to Brock for all their support, a version of the magazine will be sent to all Brock alumni, to get a copy of the magazine visit the Brock Campus.

- A.