*Soop’s On

Toronto’s Two Wheel Productions is looking for an exec producer for its chronicle of Blackfoot political cartoonist Everett Soop, whose body of work spans over 20 years. The Southern Albertan is the only aboriginal artist included in the National Archives caricature collection.

A v/o track from actress Tantoo Cardinal, another of those among the circle of friends and admirers of the subject of Soop on Wheels, could add to the theatrical potential of the doc, a one-hour being developed for tv.

Writer/director Sandy Greer, who is coproducing with dop Joan Hutton, has Bravo! on board as first window, with Vision TV, Knowledge Network and Access as the other Canadian broadcasters, and funding from Heritage Canada. McNabb and Connolly is the domestic distributor.

There is an urgency to top up the budget (around cdn$170,000) and roll camera, as funding secured from the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund comes with a time limit, and Soop, who has had muscular dystrophy since he was 17, is now in an advanced stage of the disease.

*Cola Wars

It’s only colored water and sugar, but few things define American culture better than pop – specifically, cola. Three years in the making, The Cola Conquest, 3 x 1 hours from Montreal-based DLI Productions, is set for delivery the beginning of November. As expected with a price tag of us$1.4 million, several broadcasters are attached: cbc and Tele-Quebec in Canada, Channel 4 in the u.k., Canal+ in France, Telepool Germany, abc in Australia, brtn in Belgium, Finland’s TV2 and Canal+ Spain.