OIAF unveils lineup

The Ottawa International Animation Festival will play host to more than 130 films from 20 different countries when it returns to the capital for its 30th anniversary edition in September. The complete OIAF lineup includes Bill Plympton’s latest, Guide Dog, and the Canada/France copro Conte de quartier, which recently played in competition at Cannes.

Also on the list is Changing Evan by filmmaker Steven Woloshen, Experiment 02_06 by Alison Loader and Donald McWilliams, and the zombie comedy The Z-Files. The OIAF runs Sept. 20-24.

Theatre D buys Royal Cinema

Theatre D Digital has bought the recently closed Royal Cinema in Toronto and plans to reopen the landmark theater as a combination movie house and post-production facility, according to cofounder Dan Peel. The post shop paid roughly $2 million for the Royal, with plans to renovate its seating and interiors for a reopening in September. It will operate as a studio by day – with all new Sony and Avid equipment, and HD projection, says Peel – and as a movie theater by night, playing rep and perhaps first-run titles.

Theatre D has a similar operation at the Regent, another Toronto rep theater.