Moose Jaw – Regina’s Stephen Onda Productions wrapped the MOW Intimate Stranger for Lifetime Television and Global late last month.

The film – a coproduction with Toronto’s Blueprint Entertainment, directed by Bert Kish (Power Play) – is about a successful single mom in Kansas City who sees her new romance turn sour, then dangerous. Producer Onda (Moccasin Flats) says Moose Jaw, SK was predominantly used for the shoot because of its similarity to Kansas, in that ‘you have these new [housing] developments, and then all of a sudden it stops and – boom – there is the prairie.’

The $3-million project – with funding from the broadcasters and tax credits – stars Saskatchewan native Kari Matchett (Invasion), Peter Outerbridge (ReGenesis) and Matthew Knight (Skinwalkers). Mark Dobrescu served as DOP, with Suzanne Berger as supervising producer. Jim Head executive produced, along with John Morayniss and Noreen Halpern for Blueprint – the company’s seventh MOW, but first with Onda.

‘Generally, I’m running the show myself – handling the insurance, dealing with the cash flow, and all those lovely things – but Blueprint has finance and business affairs people, so all of the support they provided was marvelous and made my job wonderful,’ says Onda.

The film will air on Lifetime and Global’s sister CH stations at some point during the 2006/07 season.

In the meantime, Onda will continue working toward the 6 x 60 miniseries Ice for Global, with coproduction partner Alchemy Pictures out of the U.K. The project, about the illegal drug crystal meth, is being developed with writers Jeff Martel (A Fairytale Christmas) and Will Dixon (Earth: Final Conflict).