Shaw Communications has put four shows in the running for its $50,000 annual Rocket Prize. The company nodded to Spectra Animation’s Fred’s Head, Sienna Films’ How She Move, seasons three and four of Instant Star from Epitome Pictures, and the CTV MOW Sticks & Stones, produced through Cirrus Communications and Dream Street Pictures. A jury of about 800 grade school students from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto will vote on a winner, to be announced on May 6.
Fred’s Head airs on Teletoon, while CTV has Instant Star. How She Move was released in theaters last year through Mongrel and Paramount Vantage, and is also earmarked for CBC, The Movie Network and Movie Central.