+ E1 Entertainment closed a raft of international sales for Amreeka following Cannes. The copro between Winnipeg’s Buffalo Gal Pictures and U.S. and Kuwaiti partners has been sold to Sharmill Films (Australia), National Geographic (U.S.), WEG (India) and Cineart (Benelux). Elsewhere, it will be handled by Look Now! (Switzerland), Festival Films (Spain), Iguana (Italy) and Memento Films (France).

+ Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan swept three of the four prizes at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight for J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother). The film’s distributor, Rezo Films, has reportedly sold Killed to Australia, Greece, Turkey, Korea, Russia and Albania.

+ The National Film Board handed its annual short film competition prize to Joaquin Baldwin and his animated piece Sebastian’s Voodoo. The four-minute short follows a voodoo doll that must save himself and his fellows from being pinned to death, and is viewable online until June 21.

+ When Dragons’ Den-like reality series Shark Tank debuts on ABC in the fall it will feature two Canuck venture capitalists who have appeared on all three seasons of the CBC series. Dragons’ Kevin O’Leary and Robert Herjavec have been hired by producer Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice), and are set to begin production on the U.S. version in the summer, after wrapping season four of CBC’s Dragons in June.