Corus Entertainment’s OWN Canada has picked up the rights for the homegrown doc series Life Story Project from Headtrip Films.

Mitch Gabourie created the ten episode series that sees real people share their life stories.

Gabourie of Headtrip Films is showrunning Life Story Project for Corus, the series producer, and directed five episodes.

The doc series will air on OWN Canada from January 2013, and Corus Entertainment retains the international format sales rights.

Headtrip Films, with offices in Toronto and Los Angeles, is also set to produce the feature Stickup Men, about the infamous Stopwatch Gang bank robbers, with Gabourie to direct.