Playback has prepared this weekly collection of industry news-briefs on Thursday instead of Friday due to the Easter long weekend. Happy Thursday!

Film premieres

The Toronto Jewish Film Festival announced this week its lineup for the event that runs Apr. 11 to 2. Among the numerous screenings are three Canadian-made films that are having notable premieres. Director Igal Hecht’s A Universal Language is to receive its world premiere, director George Gedeon’s In The Presence of My Neighbours is to receive its North American premiere and Lewis Cohen’s Jews and Money (pictured) is to receive its Canadian premiere.

IdeaBOOST

The Canadian Film Centre’s engine to support digital startups ideaBOOST has commenced its second iteration of boot camps for entertainment-focused projects.

First announced last summer, the brainchild of the CFC’s Media Lab helped shepherd eight ideas further into the commercial market throughout the fall and winter. That cohort was feted at a special presentation and media event held in Toronto Mar. 20.

The business accelerator opens applications to its new round this week. To learn more visit its site.

TV premieres

Don’t Drive Here, Proper Television’s latest production that is helping to pave its reputation as the country’s rip-roaring producer for all things automotive, is receiving its TV rollout on Apr. 23 on Discovery Canada. The company also produces Canada’s Worst Driver and Last Car Standing.

Talent Hounds, an original new one-hour documentary that looks at the evolving role of dogs in the human experience, is to receive its TV premiere on The Pet Network Apr. 1. The transmedia property (pictured) is produced by Hop To It Productions with the backing of the Canadian Media Fund, the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, BookShorts  and the CMPA Transmedia Production Acceleration Program.

And a third season of Canadian-Irish-Hungarian treaty co-pro The Borgias will premiere on Bravo Apr. 14 at 10 p.m. The series is produced by Toronto-based Take 5 Productions’ John Weber and Sheila Hockin, with Jack Rapke, Darryl Frank and James Flynn also exec producing. Neil Jordan is creator, exec producer, writer and director of select episodes.