Toronto-based Photon Films has acquired Canadian distribution rights to U.S. film Frybread Face and Me, which will make its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month. The film is written and directed by Billy Luther and follows two adolescent Navajo cousins during a memorable summer on their grandmother’s ranch.

Frybread Face and Me is produced by Chad Burris and executive produced by Taika Waititi. The rights for the film were negotiated by Sardé Hardie and Mark Slone for Photon Films and Creative Artists Agency’s Marissa Frobes on behalf of the filmmakers.

Photon Films is the distributor for Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Japanese film Monster, which will have its North American premiere at TIFF, and Rebecca Snow’s Canadian feature The Boy in the Woods, which will be available to buyers as part of TIFF’s Industry Selections lineup.

Super Channel

Super Channel has acquired all three seasons of U.S. production The Chosen, which is billed as a historical drama of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The series will air on the Heart & Home channel beginning Sunday (Aug. 27).

The Chosen is produced by Loaves & Fishes Productions and created by Dallas Jenkins. It was originally released in the U.S. by Angel Studios. Lionsgate holds worldwide distribution rights. It has garnered more than 520 million views worldwide, according to Super Channel, and has been translated into 62 languages to date.

Hollywood Suite

Hollywood Suite has acquired six-part British horror-comedy Wreck for linear and on-demand. The series has been picked up as part of the specialty channel’s Shocktober lineup and is scheduled to premiere on Oct. 5. It follows a 20-year-old who joins a group of disillusioned Gen Z workers on a cruise ship under a fake identity to investigate the mysterious death of his sister.

Wreck is created by Ryan J. Brown and produced by London-based Euston Films, a subsidiary of Fremantle. It was filmed in Northern Ireland with the support of Northern Ireland Screen. Fremantle handles worldwide distribution.

Fubo

Sports streaming platform Fubo has partnered with soccer-focused North American media company Men in Blazers to bring The Men in Blazers Show to Canadian audiences.

Airing on Fubo’s linear, ad-supported channel Fubo Sports, the multi-year deal brings 10 new episodes of The Men in Blazers Show to the channel annually. In addition to the exclusive episodes, the Men in Blazers team will create social content for Fubo that will cover key match ups and stories. Fubo also acquired the Canadian streaming rights for previous seasons of The Men in Blazers Show, the first time these episodes will air in Canada.

Men in Blazers began as a podcast hosted by Michael Davies and Roger Bennett before being adapted into a television show for NBC Sports Network in the U.S., where episodes drew between 30,000 and 140,000 viewers. The show was moved to streaming service Peacock last year, and began its tenth season earlier this month.

WildBrain

Chinese streaming platform Tencent Video and animation studio Miaow’s House have appointed WildBrain as the global distributor (excluding China) for their new 2D-animated series, Pet Hotel.

Aimed at seven- to nine-year-olds, the 26 x 11-minute series stars a dog, a guinea pig and two cats who meet new animals who come to stay with them. WildBrain will pitch Pet Hotel to buyers at MIPJunior and MIPCOM next month.

Miaow’s House chairman Robin Guo is the series director, with Michael Ryan (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and Thomas Krajewski (Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?) writing the scripts. The project’s executice producers include Tencent director of kids IP development and programming Selina She; GZ Art-land (also a co-producer) president Eddie Ng; and Vicky Zeng (Panda and Little Mole).

With files from Kidscreen and Media in Canada

Image courtesy of Photon Films