Vancouver: Production runs June 6 to July 29 in Kelowna and the Okanagan on Vancouver-based Anagram Pictures’ $11-million feature Fido. A zombie film that writer/director and Anagram producer Andrew Currie has had in development for almost a decade, Fido is about a boy with a domesticated pet zombie named Fido (played by Scottish comedian Billy Connolly), who gets them both into trouble after eating a neighbor.

Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) and Henry Czerny (The Pink Panther) also star. Mary Anne Waterhouse and Blake Corbet are producing, with Trent Carlson and Kevin Eastwood coproducing. Jan Kiesser (Rare Birds) is the cinematographer.

Funding comes from Telefilm Canada, British Columbia Film, broadcast licences and Canadian distributor TVA Films. Lions Gate is handling foreign sales.

In other news, Anagram cofounder Carlson says a TV series based on his 2004 feature The Delicate Art of Parking (a mock-doc about parking enforcers) is in development with the CBC.

Carlson says the series will likely have an initial run of six 30-minute eps. Although the creative will be based on the film, it will not be presented in a mockumentary format. Instead, he describes the series as ‘a workplace comedy’ focusing on some of the characters in the film, although the cast has not yet been announced. Carlson will likely direct and is currently looking for writers. He hopes to begin production in 2006.

After spending five years developing and producing the film, Carlson admits he was initially reluctant to pursue a TV version, but soon warmed to the idea.

‘It’s an opportunity to go back into the material and exploit the humor the film was tapping into,’ says Carlson.

CBC, Telefilm and B.C. Film have provided development financing, but Carlson says it’s too early to discuss budgets.