Mehta gets loud

Toronto – Deepa Mehta is working on her first documentary and is set to deliver For Crying Out Loud to OMNI Television by July. The one-hour doc looks at the domestic abuse cases of four immigrant women and comes from Toronto prodco Filmblanc, produced by Noemi Weis. It is expected to air in the fall. Filmblanc, previously an ad house, expanded into docs last year with its gay marriage piece Gloriously Free, also for OMNI and CBC’s The Passionate Eye. Mehta’s latest feature, Water, is awaiting release by Mongrel Media. Sean Davidson

Pool gets deep

Toronto – Screen Door will try its hand at a feature documentary with help from director Léa Pool, now signed to helm the big-screen version of Labyrinth of Desire. Like the nonfiction book by Rosemary Sullivan, the doc explores how women’s sex lives relate to their identities, and is set to shoot this fall in Canada and Mexico. Pool (Lost and Delirious) works under producers Mary Young Leckie and Heather Haldane of Screen Door (formerly Tapestry Pictures) and Mark Johnston of Nomad Films. Sean Davidson