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Susanne Serres’ Celestine wins top prize at 2022 WIDC Awards
The WIDC Feature Film Award offers an estimated $250,000 worth of in-kind production support from more than a dozen industry service producers.
WildBrain hires two APAC content distribution execs
Jason Soh has been appointed global sales and channels director, APAC, while Max Tang becomes senior manager, content partnerships, China.
Production starts in Vancouver for Tarique Qayumi’s Mâdar
The drama on motherhood is produced by Aquatinter Films, Lily Pictures, and Principia Productions.
CTV renews The Amazing Race Canada for season nine
The competition series’ eighth season soared to the top of the TV charts during the summer with a season average of 1.6 million viewers.
Hot Sheet: The Walking Dead finale comes alive in TV demand
NBC’s Saturday Night Live conquered the overall TV demand chart, dethroning HBO’s Game of Thrones for the week of Nov. 14 to 20.
High Star, Kemodo team up on James Mark’s Fight Another Day
The film is currently in production in the Greater Toronto Area and will wrap before the end of December.
Fae Pictures, marblemedia developing Abdul Malik’s Salt
The team says it’s “looking to attract top producing partners, international talent and a showrunner” for the primetime series.
Playback Film Summit: Navigating promotion
Industry experts discussed ways to market feature-length and short films to generate buzz and leverage sales in the era of streaming and VOD platforms.
Saloon Media to adapt A Cosmology of Monsters
Wynonna Earp‘s Caitlin D. Fryers is attached as creator and EP of a series adaptation of the debut novel from Shaun Hamill (pictured).
Distributor Red Water acquires Jason Brennan’s L’Inhumain
Written, directed and produced by Brennan, the film will have its theatrical and VOD release for English Canada in the second quarter in 2023.
Circle Blue, Freddie Films, IronFlix team up on Orah
Principal photography on the film has begun in Sudbury, Ont., and will move to Nigeria at the end of November.
DOC Institute report reveals inequities for BIPOC-led docs
The first-ever Funding Analysis for BIPOC Documentary Content in Canada report also highlights barriers but says it was limited due to a lack of data from funders.
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