The doc chronicles the historic Toronto musical production that featured Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin early in their careers.
Johnson will oversee the company’s scripted and unscripted sales strategy in the newly created role.
The series is being directed by Tony Vainuku, with preliminary filming underway in Las Vegas.
A total of $257,500 has been dispersed through the Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Fund and CrossCurrents.
The Canada/Switzerland copro won the Grand Prize in the documentary festival’s National Feature Competition.
Bizable Media’s Janice Dawe and filmmaker Noura Kevorkian will be honoured at the Institute’s Dec. 5 ceremony.
The channel includes more than 300 episodes from the home reno franchise and is available in Canada on The Roku Channel, Tubi and Plex.
The Blue Ant Studios co-heads discuss their vision for a new, fully integrated production-distribution operation.
The guild stated that the new agreement with the AMPTP covers significant advances in such matters as wages, global streaming residuals, and creative rights.
The Canadian media vet will lead RiverRock Real out of Toronto with plans to make Canadian content.
This Changes Everything will be produced by Quebec-based Poutine Studios and Palmina Productions.
The docuseries on music industry injustice is from Supercollider, Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Sabrina Elba’s Pink Towel, in association with Catalyst.