Danielle Ng See Quan

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City announces fall premiere dates

Canuck series including Package Deal (pictured) on Mondays, and Storage Wars Canada and Meet the Family, anchoring Sunday nights, join the lineup this fall.

TIFF13 Trailers: Canadian films

Jeremiah Chechik’s The Right Kind of Wrong, Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls and shorts including Chris Landreth’s Subconscious Password are featured in the Canadian film lineup.

TIFF unveils Canadian lineup, industry talent

Filmmakers, media and cinephiles descended upon Toronto’s Royal York Hotel Wednesday for the unveiling of the Canadian feature lineup and industry program participants (Rising Stars pictured).

CMF invests $5.2 million in dev, marketing 21 projects

The majority of funding goes to 15 projects in development, while $1.9 million in marketing funds goes to six interactive projects, including Skyreader Media’s Skyreader Studio platform and Magnify Digital’s Alert-TV+.

Slice to air Architect Films’ Extreme Collectors this fall

The original series, which premieres Sept. 2, follows host and appraiser Andrew Zegers (pictured) as he travels across North America visiting people and their prized collections.

TIFF announces industry talent, Rising Stars

The festival announces its Pitch This!, Producers Lab, Talent and Rising Star rosters.

TIFF13: Dowse, McDonald features to bow at TIFF

Michael Dowse’s The F Word and Bruce McDonald’s The Husband, along with Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky doc Watermark are amongst the Canadian films in this year’s festival lineup.

Soska sisters to helm horror sequel

American Mary directors Jen and Sylvia Soska (pictured) will direct See No Evil 2, from Lionsgate and WWE Studios, slated to begin production this fall.

inMotion expands with new hire

The Ottawa-based digital media prodco adds writer-producer Steph Brown (pictured) to its growing list of new talent.

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Odyssey in production on MOW with Valerie Harper, Lauren Holly

The TV movie, filming in and around Fort Langley, B.C., is based on the novel by Ronda Rich.

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eOne, Sunrise pact on TV development shingle

The Canadian mini-studio and U.S.-based indie will finance and develop primarily one-hour dramatic cable pilots under the newly formed Sunrise TV banner.

Raven Banner takes Canadian rights to Slash-er flick

The horror film, to be released through the indie distributor’s Sinister Cinema series with Cineplex, is the first release from new label Slasher Films (producers Slash and Rob Eric pictured).