✖
Danielle Ng See Quan
Women in the Director’s Chair gets boost from NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal is providing $75,000 to support the group’s various initiatives focused on getting more female-directed projects onto Canadian screens.
The Legend of Sarila to open south of the border
kaboom! Entertainment, the kids and family label of U.S. distributor Phase 4 Films, has picked up U.S. rights to the 3D animated feature from Quebec prodcos CarpeDiem and 10th Avenue.
9 Story sells Daniel Tiger to Disney channels
The animated preschool series has been picked up by Russia’s Disney Channel, and Disney Junior in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Cineplex launches SuperTicket movie bundle
Giving a potential boost to home entertainment sales, the package includes both theatre admission and a UV digital download of the film.
CFC honours volunteers with Payback Awards
The event, held Thursday at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, also featured the premieres of four films from the CFC’s 2013 short dramatic film program.
VIFF introduces two new film awards
The festival is also adding the B.C. Spotlight film program, which will include an adjudicated competition.
Peace Point sells lifestyle, factual series to Australasia
Toronto-based Peace Point Entertainment’s distribution arm sold series including Bake with Anna Olson (pictured) and Reality Obsessed into the territory.
CMF disburses $1.9M to 10 diverse convergent projects
The TV productions feature digital components in languages including Mandarin, Spanish, Italian and Persian.
YouTube helps accelerate TV: upfront
Google execs told attendees at YouTube’s first Canadian upfront that creators should use the video streaming platform as a participatory social network to engage fans with shareable content.
Finissant(e)s, The Manor booked into Karlovy Vary
(UPDATED) The films from Rafael Ouellet and Shawney Cohen, respectively, will screen in competition at the Czech Republic festival (The Manor pictured).
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films June 7 to June 13, 2013
Sarah Prefere La Course is the top Canadian film for the week of June 7 to June 13, 2013.
Hot Sheet: Top 10 films June 7 to June 13, 2013
Now You See Me tops the box office, while Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s directorial debut, This is the End is #9.
The definitive CDN broadcast and production resource.Over 5,000 company listings!
