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Carmilla, Open Heart take home Digi Awards
The awards, presented Tuesday evening, are meant to recognize the best in digital media content. (Open Heart pictured.)
The Film Farm boards Lights Out
Jennifer Weiss and Simone Urdl of the Toronto-based prodco will coproduce the upcoming Brian De Palma (pictured) feature.
Bron Animation takes The Willoughbys rights
Adam Wood is attached to direct the feature, and will co-write the screenplay.
Shaftesbury appoints Jay Bennett to new post
Bennett becomes the prodco’s SVP creative and innovation, while continuing to oversee Shaftesbury’s digital studio Smokebomb Entertainment.
Newton Landry Management opens Sudbury office
The talent agency is expanding into Northern Ontario to capitalize on the growing film/TV market. (Sudbury office head Matthew J. Guthrie pictured.)
CBC developing Katie Ford, Katie Boland series
The comedy will be produced by Sienna Films and Boland’s Straight Shooters Productions.
Province invests $12.8M in Northern Ontario Heritage Fund
The funding will go towards film and television productions, as well as infrastructure projects.
Hyena Road, Reunion of Giants mark Remembrance Day
Cineplex is opening up access to Suddenly Seemore’s Avro Lancaster doc and the Paul Gross feature with free screenings on Nov. 11.
Steve Nash-backed series in development at CBC
The in-development dramatic series is produced by Insight Productions and Nash’s Meathawk Productions.
Letterkenny to premiere on Super Bowl Sunday
The series from New Metric Media will bow on CraveTV with a sneak-peek world premiere this November at the Canadian International Television Festival.
Nova Scotia puts $475K into local film industry
The provincial government funds are to support location services and marketing initiatives over two years.
Deals: Mongrel, eOne, Lionsgate, Nelvana
Mongrel Media takes the Canadian rights to Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next (pictured), plus more deals of the week.
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