The arrangement comes on the heels of a new report highlighting the growing importance of crowdfunding to Canadian doc-makers.
Four winners were selected from a total of 37 submissions.
The horror actors join an ensemble cast that also includes Lochlyn Munro and Emilie Ullerup for the 3B Entertainment production. (Kirzinger pictured.)
This year, the Toronto festival will screen films that are not focused on music for the first time. (Film programming manager Cameron Carpenter pictured)
Blue Ant International picks up the world rights to Eccentrics, while IMAX enters the Scandinavian market.
#POETASTR, an interactive component to La maison de prod’s Noriginals doc, won the participant’s choice award at the competition run by PBS’s POV.
Dickenson will replace outgoing president and CEO Donald Henderson.
Projects that received financing in the latest round include Andrew Currie’s The Steps and the doc Digital Warriors.
Baxter (pictured) will be based out of London and report to eOne Television’s CEO John Morayniss.
The Vancouver-based company will complete the 3D conversion work on the Oscar-nominated film ahead of its theatrical re-release.
The report, which looked at the state of web series production in Canada, was presented at the inaugural TO WebFest conference held this weekend.
A total of 11 participants were selected across two programs, with writers receiving a two-week internship in the writer’s room of a Canadian drama or comedy series.