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Lauren Malyk

Lauren Malyk is a staff writer at Playback. She joined the publication in 2018 following stints with the Ottawa Citizen, the Ontario Association of Former Parliamentarians and TVO's flagship current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin. A graduate of Ryerson University’s bachelor of journalism program, she also has experience in communications. You can follow her on Twitter at @lmalyk.

Posts by Lauren Malyk

Love Nature swings into the U.S. on XUMO

The brand marks the AVOD’s first-ever dedicated wildlife and nature-based channel.

May 7, 2020

Spin Master VP Linda Stregger named WIFT-T board chair

Executives from the CFC and Sinking Ship Entertainment were among the newly elected members on the organization’s 2020/21 board of directors.

May 6, 2020

Indiecan nabs Werewolf, Girl With No Mouth

The Toronto-based distributor has inked deals for the Canadian and U.S. distribution and representation rights to both genre films.

May 5, 2020

CFC, Netflix unveil inaugural feature picks

Projects from Rama Rau, Jasmin Mozaffari and Henri Pardo are part of the CFC/Netflix Project Development Accelerator.

May 4, 2020

Cineflix Rights, CBC close six-title deal

The pubcaster has acquired Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong’o (pictured), season one of My Big Family Farm and The Queen’s Green Planet, to name a few.

May 4, 2020

Behind MK2 Mile End Movies’ launch

Charles Tremblay (pictured) and Ariane Giroux-Dallaire discuss why the Montreal-based distributor wanted to launch its own VOD platform.

May 1, 2020

Cineworld won’t show films that ‘fail to respect the windows’

In a statement, the U.K. company addressed Universal’s recent move and said it had full confidence in the industry’s current business model.

April 30, 2020

Pixcom adds former Quebecor VP to team

Ginette Viens has joined the Montreal-based company as its VP, international productions and executive producer.

April 30, 2020

Attraction VP Judith Beauchemin to depart

Head of content and business development Nicole Hamilton will take over the veteran production executive’s role as VP English content. (Beauchemin pictured)

April 29, 2020

Former Disney exec joins JFL as chief content revenue officer

Marina Di Pancrazio’s focus is on producing and selling 100 hours of new TV content a year and expanding the company’s library and content business.

April 28, 2020

The Great Canadian Baking Show gets fourth season

A production start date has yet to be confirmed for the CSA nominee produced by Proper Television in association with CBC and Love Productions.

April 27, 2020

Shaftesbury, LaRue projects among Development Packaging picks

Of the 164 projects submitted for the IPF and CMF program, 13 English-language and seven French-language short-form scripted series made the cut.

April 23, 2020