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Matt Sylvain
Weekly roundup: MIP slates, premieres and awards
Short film festival Regard has unveiled its awards, Cirque du Soleil is staging a special time-limited online donation video event, and Peace Point Rights is bringing The DNA of GSP (pictured) to MIP.
Lionsgate pacts with M-Go
Courtesy of the agreement, Mad Men (pictured) and other Lionsgate TV programs and films will be available at M-Go’s online video store.
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Mar.10
This week we see how Big Brother Canada continues to dominate Canadian second-screen experiences, beating out Being Human and Degrassi.
Si Entertainment hires Abby Ellis in sales role
Ellis, who has considerable experience as a freelance producer, is the company’s new sales executive for Latin America and Asia.
New Montreal studio to open in April
The facility in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood is jointly operated by Soner Rock Films and Blackboard Pictures.
David Shafer named eOne Television VP production
Shafer, an industry veteran who formerly worked for CBS Television Studios and 20th Century Fox TV, will be based in Los Angeles.
Canadian crowdfunding to get easier?
The Ontario Securities Commission is considering changes that would let content creators issue company shares as a crowdfunding tool. (Interactive Ontario CEO Donald Henderson pictured).
Competition Bureau OKs Teletoon, Historia and Series+ transactions
The sales, as part of the complex Bell-Astral deal, would make Corus the sole owner of these properties, contingent on approval by the CRTC.
B.C. film and TV spending grew to $1.215 billion in 2012
The Motion Picture Production Industry Association of British Columbia however says newly released government statistics don’t properly reflect the drop in production.
Weekly roundup: premieres, distribution and awards
Doc-makers William D. MacGillivray and Michael Maclear have received accolades for their bodies of work and Toronto’s Cinefranco international film festival will include English Canada premieres of two Quebec films (Catimini pictured).
The Birdwatcher takes Vancouver womens’ festival top prize
The prize for the dramatic feature project directed by Siobhan Devine and written by Roslyn Muir includes $120,000 in in-kind industry services.
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Mar. 3
This week we see that while the broadcast of the Canadian Screen Awards gala received a lot of social media attention, the strongest performer was Big Brother Canada, in part due to a focused Twitter promotion strategy.
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