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Black Tree Pictures production shingle unveiled
The Vancouver-based prodco, run by actress Nicole Leier (pictured) and director of photography Brendan Uegama, have multiple projects currently underway.
Three Canuck films make Sundance lineup
The documentary Stories We Tell, (pictured), and scripted thrillers and dramas S-VHS and The Meteor will be shown in out-of-competition sections of the annual festival in Utah.
Weekly roundup: Season premieres, awards and channel changes
Bomb Girls’ season two premiere date set, NSI online short film festival wins announced, Channel Zero unveils Rewind and ZoomerMedia’s Joytv gets national satellite carriage.
Tricon’s Ex-Wives of Rock gets U.S. carriage
The female-focused non-fiction series (pictured) will anchor a new Friday night schedule devoted to original series on Fuse, a national music channel.
Tricon’s Andrea Gorfolova to get entrepreneur award
The president and founder of Tricon (pictured), who fled Eastern Europe during the end of the Communist era, is receiving the award in part for “her courage in fleeing a restrictive regime and triumph in overcoming extraordinary obstacles.”
eOne takes Cuban Fury’s North American rights
The romantic comedy from London-based Big Talk and starring Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd and Nick Frost is expected to hit theatres in 2013.
15 projects get $10 million from the Canada Media Fund
Among the projects to get commitments from the fund’s experimental stream are a live online talent contest and a downloadable 3D animation suite.
Doc series bundled into Discovery school offering
Extraordinary Canadians from Montreal-based prodco PMA Biographies is a key element in Discovery Communications’ expanded Canadian educational streaming-video services (writer David Adams Richards pictured).
Tom Green to guest star on Seed
The comedian (pictured) will play an arrogant psychoanalyst who attempts to counsel the dysfunctional families on the comedy set to bow on Citytv’s primetime schedule in 2013.
Lionsgate secures Russia, CIS output deal
The pact comes in the wake of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2‘s (pictured) debut in the region, where it grossed a franchise-best $22 million in its opening weekend in that territory.
Martha Speaks gets season five order
The kids program animated by Montreal’s Oasis Animation is a DHX Media and WGBH Boston copoduction.
ACTRA hires new research chief
Jacob Leibovitch, who formerly was the Ontario Taxi Workers Union’s executive director, joins ACTRA effective immediately.
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