Exec producer Sheila Hockin and Game of Thrones director Jeremy Podeswa are also among the festival’s award winners.
The Vancouver-based showrunner replaces outgoing president Jill Golick, whose term expired last week.
New Metric Media’s Bad Blood (pictured) and Circle Blue Media’s Angelique’s Island are among the projects selected to receive funding.
Following launches in markets including the U.K. and Australia, the reality-focused platform from NBCUniversal International will arrive in Canada before year’s end.
The new program, Hot Docs Partners, aims to connect financiers with feature-length projects, with Toronto’s Blue Ice Docs signing on as the lead investor.
The new funding will support Canadian theatres’ promotional efforts for homegrown films.
With its new flagship studio, the U.S. company aims to create 400 new jobs in the city by 2020.
Created by Slasher‘s Aaron Martin, the 10-episode sci-fi series will start production in Vancouver this summer.
With help from some social influencers, the creators of CBC’s My 90-Year-Old Roommate aim to find new audiences for the series’ second season.
Primetime programming like NCIS and Seal Team won’t be available on the SVOD until seven days after its Canadian linear broadcast.
Theatrical production volatility and steady decreases in TV production have contributed to the declines, according to a new report from the Quebec English-language Production Council.