Film

Whistler Film Festival announces full lineup for 2024 edition

The Canadian lineup includes a Trailer Park Boys spinoff film and two music-focused documentaries.

Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat boards Don’t F**k with Ghosts

Producer and star Adam Rodness discusses the film, which follows 2020’s Faking a Murderer, and the future plans for the film series.

G. Patrick Condon wraps dark comedy in Newfoundland

White People Helping follows a white couple who try to manipulate an Indigenous gardener into giving up his cottage.

Deals: Blue Fox Entertainment, Bravo, Pluto TV

Blue Fox Entertainment acquires worldwide rights to This Too Shall Pass, Rogers brings Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen to Bravo in Canada, and more.

Telefilm sets key changes for 2025-26 Production Program

The changes include a new framework for certain minority copros and expanded carbon footprint reporting requirements.

Pins and Needles gets world premiere at Blood in the Snow

Villeneuve’s horror-thriller follows a diabetic biology student who must escape a deadly cat and mouse game.

All Too Clear doc gets multiple cuts to meet buyer demand

Co-directors Zach Melnick and Yvonne Drebert discuss the self-distribution strategy behind their Great Lakes doc.

Seven films to contend in RIDM’s National Feature Competition

The competition at the Montreal International Documentary Festival highlights seven documentaries from Quebec and Canadian filmmakers.

In Brief: Intercepted doc gets Gotham Awards nom

Plus: A Canadian doc is among the recipients of the Sundance Sandbox Fund and Justin Simms’ Sons sets it world premiere.

SODEC funds four feature films for production

The projects were chosen as part of the second round of fiction film support for the year.

Sebastian McKinnon sets debut feature with The Stolen Child

The film, also written by McKinnon, is based on the Kin Fables film project from him and his brother Ben.

Rebeka Herron wins $60K Forest City Film Festival film pitch prize

The winning pitch, Broken Bones, is a horror thriller starring Sarah Cleveland.