Sunny Side ’22: CBC is among the pubcasters in an initiative looking for high-quality science doc films.
Hubbard says the feature doc, which looks at the “rematriating” of buffalo and is bound for CBC, APTN and a festival launch, is her most ambitious project yet.
Other winners at the eighth annual awards gala included documentary Freedom Swell from Marie and Meaghan Wright.
Produced by Toronto-based prodco Good Earth Productions, Tripping Train 185 will begin filming in July.
ComediHa! and Zone3 sell the adapted format of In Lieu of Flowers to Italian prodco Stand By Me, Films We Like acquires the Canadian rights to documentary feature Geographies of Solitude, and more.
Five directors, five producers, five writers and four editors were chosen from a record number of submissions.
The documentary titled, Cut Print Thank You Bye, will be directed by Montreal filmmaker Marie-Julie Dallaire and produced by Item 7’s founder Pierre Even.
Plus: Big Time Decent’s Backroad Truckers is in production for season two, 3 Arts Entertainment launches a Toronto office, and more.
The sales, financing and production company will be headed by McGillivray in Toronto.
Guild members will begin a five-day voting process on June 19 on the tentative deal reached with the CMPA and AMPTP.
Sphere Animation copro The Game Catchers gets a second season and sales, OUTtv launches on The Roku Channel in the U.S., Bell Media partners with FilmRise, and more.