Deepa Mehta’s Secret Daughter novel adaptation, Patricia Rozema’s Via Dolorosa and Sarah Polley’s Alias Grace adaptation are among the latest Canadian film projects getting development coin.
Cinema-goers at the Toronto International Film Festival’s nationwide screening circuit voted Philippe Falardeau’s Quebec drama (pictured) as the top Canadian film.
President of distribution and sales Brad Pelman will travel to Cannes this week to shop the films to sales agents and international buyers.
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is to honour the 85-year-old Franco-German director (pictured) with a major retrospective and a public discussion at this November’s event.
The awards, which recognize excellence in B.C. film and TV, will be handed out on June 7 and 8 in Vancouver (Becoming Redwood pictured).
The six-part mini-series, written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald (pictured), will shoot through May in Nova Scotia.
A lawyer by trade, Cooper (pictured) has spent more than a decade as a legal and strategic advisor to media, entertainment and technology companies.
The Colony is the top Canadian film for the week of May 3 to May 9, 2013.
Iron Man 3 tops the box office for the week of May 3 to May 9, 2013.
Django Unchained is the top-selling DVD for the week of Apr. 22 to Apr. 28, 2013.
Ex-eOne VP TV and digital sales Michael Smith (pictured) joins the BBC’s Toronto-based arm effective immediately.