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Film
Fantasia brings Frontieres market to Brussels
The Montreal genre festival’s co-production market format will debut at the European festival in April 2014.
Rhombus Media producing Stephen Dunn debut feature
Closet Monster is in pre-production and set for a summer 2014 shoot, with Niv Fichman producing (Dunn’s Life Doesn’t Frighten Me pictured).
Canuck feature heads to San Fran distribution lab
I Put a Hit on You, directed by Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart (pictured), will participate in the first chapter of the A2E: Artist to Entrepreneur series of labs from the San Francisco Film Society.
D Films lands distribution pact with Universal Studios
The agreement sees Univeral Studios Home Entertainment Canada distributing all D Film’s current and future film and TV programs to the home marketplace.
Image takes U.S. rights to Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
The U.S. distributor will release the genre picture on DVD and digital download from July 30, 2013.
Hot Docs ’13: Ondi Timoner talks art and entrepreneurship
During a keynote address at the Toronto festival’s industry conference, the Dig! and We Live In Public director (pictured) urged fellow documentarians to adopt a tech entrepreneur’s mindset.
NFB launches pay multiplatform service for docs
The National Film Board of Canada is launching the service for docs which it hopes will become “the Netflix of documentaries,” allowing filmmakers to be connected “almost instantaneously with their audiences.”
Indiecan takes Canadian rights to Oil Sands Karaoke
The feature-length documentary directed by Charles Wilkinson (pictured) about five Northern Alberta oil patch workers vying to win a karaoke contest had its world premiere at Hot Docs last week.
Wayne Brady to host Banff Rockie Awards
Entertainment Tonight co-anchor Rob Marciano will host the industry awards luncheon at the upcoming Canadian media confab (Brady pictured).
Restored Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz secures Cannes selection
The 1974 classic Ted Kotcheff film, starring Richard Dreyfuss (pictured), was restored in an initiative spearheaded by The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
Lithuanian remake deal for My Awkward Sexual Adventure
The option deal follows earlier agreements for remakes of Sean Garrity’s 2012 comedy for France and South Korea.
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films Apr. 19 to Apr. 25, 2013
Rob Stewart’s Revolution tops the box office for the week of Apr. 19 to Apr. 25, 2013.
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