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Film
Indiecan Entertainment acquires Slaughter Nick for President
The documentary portrays Rob Stewart as an out-of-work Canadian actor who discovers via Facebook that he has been a media sensation in Serbia for two decades owing to a past role as a beach-bum detective in a cheesy Canadian drama.
Three Canuck films make Sundance lineup
The documentary Stories We Tell, (pictured), and scripted thrillers and dramas S-VHS and The Meteor will be shown in out-of-competition sections of the annual festival in Utah.
Weekly roundup: Season premieres, awards and channel changes
Bomb Girls’ season two premiere date set, NSI online short film festival wins announced, Channel Zero unveils Rewind and ZoomerMedia’s Joytv gets national satellite carriage.
D Films takes Canadian distribution rights to The Deep
The Canadian distributor acquired long-term Canadian rights in all media for Iceland’s official Oscar submission for best foreign-language film (pictured).
Concert film Burlesque: Raunch and Roll to shoot in 2013
Directors Jason and Brett Butler and producer Jonathan Hlibka will get cameras rolling on Dec. 31 as they spotlight top Canadian burlesque artists.
Three writer-producer teams selected in Whistler’s China script pitch competition
The creators of the three winning projects – Blush, The Eddie Zhao Story and Butterfly Tale – who will now work with their Chinese co-creators to develop scripts, appealed to their potential future Chinese audiences with their pitches.
Movie Central and NSI Script to Screen projects unveiled
The five selected projects will receive funding, creative support and expertise from Movie Central and the NSI to develop their feature film concepts to production-ready scripts with market viability.
Soska twins’ American Mary nets limited U.K. theatre release
The cinema run will back the upcoming DVD and Blu-Ray release of the horror thriller in Britain by Universal Pictures’ home entertainment division.
eOne takes Cuban Fury’s North American rights
The romantic comedy from London-based Big Talk and starring Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd and Nick Frost is expected to hit theatres in 2013.
Forever 16 in production in Vancouver
The feature for Lifetime Network in the U.S. stars Tiera Skovbye (pictured) as a nonagenarian vampire who joins a covert team after her lineage is discovered.
Crazy8s short film finalists announced
The 12 finalists in the B.C. competition will work with a professional story editor to hone their scripts, before presenting them to the jury in late December.
TVO opens its second annual short doc contest
The pubcaster seeks Ontario-based filmmakers to create a five-minute doc that challenges perceptions of poverty as part of its contribution to the global Why Poverty? film project.
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