There’s money in indie documentaries? Distributors at Hot Docs think so after they picked up a raft of films at the mid-way point of the Toronto documentary festival.
The short film investor has launched a dedicated YouTube channel to reach a wider audience beyond the TV set, also unveiling an eight-part series inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.
Entertainment One, along with Nomadic Pictures, will start rolling the cameras in Alberta for AMC original series Hell of Wheels on May 16.
The Hot Docs-Blue Ice Film Documentary Fund aims to provide support to independent documentary filmmakers based in developing African countries.
As part of the 6th annual Perspective Canada screenings at the Cannes Film Market, Telefilm will be launching new initiative, Not Short on Talent.
Marie Losier’s doc premieres Wednesday at Hot Docs and is slated to open across Canada in October.
Ting & Juma, the company mascots at Rainmaker Entertainment, will receive an animated feature treatment, via veteran Canadian stand up comic Harland Williams.
Just in time for its Hot Docs screening Saturday night, the Canadian rights to Rodman Flender’s documentary about Conan O’Brien has been picked up by Ron Mann’s Films We Like.
In all, 199 films from 43 countries will unspool at North America’s largest documentary festival over the next ten days, representing a 30% jump from 2010’s festival.
Hot Docs Forum and market director Elizabeth Radshaw discusses the projects she’s excited about and how one pitch team was wooed after being found on a crowdfunding site.
Hot Docs programming chief Sean Farnel said the star wattage is one element of a 2011 festival that aims to lift Hot Docs from being a big regional documentary festival to a big international film festival.