Film

Hot Docs racks up film sales in crisis-era market

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.

Bravo!FACT launches YouTube channel and In Short film series

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.

Hell on Wheels to enter production in Calgary

Entertainment One, along with Nomadic Pictures, will start rolling the cameras in Alberta for AMC original series Hell of Wheels on May 16.

Hot Docs, Blue Ice Film team on million-dollar fund

The Hot Docs-Blue Ice Film Documentary Fund aims to provide support to independent documentary filmmakers based in developing African countries.

Telefilm intros new short film program at Cannes

As part of the 6th annual Perspective Canada screenings at the Cannes Film Market, Telefilm will be launching new initiative, Not Short on Talent.

Films We Like nabs Ballad of Genesis for Canadian distribution

Marie Losier’s doc premieres Wednesday at Hot Docs and is slated to open across Canada in October.

Harland Williams and Rainmaker pact on Ting & Juma: The Movie

Ting & Juma, the company mascots at Rainmaker Entertainment, will receive an animated feature treatment, via veteran Canadian stand up comic Harland Williams.

CBC’s documentary channel joins The Team at Hot Docs

The White Pines Pictures doc shot without a Canadian broadcaster on board has snagged a domestic TV deal on the eve of its Hot Docs date.

Films We Like picks up Canadian rights to Conan O’Brien doc

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.

Hot Docs opens strongly, absent broadcasters

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 promises Burmese pop stars and crowd-funded pirates

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 pumps up the star power

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.