Indie producer Copperheart Entertainment is set to start shooting next month the feature 88 Arletta Avenue, with Randall Cole directing.
Despite darkened skies, the mood was upbeat at the Canadian Film Centre’s annual TIFF barbeque on Sunday, thanks to a $9 million funding boost announced by the Ontario government.
Martin Landau is in talks to top-line Born Into This, the debut feature from writer/director Emmanuel Shirinian and indie producer Spiral Media.
As the countdown from ten began and a beaming Toronto International Film Festival director Piers Handling raised his giant ceremonial scissors, the tears started to flow.
Out of the former Infinity Features, founded a decade ago in Vancouver by the late Bill Vince, has come Foundation Features, and now an exclusive first-look development deal with boutique distributor D Films in Toronto.
Stories of the wounded struggling to liberate themselves from emotional isolation, grief and regret dominate the slate of Canadian features spotlighted in the Contemporary World Cinema section at TIFF this year.
The puck has dropped on the most unconventional film ever to open the Toronto International Film Festival, as Michael McGowan’s Score: A Hockey Musical kicked off the 35th edition of the fest on Thursday at a glitzy affair at Roy Thompson Hall.
“My god, I’m finally one of the boys,” Quebec producer Denise Robert exclaimed as she picked up the CMPA Feature Film Producers Award at a ceremony Thursday at the start of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Jean-Yves Berteloot (The Da Vinci Code), John Bregar, Charlotte Legault and Susie Almgren have joined the cast of Jack of Diamonds, a backdoor pilot from Muse Entertainment and Gaumont for Showcase.
Sixteen domestic feature films will share a $2.5 million boost from the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), as the org invests in production and development financing through its Film Fund.