This year’s Industry Conference features the previously announced Works-in-Progress screenings and Deal Maker program.
The partnership will focus on formats and series for Canadian and international markets.
The 46th edition of the festival will feature showcases, networking opportunities and programming spotlighting Korean content.
CTV’s Children Ruin Everything and the CBC series Bones of Crows and Run the Burbs have each been recognized with 12 nominations.
75 producers and creators will head to the festival in June, with 25 selected to take part in facilitated pitch meetings.
Blue Ant’s listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange will follow a separate transaction involving Boat Rocker’s co-founders buying out their company’s studios business.
The organizations will seek to increase support for First Nations and Inuit prodcos in Quebec.
Despite the setback, industry association executive director Robert Hardy is still bullish on the province’s future productions.
CEO Tammy Frick says the show’s extended 90-minute showtime, airing solely on CBC Gem for the first time since 2021, will tap into surging Canadian pride.
The pair were most recently behind the Crave series Made for TV with Boman Martinez-Reid.