New award at TIFF

David Carradine stars in the crime thriller Last Hour, a France/Hong Kong copro playing next month’s Rebelfest, the international indie film festival, Sept. 6-10 in Toronto. Rapper DMX and Paul Sorvino also star. More information about the festival is available at www.rebelfest.com

The Great Canadian PitchFest has found a new home at the equally new FTX West Film & Television Expo, a four-day trade show and conference set to debut Oct. 12 in Vancouver.

* CBC’s sales wing has presold its The Secret History of 9/11 (2 x 60) in four territories – closing deals with France’s TF1 Histoire, SBS in Australia, A&E Ole Networks in Latin America and Ireland’s RTE.

Almost two years after its conception, a new program at the Canadian Film Centre is on schedule to deliver two potential new series to networks by September.

* Chris McGinley has been promoted to SVP of station operations for CanWest MediaWorks, overseeing all of its broadcast entities, including Global Television and CH. McGinley was previously VP of CanWest’s Western region TV assets.

Summer series report card

Can’t make an omelet…

Stop before you start, say Playback readers. In a recent online Playback poll asking ‘Should CBC go forward with a Canadian version of cancelled reality show The One?’, 87% of respondents voted No, while 13% voted Yes.

Tom McCamus plays Phil Lancaster, Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire’s military assistant in Rwanda, in the feature Shake Hands with the Devil. The actor’s name was misspelled in the Aug. 7 issue.

Incendo Productions has wrapped its third MOW of the summer and is closing in on a fourth. The busy production house earlier this month finished the thriller Legacy of Fear – with Teri Polo (Meet the Parents) as a detective on the trail of a serial killer – and on Aug. 28 is scheduled to start Abducted, again shooting in Montreal.

Vancouver – Insight Film Studios of Vancouver and Kaleidoscope Entertainment of Toronto are heading into production on the new CHUM sci-fi series Blood Ties. The $22-million season will shoot under the single-purpose banner of Bitten Productions, beginning Aug. 28 in Vancouver.