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TIFF13 Industry Conference Highlights: Engaging your audience

Five key takeaways from Monday’s panel on rallying superfans for your next film.

Production starts on 19-2, Bravo’s Quebec cop drama adaptation

Benz Antoine (pictured), Maxim Roy, Isabelle Latendresse and Laurence Lebouef have joined the cast for the English language version of the popular French-language series.

Tricon lands Pivot programming

The Toronto-based producer and distributor has landed the international distribution rights to factual and scripted programming being made for Participant Media’s new network Pivot. (Pictured: HitRECord on TV!)

Entertainment One sells City comedy Seed to The CW

The youth-skewing U.S. network looks to the Canadian sitcom to get deeper into comedy.

Marianne Culbert

Marianne Culbert joins Mercury Filmworks

The former Nelvana executive becomes VP of production at the animation studio.

The 2013 10 To Watch: Brandon James Scott

The award-winning illustrator, designer and director at Guru Studio has racked up kudos for his pre-school animated series Justin Time.

Hot Sheet

Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs Aug. 19 to Aug. 25, 2013

Epic is the top-selling DVD for the week of Aug. 19 to Aug. 25, 2013.

The 2013 10 To Watch: Patrick O’Sullivan

The production development exec, who has worked at CTV, the CFC and CBC, is now launching New Metric Media with producer (and 2012 10 to Watch-er) Mark Montefiore.

TIFF13 Industry Conference Highlights

Highlights from TIFF Industry Conference sessions featuring Participant Media’s Jeff Skoll and Plan B Entertainment’s Dede Gardner.

Selling the second screen: The Project: Guatemala

Rogers Media exec Kamaldi Badlu discusses the marketing and sales strategy behind online after-show that will support the OLN reality series.

Ag-Com Productions launches The Rural Channel

Founder Helen Wilson discusses the plans for the specialty channel and its programming lineup.

The 2013 10 To Watch: Sean Patrick O’Reilly

The “media-agnostic” founder and CEO of Vancouver-based Arcana Comics says the company’s business strategy is to develop and produce content from the Arcana library while holding on to the rights.