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Sisters & Brothers dominates UBCP/ACTRA awards in Vancouver
Camille Sullivan won for best actress and Kacey Rohl took top honours for best newcomer for their star turns in the Carl Bessai feature (pictured), which earlier this year won big at the Leo Awards.
ACTRA hires new research chief
Jacob Leibovitch, who formerly was the Ontario Taxi Workers Union’s executive director, joins ACTRA effective immediately.
Weekly roundup: New four-screen offering, Grey Cup and screen SOCAN
Eastlink’s rollout of its Eastlink to Go offering includes access to Hollywood Suite’s VOD movie channels on four screens.
CMF invests $8.9M in 31 projects
The Canada Media Fund invested $1.3 million in Aboriginal program projects, $2 million in the diverse languages program, and $5.6 million in 18 Francophone minority projects.
Toronto prodco backs film to shoot in Louisiana
Enriching Pictures has agreed to produce Thomasina, based on a children’s novel of the same name, with Seven Arts Filmed Entertainment Louisiana.
TSN appoints two new execs
Both joining TSN after roles at Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, Mark Silver is appointed senior director, digital, while Nathalie Cook will take on the newly-created role of VP integrated marketing and partnerships.
Norm Bolen, Louise Lore leave Hot Docs board of directors
Heading towards its 20th edition, the doc festival brought Barry Avrich (pictured), Charlotte Engel and Katarina Soukup into the boardroom.
Halifax ani company releases first pop-up eBooks
Huminah Huminah Animation’s new Funibooks division has launched the first pop-up eBooks for the Barnes & Noble Nook tablet based on its popular animated kids TV series I’m A Dinosaur.
Omnifilm launches Primeval apps
Primeval: dFX – Dino Movie Maker (pictured) lets users insert dinosaurs from the series into their own video clips, while Primeval: New World lets users play missions as series characters, both with in-app purchase options.
The Interrupters wins audience award at Regent Park Film Festival
And Toronto artist Chase Joynt won the most promising filmmaker prize for a short film about an Orthodox Jewish mother and her transgender son (The Interrupters pictured).
New Nelvana titles to kick off KidsCo 2013 sked
Series including Grossology, Jacob Two-Two and Babar will premiere on the channel, a joint venture owned by NBCUniversal and Toronto-based Corus Entertainment.
Nat Geo picks up Highway Thru Hell
The U.S. cable network has picked up Vancouver-based Great Pacific Media’s unscripted series about a Canadian highway rescue team (pictured) from Beyond Distribution.
Diane Rankin leaving DRG
The Canadian exec, currently SVP of acquisitions for the U.K.-based distributor, will remain until the end of the year to ensure a smooth transition, with ex-Target Entertainment exec Ali Hill appointed as head of acquisitions .
Jason James’ That Burning Feeling starts shooting in Vancouver
The indie feature stars Paulo Costanzo, Tyler Labine and John Cho, and was groomed for the cameras by the Telefilm Canada/Canadian Film Centre comedy lab, in partnership with the Just For Laughs comedy festival.
Shaw Media two years later
SVP of content Barb Williams talks about changes, challenges and new-found strengths on the company’s second anniversary.
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