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Canadian DVD release for Danielle Harris’ Among Friends
Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada and Three Little Birds Productions will release the scream queen’s directorial debut in the Canadian home entertainment market in 2013.
On the road to Route 66 with Allan Wylie
The Canadian ad director turned dramatic filmmaker talks to Playback about the challenges of making his debut short, The Charon Incident, and working the festival circuit.
Kerry Ball wins CBC broadcasting mentorship
She will work on-site at CBC Television in Toronto to learn about production and broadcast components of scripted content for multiple platforms.
RIDM unveils web doc program
For its upcoming 15th edition, the Montreal International Documentary Festival is launching Docs 2.0, a section to showcase interactive documentaries, in collaboration with the Canada Media Fund.
BCE posts lower Q3 results, despite ad bonus from London Olympics
The Bell Media division received an ad sales bonus during the latest quarter from airing the London Summer Olympic Games, even as the TV, radio and digital division continues to be impacted by a soft ad market.
Sam Trammell, Josh Close starring in Deadweight
The Canadian indie from Neophyte Productions and Buck Productions is shooting in Sudbury, Ontario.
Don’t Get Killed in Alaska in production
The first feature from Laura Perlmutter and Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith’s First Love Films, also director Bill Taylor’s debut, is shooting in Picton and Toronto, Ontario.
Lionsgate locks in Benelux output deal
The agreement with Belgium’s Belga Films is the latest in a string of international output deals for Lionsgate.
Sportsnet petitions for the love of hockey
The sports channel played an impromptu game of hockey in the lobby of a Toronto mall to promote its online petition to bring back hockey.
108 Media taps GoDigital to digitally release film slate
The Los Angeles-based distributor will handle films like Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children (pictured) and Michel Gondry’s The We and The I on digital and cable VOD platforms.
Whistler Fest unveils film lineup, with six world bows
Jason Bourque’s Bird Co. Media and David Hicks’ The Movie Out Here have been booked into a Canadian film-heavy lineup from newly-installed director of programming Paul Gratton.
Astral Media posts higher Q4 earnings, as BCE takeover stalls
CEO Ian Greenberg said the company will “maintain the same financial discipline that allowed the company to grow in fiscal 2012 and…continue to invest in content and new products.”
Specialty channels siphoning lost Hockey Night in Canada viewers
The NHL lockout has Canadian eyeballs moving to Teletoon and YTV to watch movies, The Comedy Network for laughter, and Sportsnet and TSN for pro baseball and football games.
Nomadic Pictures co-founders in talks to produce Copper
Cineflix Studios is near to a possible deal that will see Mike Frislev and Chad Oakes come on board as producers for hire on the second season shoot in Toronto for the period cop drama (pictured).
Mohawk Girls gets the greenlight
The six-episode dramedy, produced by Montreal-based Rezolution Pictures, is slated to begin production in spring 2013 and will air on both APTN and OMNI Television.
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