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Best of the Year: Entertainment One
Read on to find out how Playback‘s distributor of the year is gaining momentum to become a global entertainment player.
Rogers launches live streaming TV app for iPad
In another move to accommodate Canadians’ increasingly fractured media consumption habits, Rogers has expanded its TV offering to include go-anywhere iPad access for 20 channels.
Mr. Finckenstein goes to Washington
In a speech to an industry forum, the outgoing CRTC chair addresses the challenges of preserving Canadian content in a fractured mediascape.
Rogers unveils mid-season lineup
New shows Alcatraz and Work It headline the January launches on Citytv and OMNI.
Interactive Ontario’s Ian Kelso steps down
The Ontario digital media association topper is taking the CEO post at the Canadian Interactive Alliance/Alliance Interactive Canadienne.
Production underway for NFB’s Wall
The digitally animated doc essay, based on the play by David Hare, explores the impact of the Israel-Palestine barrier.
Best of the Year: micro_scope
The Montreal-based prodco talks about finding critical and commercial success with a strategy that balances serious subject matter with accessible storytelling.
Canadians watch most online video globally: ComScore
The measurement service’s inaugural Video Metrix study reveals that Canadians watch the highest number of videos per viewer in the world, ahead of the U.S. and the U.K.
Jay Baruchel joins Reginald Harkema’s The Rebel Kind
The punk period feature will shoot in Vancouver in fall 2012.
IPF and Cogeco commit to expanded funding mandates
Over the next three years, the IPF will make web series funding a focus after a two-year experimental program, while the Cogeco Fund will continue to fund Canadian television drama series as part of a broadened mandate.
Alberta and Quebec named locations for Amelie director’s next film
A ranch in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies will feature in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, to shoot from July to October 2012.
Avi Federgreen to release festival winners in Canadian theatres
Moon Point and Peace Out mark the first two acquisitions for the veteran Canadian film producer’s newly launched distribution shingle, Indiecan Entertainment.
The Tree of Life takes top honours from Toronto film critics
Canadian films were shut out of the pre-gala prize-giving, with the best Canadian feature to be awarded at a Jan. 10 dinner in Toronto.
Harold Greenberg Fund: $3.6 million invested in 2010-11
The industry fund’s latest annual report reveals coin for 180 projects from early-stage inception to polish and packaging.
Best of the year: Kirstine Stewart
The EVP of CBC English Services tells Mark Dillon about the challenges of her new role and cultivating a slate of Cancon that Canadians want to watch.
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