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Tricon adds to distribution team
Nick Solowski comes to the producer/distributor as manager of international sales and acquisitions.
Polar Mobile heads to the Middle East
The Toronto mobile company has teamed up with a smartphone company in the UAE and will open an office in Dubai.
CMPA shortlists producers for $10,000 award
Five producers are in the running for the Canadian Media Production Association’s Feature Film Producer’s Award.
Syndicado and Journeyman head into global markets
The Toronto-based digital distributor will be taking Journeyman titles outside North America.
Canadian director shoots feature-length movie on iPhone 4
It was lights, camera and action for the smartphone as its camera was used to shoot Christos Sourligas’ feature-length Happy Slapping.
Jordan Schwartz joins Rogers Media Television
The former CTV entertainment group topper will lend his creative touch to Citytv’s Breakfast Television program, CityLine and OMNI Television entertainment shows.
Teletoon exec heads to Mercury Filmworks
Travis Williams will helm development at the Ottawa-based production services studio.
Meg Tilly toplines Bomb Girls for Global
The homegrown drama about Second World War women at work in a bomb factory goes before the camera in Toronto starting Sept. 12.
CMF pours $3.4 million into docs
Sixteen convergent projects have landed support through the Canada Media Fund’s English POV Program.
Brides of Beverly Hills and Picture Box get hitched
The Canadian distributor picks up worldwide rights to the Slice reality series, outside of English-speaking Canada.
Tom Green to host pre-Geminis livestream
The Canadian comic will host a one-hour live webcast just before the awards gala goes live nationwide on the CBC.
Entertainment One builds out U.S. theatrical film division
A restructuring of the distributor’s North American film division sees Dylan Wiley hired to run a U.S. releasing arm, while eOne Canada’s David Reckziegel gets a promotion.
Roller Town to open Atlantic Film Festival
Halifax comedy troupe Picnicface will have its big screen debut at the upcoming festival.
Piers Handling: too few commercial slots for Canadian film
The TIFF chief questions the economics of homegrown filmmaking when only a handful of movies are being properly supported for theatrical release.
Electric Car, The Whale to bookend Planet in Focus film fest
The documentary and whale tale will open and close the environmental film fest in Toronto.
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