StylePhoto Studios sets key hire to expand to indie sector

The Ontario studio has hired producer Jordan Walker to establish new partnerships and expand the use of its tech in the content creation space.

Clean Sweep

Super Channel makes Clean Sweep for Fuse

The specialty channel has commissioned the Canada-Ireland thriller, produced by Montreal’s Incendo Media and Ireland’s ShinAwiL.

Satan Wants You

Satan Wants You doc among Fantasia audience award winners

Additional Canadian audience picks include The Sacrifice Game and We Are Zombies.

TVO workers union sets legal strike position date

The union has scheduled a rally ahead of the strike deadline as it makes a stand over wage increases and contract workers.

Knowledge Network adds four docs to its slate

The lineup includes a project on the record-breaking wildfire season in B.C., led by Kevin Eastwood.

Farm to Fork

Bell Fibe TV1’s Farm to Fork serves up second season

The second helping of the Ballinran Entertainment culinary series is scheduled for an early 2024 debut.

WildBrain files complaint to CRTC against Bell over kids services

The Toronto media company has asked the CRTC to determine whether services such as Family Channel have been given an undue disadvantage.

Sweet Summer Pow Wow

Romance feature Sweet Summer Pow Wow underway in B.C.

The Indigenous-led coming-of-age story is directed by Darrell Dennis and produced by Orca Cove Media.

Screen Nova Scotia sets location for province’s first soundstage

The purpose-built facility will be located outside of Halifax on a 25-acre lot.

Bell Fund’s Nancy Chapelle to retire later this year

EXCLUSIVE: Chapelle will depart her role as executive director after nine years with the Bell Fund.

CBC, Crave series set for world premiere at TIFF

Black Life: Untold Stories, Telling Our Story and Bria Mack Gets a Life are among nine series in TIFF’s Primetime lineup.

Horror-western production wraps in Calgary

Morgan Ermter and Griffin Cork are directors, writers and producers on the project, which filmed across several locations in Alberta.

Utopia picks up U.S. rights to I Used to Be Funny

The Canadian dramedy is directed by Ally Pankiw and had its world premiere at SXSW in March.

Isiah Medina’s He Thought He Died to world premiere at TIFF

The film will world premiere as part of TIFF’s Wavelengths programme, with Denis Côté’s Mademoiselle Kenopsia also among the selections.

Hot Sheet

Hot Sheet: Good Omens tops demand charts

Japanese anime series Jujutsu Kaisen rose to the second spot on the overall TV chart.