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In Brief: Montreal Girls wins best debut feature award at Female Eye festival
Plus: Forest City Film Festival expands pitch program and recipients of Music Video Production Project grant announced.
SODEC selects 13 documentaries for production funding
The assistance program provides support for original medium- to feature-length docs.
Bell Media digital subscribers offset ad revenue losses
The media company earned $805 million in operating revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2023, down 1.9% year-over-year.
TIFF adds several Canadian world premieres in Discovery lineup
Among the domestic titles debuting in Discovery are D.W. Waterson’s Backspot and Fawzia Mirza’s The Queen of My Dreams.
Sonia Thibault leaves Quebecor Content
Thibault, who has been with the company for more than a decade, will be moving into the “philanthropic world.”
Canadian officials prep B2B program for SXSW Sydney
Canadian Heritage and Global Affairs Canada are bringing a select number of Canadian prodcos to network with Australian buyers at the inaugural event.
Lionsgate to acquire eOne from Hasbro for US$500 million
The acquisition will allow Lionsgate to scale its operations in Canada and the U.K., according to CEO Jon Feltheimer.
TVO workers reject latest collective agreement offer
The Canadian Media Guild said 95.8% of members rejected the offer, but are still seeking to avoid a strike.
Christian Sparkes’ The King Tide among TIFF Platform selection
Vancouver filmmaker Anthony Shim joins Oscar winner Barry Jenkins and Nadine Labaki on the 2023 Platform jury.
CMF’s Canada-Germany copro incentive allocates over $550,000
The digital media projects receiving funding include An Empty Seat, a coproduction between Montreal’s Art et Essai and Berlin-based High Road Stories.
9 Story Media Group unveils new Open Season series
WildBrain, ABC Australia, Discovery Kids and France Télévisions have collaboratively greenlit the show for a 2024 launch.
Shout! Studios acquires U.S. rights to Frankie Freako
The film is Canadian director Steven Kostanski’s follow-up to PG: Psycho Goreman, with creature effects from newly minted Action Pants FX.
Two Canadian films to compete at Venice Days
Ariane Louis-Seize’s Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant and Delphine Girard’s Quitter la nuit have been selected for the Venice section.
WildBrain expands content deals with Prime Video, Amazon Kids+
WildBrain has sold more than 850 episodes from its library to Amazon’s VOD platforms as part of the recent deals.
‘Barbenheimer’ lifts Cineplex to record July box office
Cineplex earned $86 million in net box office revenue for the month, boosted by the dual release of Barbie and Oppenheimer.
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