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Martin quitting AAC
Alliance Atlantis Communications’ senior executive vice-president and chief financial officer, W. Judson Martin, will leave the company by September, citing health reasons.
People
* The Toronto International Film Festival has appointed Giulia Filippelli as senior international advisor to the OMDC Sales Office, where she will advise TIFF on expanding its sales operations, starting with Cannes.
OUTtv hearing
An ongoing conflict between Shaw Cable and the owners of PrideVision TV and OUTtv may be settled sooner than expected, following a CRTC hearing set for July 8, after which the commission will have one week to make a ruling. The ‘expatiated’ hearing is the first to be held over a broadcast matter.
ACT announces special awards
The Alliance for Children and Television has announced the recipients of its Outstanding Achievement Award and Emerging Talent Award.
Bell Fund approves seven
Seven programs with interactive elements have been approved by Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund. Production grants for the most recent round of funding go to: season two of Dragon Booster, season two of Homebiz.tv, the teen travel series KO129, season two of ReGenesis, season three of Les Découvertes de Shanipiap, season two of This is Daniel Cook and the one-off Ullumi for APTN.
Drama crisis getting to be a harder sell
If the number of one-hour dramas produced by a nation is some sort of benchmark for the overall health of a domestic TV industry, then 2006 stands to be a hale and hearty year in Canada.
Letters
Funding policies ‘devastating’ for docmakers
Muse raises $15M for Human Trafficking
Montreal: Muse Entertainment is bringing together top Hollywood names with Quebec’s leading on-screen talent to tackle the disturbing topic of the underground sex trade in a $15-million miniseries for Lifetime Television in the U.S.
Principal photography on Human Trafficking started in Montreal April 17, and will continue until June 6. The production then moves to Prague for one week, followed by 10 days in Thailand, wrapping at the end of June.
Broadcast
Ciccoritti shoots Murder
Features
Equinoxe shoots first feature in Rwanda
Service
Whizbang takes Break
Docs
They shoot horses, don’t they?
WIFT-T and Telefilm launch entrepreneur program
The Toronto wing of Women in Film and Television has paired with Telefilm Canada to assist homegrown producing talent and, through their new Media Entrepreneur Incubator program, have brought producers from nine companies to the entertainment law firm of Heenan Blaikie LLP.
T.O., Vancouver part of Technicolor’s global strategy
It was nearly one year ago that post-production giant Technicolor acquired struggling local player Command Post and Transfer, and in so doing grabbed a foothold in English Canada’s two largest markets. The past few months have seen Technicolor busy with the labor-intensive task of bringing the facilities it picked up in the deal – the Toybox video and audio post outfits and alphacine labs in Toronto and Vancouver – on par with its other locations. It is all a crucial part of a global strategy for the company, which celebrates its 90th birthday this year.
Deluxe set to launch EFILM
With Toronto gearing up for a busy summer of guest production, Deluxe Sound & Picture expects to be up and running on the cutting edge of video post by mid-June.
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