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Serendipity Media cooks up another season of Comfort Food
Comfort Food, directed by Matt West and produced by Kathy McIntyre, wraps production in Ottawa on season two this week.
Golden Delicious wins four Reelworld Film Festival prizes
Cazhhmere Downey’s short I Remember Footprints in the Snow also picked up multiple awards from the festival.
Canadians feted at MIPCOM Cannes Diversify TV Awards
Sort Of, Pour toi Flora and Proud To Be Me were all winners at the awards ceremony in Cannes.
MIPCOM ’22: Building Bones of Crows’ hybrid model
The team behind Marie Clements’ CBC miniseries and feature discuss how the unique two-format approach helped finance the ambitious story.
Canadian AVOD, FAST network JOIN TV to launch in 2023
Co-founder Gordon Weiske discusses the network’s acquisition and ad revenue strategies, as well as their post-launch original programming ambitions.
VIFF announces nine audience award winners
Marie Clements’ Lay Down Your Heart and Kathleen S. Jayme’s The Grizzlie Truth are among the Canadian titles honoured.
Blue Ant sets first original for FAST channel HauntTV
B.C.-based docuseries Haunted Gold Rush will be released on HauntTV in the U.S. on Oct. 27 before heading to T+E in Canada.
REMC report gives insight on financial health of BIPOC-led procos, non-profits
The first-ever BIPOC Community Mapping report was funded by Telefilm and offers data on the annual production volume and financing sources of participating companies.
OUTtv commissions, renews unscripted titles
The Canadian LGBTQ+ network has ordered three reality series, in addition to renewing the docuseries Pride for a fourth season.
Wattpad Webtoon Studios, GPM team on Boot Camp film
Great Pacific Media is producing for Thunderbird Entertainment’s scripted division, while Wattpad Webtoon Studios manages global sales and distribution.
Omnifilm adds production, business development execs
The Vancouver-based prodco has hired industry veterans Nicole Shizuka Oguchi and Phil Klapwyk to help build its “value proposition” as a producer of “projects of any size and scope.”
APTN lumi orders anthology series Tales from the Rez
Written and directed by Blackfoot filmmaker Trevor Solway, the horror-comedy anthology series is currently in production in Siksika, Alta.
Deals: Cineflix Rights, Indiecan, Pixcom, Wavelength
MIPCOM heats up as Canadian titles sell to Europe and the U.S., Indiecan Entertainment acquires two imagineNATIVE world debuts, and more.
In Brief: WIDC reveals Career Advancement Module cohort
Plus: Nova Scotia unveils its latest measure to build a local film workforce, and APTN, CBC and the Indigenous Screen Office unveil the selected scripted projects for the pre-development program.
Donkeyhead stars among UBCP/ACTRA Award nominees
Drinkwater, Tribal and Shoresy are among the other Canadian projects named in two categories for the performance honours.
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