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Playback’s 10 to Watch 2022: Ryan Bobkin
The Toronto producer has had a fast career trajectory in Canada’s film industry as head of development of Film Forge, working with filmmakers Brandon Cronenberg and Amar Wala.
Majority of Canadian kids access streamers: report
Netflix is the most popular SVOD for kids between two and 17, but its competitors aren’t too far behind, MTM finds.
Fountainhead Talent relaunches as Element Artist Management
Roberta Romano has succeeded Julie Lafontaine as the talent agency’s owner and president.
Mariloup Wolfe’s Coeur de slush preps for action
Christian Larouche produces the drama, which was written by Sarah-Maude Beauchesne, based on her own novel.
Bell Media Prime Time TV Program chooses inaugural comedy cohort
The program, offered to Black, Indigenous and/or racialized creators in Canada, will have Ins Choi as executive producer in residence.
Tehranto, Out in the Ring win Jury Film Awards at Cinequest
Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot’s The Hangman at Home also won Best Animated Short at this year’s Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival.
Hot Sheet: House of the Dragon soars to top five in TV demand
HBO’s Game of Thrones has trumped over Netflix’s Stranger Things on the overall TV list for the week of Aug. 22 to 28.
Chanda Chevannes joins NFB’s Ontario Studio as exec producer
The Unfractured director has more than two decades of experience as a documentary filmmaker.
EXCLUSIVE: Garrity, Chernick go to camera on seventh feature
Director Sean Garrity and star, producer and co-writer Jonas Chernick roll cameras in Algonquin Provincial Park for Mockingbird ahead of the TIFF debut for their last collaboration The End of Sex.
EXCLUSIVE: New series adds ‘Twist’ to unscripted comedy
The spirited series is now in production across several Ontario cities and is produced by J. Troy Miller and Ashleigh Rains.
In brief: Black Academy reveals Legacy Awards creative team
Plus: WFF elects new board members and hires a manager of operations, and Quebec will have a big presence at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival.
Heritage ‘considering’ petitions as CBC/Radio-Canada licence term begins
The public broadcaster’s new broadcast licence term begins under significant industry criticism of the CRTC for removing a number of programming requirements.
London, Ontario is making an offer filmmakers can’t refuse
The city is trying to lure productions by spoofing movies like The Godfather and Fargo on billboards across Toronto.
Andrew Morris departs Accessible Media Inc.
Morris will continue to work with AMI to transition the Disability Screen Office into an independent organization, holding the role of interim director.
WildBrain brings back ‘Life With’ franchise
The mediaco leans on nostalgia for new linear content, ordering a live-action film for Family Channel that will serve as the second spinoff based on the Life with Derek series.
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