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The Porter earns 2022 Emmy nomination
A number of homegrown actors and creatives, as well as Canadian-shot series, are up for core categories in the 74th annual Emmy Awards.
ACTRA mediation with group representing advertising agencies fails to make progress
The actors’ union staged protests outside of ad agency offices this week in a bid to have them be part of negotiations for a new National Commercial Agreement.
Headspinner partners with former Wiggles star Emma Watkins
The Toronto prodco is in development on the preschool series Emma Memma: Sing. Dance. Sign. with Watkins’ production banner Apricot Sea.
Documentary pioneer Terence Macartney-Filgate dies at 97
The prolific director helped develop the direct cinema movement with the National Film Board of Canada, starting in the 1950s.
Sanaa Lathan’s On the Come Up set for TIFF debut
Lathan’s directorial feature film debut is the third world premiere – and third title in total – announced for the Toronto International Film Festival’s 47th edition.
Hot Sheet: Toronto-shot Star Trek: Strange New Worlds beams onto multiple charts
Meanwhile, Canadian titles such as Property Brothers: Buying and Selling and Save My Reno appeared on the Edmonton regional top 30 chart.
NFB inks distribution deal with Tubi
Tubi is now streaming 29 NFB-produced titles, including Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s Angry Inuk, Félix Rose’s The Rose Family, and Tiffany Hsiung’s The Apology.
Warner Bros. Discovery Access names 2022 directors, writers participants
Run in partnership with the Canadian Academy, the initiatives include the inaugural WBD Access x Canadian Academy Directors Program and the second year of the writers program.
Crave orders docuseries on Montreal influencer drug scandal
Set for a December release, the three-part series is produced by Montreal’s Urbania and Connect3.
Disney+ Canada hires Toronto-based head of partnerships
Justin Erdman will build private- and public-sector partnerships to drive subscriber growth and viewer engagement with the streamer’s content.
Portraits From a Fire among big Leo Award winners
Trevor Mack’s feature won five trophies, as did British Columbia: An Untold History and A Clüsterfünke Christmas, at the B.C. film and TV awards.
Mongrel Media boards Jamie Kastner’s first scripted feature
Currently in development, the film is a fictional take on Kastner’s 2017 documentary The Skyjacker’s Tale, about an American fugitive living in Cuba.
Shaftesbury finds ‘quick access’ with AMC for projects like SisterS
Shaftesbury chairman and president Christina Jennings says their strategic partnership with AMC Networks gives them easy access to resources, connections, and funding for projects like SisterS.
Nelvana adds Breakthrough’s Aliy Brown to sales team
As digital sales and partnerships manager, Brown will focus on sales and distribution within the AVOD and FAST channel space.
CRTC calls for comments on treatment of stock footage costs
The Commission is considering the same modification the CAVCO office has made, recategorizing stock footage when calculating Cancon cost requirements.
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