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CSAs ’18: peopleWatching, Secret Alberta claim top digital prizes
Cross-platform companion pieces to Wynonna Earp, Canada The Story of Us and Odd Squad also claimed awards at Screen Week’s third gala.
OMDC addresses workplace safety, culture for funded projects
The organization has implemented a revised set of guidelines for funding recipients that seek to improve work environments.
Fractured landscape: Canada’s kids-content biz
Canadian producers are scrambling to adjust their business models in the face of a stalled domestic system and increasingly globalized production environment.
Hot Sheet: Digital Demand Feb. 27 to March 5, 2018
Toronto-shot Star Trek: Discovery tops the charts, followed by Netflix’s Stranger Things and The Grand Tour at #2 and #3.
Canadian projects headed to Tribeca Film Festival
Among them is Robert Budreau’s (pictured) copro Stockholm, which world premieres in the festival’s Spotlight Narrative program.
In brief: CMF joins int’l partners for Arctic Indigenous Film Fund
Plus: Baywood Virtual FX adds a new face to its Toronto team and the National Screen Institute partners on a doc to further Indigenous culture.
Industry orgs adopt Canadian Creative Industries Code of Conduct
Born out of the November roundtable meetings, the Code sets out to ensure safety and respect are the norm in work and work-related environments.
CSAs ’18: Cardinal, Alias Grace, Baroness win big in fiction gala
A fierce night of competition saw Canadian hits going head-to-head, with series across all major broadcasters taking home trophies.
The unusual suspect: Carolle Brabant
From Playback magazine: A look back at the career, challenges and achievements of Telefilm’s exiting executive director.
NFB close to gender parity: report
The funder saw 47% of its projects directed by women compared to men (38%) and a spike in the number of mixed teams for 2017 to 2018.
Canadian projects named to new Cannes Drama Creative Forum
The Donaldson Company’s Whatever, Linda (pictured) is one of the titles named to the new Canneseries In Development program.
Melissa Kajpust upped at Super Channel
With the promotion, Kajpust’s remit will expand to include all U.S. and international program acquisitions.
WIFT-V unveils genre contest winners
Reem Morsi’s Fish and Nicole Steeves’ The Method were among the projects selected for the genre concept competition.
Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs, Feb. 19 to 25, 2018
CBC’s primetime coverage of 2018 Winter Olympics nabs the #1 and #3 spots, followed by the encore coverage of PyeongChang’s closing ceremony at #2.
City renews Bad Blood for season two
The mob drama has been given an expanded, eight-episode order and will return to City in the fall.
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