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Taming the Horse wins at RIDM
The Tao Gu-directed film picked up best Canadian feature at the Montreal doc festival.
CBC unveils holiday programming lineup
The pubcaster’s festive slate includes a two-hour, B.C.-shot Murdoch Mysteries special and Larry Weinstein’s one-hour doc Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas.
Boat Rocker Rights sells 200 hours of kids content
Ollie! The Boy Who Became What He Ate, the Radical Sheep and Mickey Rogers Media copro, heads to Universal Kids in the U.S.
Carrie Stein to lead scripted TV at Kew Media
Working out of L.A., the former eOne exec joins the Toronto-based media conglomerate as EVP of global scripted series.
More than 40 laid off at Bell Media local stations
Production and post-production positions were affected, along with several on-air hosts and journalists.
AMI readies Food Spin with Chef Aleem
The docuseries, which follows a wheelchair-bound Toronto food truck owner, is produced by Montreal’s Fair-Play.
Justin McConnell’s Lifechanger rolls in T.O
The thriller, produced by the Broken Mile director and Avi Federgreen, will be distributed by Raven Banner in Canada.
Hot Sheet: Digital Demand Nov. 7 to 13, 2017
Alias Grace and The Handmaid’s Tale break the top five, with Stranger Things topping the chart.
CBC and Bell Media team with Snapchat
The mobile-focused social platform has signed its first deals for Canadian-made content.
CMF funds 11 diverse-language projects
Season two of Blood and Water is one of the projects splitting $3 million from the funder.
In Brief: Ontario small businesses (like your prodco) get a tax cut
Plus: Love Nature heads to Amazon channels abroad and Hollywood Suite preps a festive preview.
Mark Gordon Company adapting Come From Away for film
Irene Sankoff and David Hein, the Canadian playwrights behind the hit musical, have been tapped to write the film adaptation.
Shaftesbury reorganizes digital, branded entertainment divisions
Christina Jennings on why it made sense to rebrand Smokebomb and Shift2 under the Shaftesbury banner, and how that positions the company for future success.
Screen industry members launch sexual assault symposium
The #AfterMeToo initiative is spearheaded by Mia Kirshner, Aisling Chin-Yee, Freya Ravensbergen and Fluent Films.
Maria Farano joins Big Coat Media
The former Corus exec joins the unscripted prodco as SVP content, the latest in a series of senior hires at the Toronto company.
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