The global studio and rights business has added 85 hours of Canadian programming to its catalogue.
Blue Ant International, Nelvana and ComediHa! Distribution talk about their hopes for the 2022 market, which will have a record number of Canadian participants.
The decision came from consultations between the film’s participants and the producers, including the National Film Board, 90th Parallel Productions and Jesse Wente.
The Bell Media-owned streamer also announced that projects including Carmine Street Guitars (pictured) and The Inconvenient Indian will launch on the service after Hot Docs.
Rezolution Pictures’ Red Fever and 90th Parallel’s Michelle Latimer-directed Inconvenient Indian are two of the projects to receive funding.
An upcoming White Pine Pictures’ doc is one of 14 documentary projects selected in the funder’s latest round.
The Bell Media pay TV channel revealed a raft of projects in various stages of development and production, including eOne’s Out of the Mouths.
Producers plan a miniseries and digital extensions, including an iPad app about the French explorer on the 400th anniversary of his trans-Atlantic mapping expeditions.