Apartment 11 Productions

Youth Media Alliance unveils noms for 2025 Awards of Excellence

This year’s selections include projects from Sinking Ship Entertainment, WildBrain, APTN, Lopii Productions and Blue Ant Studios.

TVOKids orders Green Squad from Apartment 11

The series is slated to launch this fall and will showcase older teens teaching kids how to make small changes in order to lead a more eco-friendly lifestyle.

In brief: Option news from Apartment 11, Mad Samurai

Plus, The Bell Fund’s Slate Development recipients and copro Night of the Kings makes the International Feature Film short list.

Deals: Raven Banner, Untitled, Discovery Kids Media

Raven Banner Entertainment signs deals for two SXSW Midnighters, while Untitled Entertainment picks up the TV and digital rights to Better Luck Next Time, and more.

Cirque du Soleil swings into TV with Big Top Academy

Cirque’s first live-action children’s show is produced by Montreal’s Apartment 11 Productions.

Bell Fund distributes $4.3M across 23 projects

Among the projects receiving funding are Becoming Canadian, produced by eOne and Antica Productions for CBC.

Apartment 11 to coproduce CBBC prank series

The producer behind YTV’s Prank Patrol is at it again, with the new series set to air on BBC Canada. (Apartment 11 president Jonathan Finkelstein pictured.)

Bell Fund distributes $3.5M across 27 projects

Shaftesbury and Radical Sheep are among the recipients of production funding in the latest Bell Fund round.

Whistler selects six for feature project lab

Whistler Film Festival has named the six producers selected for its 2015 Feature Project Lab program.

Minority Media’s Papo & Yo wins big at NUMIX Awards

The Quebec multimedia kudosfest also gave Apartment 11 Productions the best convergent production prize for its kids-based Cross Country Fun Hunt product (Papo & Yo pictured).

Bell Fund and CMPA reveal digital media program mentees

The program will see prodcos mentor up-and-coming digital media producers and offer them hands-on training in development, production, marketing or distribution.

Bell Fund awards $4 million in latest round

Projects including Zeros 2 Heroes’ Animism property, Apartment 11’s In Real Life and DHX’s Monster Math Squad land funding.