Also taking top honours during the ceremony Tuesday night were Smokebomb Entertainment, Blue Ant Media, ZED.TO, CBC and iThentic/3 o’clock.tv and others.
CTV in October ordered the standalone digital series, which will launch with an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure app, from the Shaftesbury’s digital arm.
The stand-alone live action series will be rolled out across a variety of Bell Media platforms aimed a young demo.
The program will look to help small teams and businesses fund and develop their digital ideas, but applicants must first prove an audience exists.
The six ep digital series, a spin-off from the The Listener, will act as an extension to the primetime drama.
The co-founders of the digital producer, acquired by Shaftesbury Films in 2008, are “moving on from their roles in order to pursue other opportunities.”
The Smokebomb Entertainment partner and executive producer of Totally Amp’d talks to Playback Daily about why a multi-platform content strategy is critical.
The futuristic web drama, to star Jewel Staite, David Hewlett and Rainbow Sun Francks, will start production in Toronto in early April.
A new 10-“appisode” series for kids and tweens features unlockable interactive content that lets iOS devices act as music, movie and design studios.
The prodco’s digital division has unveiled a mobile app TV series starring Ashley Leggat, which pairs live-action comedy with interactive elements.
Shaftesbury’s interactive arm taps a DC Comics artist to lend an animation/live-action style to its extension of the Murdoch series.