Plus: MTV2 goes dark, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival spotlights Canada and Winnipeg, and Pluto TV adds more FAST channels.
Plus: Terril Calder’s NFB installation Meneath: The Mirrors of Ethics wins at Tribeca, Blown Away heats up for season four, and more.
The lineup also includes a sneak preview of the upcoming broadcast special Skinnamarink: A Sharon, Lois and Bram Celebration.
Plus: Justin Ducharme brings Positions to Sundance Institute Native Lab, Oscar-nominated Théodore Ushev is among latest SODEC funding recipients, and more.
Plus, the NSI welcomes five P.E.I. producers for a new pilot program and Food Network Canada sets a cheese-y docuseries to debut this June.
Plus: Bell Media streamer Crave lands on Roku devices in Canada, Toronto Jewish Film Festival moves online amid COVID-19 pandemic, and more.
With the long-term goal of helping grow festival audiences, TJFF Online aims to roll out 25 films this year.
Despite the Toronto Jewish Film Festival’s growth in recent years, competition for audience share is fiercer than ever, Werner (pictured) says.
This pre-Easter edition of our briefs includes premiere news for homegrown TV series, as well as Canuck-made films at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival (Jews and Money pictured).
Among this week’s briefs, the broadcast return of Degrassi (pictured) on MuchMusic and Videotron reports that its Illico.tv iPad app has been used for 100,000 TV program downloads.