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Yap Films
CSAs ’23: BLK: An Origin Story leads first night with five awards
Other multiple winners at the News, Documentary & Factual Awards included We’re All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel) with four and To Kill a Tiger with three.
Emmys ’21: Hitting the right note for How it Feels to Be Free
Yap Films producers discuss the Emmy campaign for the documentary film about icons such as Lena Horne, Cicely Tyson and Nina Simone, who paved the way for Black women in the U.S.
Blue Ant Media greenlights Canadian originals for 2021/22
The factual and lifestyle lineup includes two co-productions with fellow Canadian broadcaster APTN with original commissions across Cottage Life, T+E, Love Nature and Smithsonian Channel.
Netflix takes int’l rights for Yap Films’ Unabomber docuseries
The four-hour docuseries, commissioned by Reelz, arrives two years after the story of Ted Kaczynski was adapted as a scripted series by Discovery.
Deals: Breakthrough, Portfolio, Yap Films
Breakthough reveals its factual and scripted sales ahead of MIPCOM, while Portfolio and Yap Films list new acquisitions and productions for the fall market.
CMF awards $5.5M across 14 docs
Rezolution Pictures’ Red Fever and 90th Parallel’s Michelle Latimer-directed Inconvenient Indian are two of the projects to receive funding.
Travelers, Giver win at Rockie Awards
Canadian projects took home eight awards from the annual Banff World Media Festival Program Competition.
In Brief: WIDC winner; Canadians up for Independent Spirit Awards
Gloria Ui Young Kim won the annual Women in the Director’s Chair feature film prize, Stella Meghie’s Jean of the Joneses recognized, plus more news of the week.
Yap Films helms Star Trek special for Discovery, Smithsonian
The two-hour special, Building Star Trek (pictured), will air this fall on Discovery Canada and Smithsonian channel in the U.S.
NGCI goes for Cold Water Gold
National Geographic Channels International picks up the Paperny Entertainment series (airing as Cold Water Cowboys in Canada) in addition to two other Canadian coproduced specials.
Syfy greenlights magic series Close Up Kings
The reality series, which follows three sleight-of-hand artists as they travel the U.S., is a coproduction between London’s Zig Zag Productions and Toronto’s Yap Films. (From Realscreen)
Cineflix Rights acquires series from Yap Films, Hive Content
Cineflix’s U.K. distribution arm has picked up Canadian prodco Yap Films’ Battle Factory and Hive Content’s Food, Booze & Tattoos (pictured).
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