Three projects directed by women, one to be shot in French – a first for the Indigenous production pipeline.
Telefilm Canada has announced the eight filmmakers to receive backing under its $4m annual plan to support indigenous talent.
The line-up includes three projects directed by women, one to be shot in French (a first for the Indigenous production pipeline), and two featuring a mix of Indigenous languages, as well as English. Three of the films were recently announced under the Talent to Watch Program.
The selected projects are:
L’Inhumain
Director, writer and producer: Jason Brennan (Anishinaabe)
Language: French
Province: Quebec...
Telefilm Canada has announced the eight filmmakers to receive backing under its $4m annual plan to support indigenous talent.
The line-up includes three projects directed by women, one to be shot in French (a first for the Indigenous production pipeline), and two featuring a mix of Indigenous languages, as well as English. Three of the films were recently announced under the Talent to Watch Program.
The selected projects are:
L’Inhumain
Director, writer and producer: Jason Brennan (Anishinaabe)
Language: French
Province: Quebec...
- 6/28/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
by Peter Belsito
When filmmakers begin to work on a project they will usually have a vision of “who it is for”: their work, what section of society they want to enlighten, help and move forward on their thinking.
Then comes the overwhelmingly difficult job of making their dream vision into a completed film. This is always tough, hard work. Film is not easy.
One of the biggest problems filmmakers face is, that after spending blood, sweat, tears and years making a film, at the end of this difficult process they often have little or no idea of how to move forward and connect their film with the audience they made it for. They often fall back on the hopes of making it into this or that film festival which, in fact, is not a solution to the larger problem of distribution with specific marketing tactics. Festivals are only...
When filmmakers begin to work on a project they will usually have a vision of “who it is for”: their work, what section of society they want to enlighten, help and move forward on their thinking.
Then comes the overwhelmingly difficult job of making their dream vision into a completed film. This is always tough, hard work. Film is not easy.
One of the biggest problems filmmakers face is, that after spending blood, sweat, tears and years making a film, at the end of this difficult process they often have little or no idea of how to move forward and connect their film with the audience they made it for. They often fall back on the hopes of making it into this or that film festival which, in fact, is not a solution to the larger problem of distribution with specific marketing tactics. Festivals are only...
- 12/7/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
London – Production and distribution company Entertainment One has acquired Canadian factual TV producer Paperny Entertainment. Financial details weren't disclosed, but the deal is believed to be worth $27.2 million (C$29.2 million). EOne acquired the firm from partners David Paperny, Cal Shumiatcher and Audrey Mehler. "Recognizing the increasing appetite for unscripted content internationally, eOne is now turning its focus towards expanding its unscripted and factual portfolio to balance the company's diverse multigenre overall offering," the company said. "This deal will see eOne ramp up its activity in unscripted television production across North America." Vancouver-based Paperny
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- 7/17/2014
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paperny Entertainment's original series Yukon Gold follows four mining crews in Canada mining for a big payday. Variety reports that Discovery will debut the series some time in 2013. David Paperny of Paperny Entertainment said that "The Yukon is a spectacular part of the world to film in and the miners we follow are not only authentic gold miners, they are also tenacious and heroic." Yukon Gold will air in Canada on History early 2013, the channel it was originally developed for...
- 12/11/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Paperny Entertainment's original series Yukon Gold follows four mining crews in Canada mining for a big payday. Variety reports that Discovery will debut the series some time in 2013. David Paperny of Paperny Entertainment said that "The Yukon is a spectacular part of the world to film in and the miners we follow are not only authentic gold miners, they are also tenacious and heroic." Yukon Gold will air in Canada on History early 2013, the channel it was originally developed for...
- 12/11/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
TORONTO -- Bullish Canadians headed to this year's Banff World Television Festival are hoping U.S. buyers are ready to open their wallets for more homegrown TV series.
With NBC having purchased the Canadian drama "The Listener" and CBS acquiring "Flashpoint" during the recent WGA strike, local producers anticipate a full-court press in Banff to get more homegrown series into the U.S. market when the festival begins its four-day run Sunday.
"As most producers recognize, there's a push on in Canada among producers and broadcasters to get real Canadian drama back on, and also a great push in having Canadian drama picked up in the U.S. market. And we're eager to be involved in that," said David Paperny of Vancouver-based Paperny Films.
Paperny added that U.S. coin is only part of the puzzle required to finance new Canadian dramas, as producers eye international partnerships such as the one behind NBC action-adventure series "Crusoe", an official Canada/U.K./South Africa co-production produced by Canada's Muse Entertainment, Britain's Power and Moonlighting Crusoe Prods.
With NBC having purchased the Canadian drama "The Listener" and CBS acquiring "Flashpoint" during the recent WGA strike, local producers anticipate a full-court press in Banff to get more homegrown series into the U.S. market when the festival begins its four-day run Sunday.
"As most producers recognize, there's a push on in Canada among producers and broadcasters to get real Canadian drama back on, and also a great push in having Canadian drama picked up in the U.S. market. And we're eager to be involved in that," said David Paperny of Vancouver-based Paperny Films.
Paperny added that U.S. coin is only part of the puzzle required to finance new Canadian dramas, as producers eye international partnerships such as the one behind NBC action-adventure series "Crusoe", an official Canada/U.K./South Africa co-production produced by Canada's Muse Entertainment, Britain's Power and Moonlighting Crusoe Prods.
TORONTO -- Canadian independent producer Paperny Films said Tuesday that it will shoot a theatrical documentary in the spring about Canadian-British businessman William Sampson, who was interrogated and tortured for two years in a Saudi prison. Vancouver-Based Paperny Films said it bought the documentary rights to Sampson's story, who was tortured and sentenced to death by beheading in Saudi Arabia after a car bombing in 2000. David Paperny, who plans to direct the National Film Board project, Confessions of an Innocent Man, for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., said the film is timely given the number of North Americans being held against their will in Middle Eastern prisons.
- 11/29/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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