Deals close in France, Spain, Portugal.
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has announced a string of key European deals from the EFM on Ken Scott’s Canadian comedy Goodbye Happiness (Au Revoir La Bonheur).
Apollo Films has acquired the film for France and will release theatrically this spring. Deals also closed with A Contracorriente Films for Spain and Outsider Films for Portugal with plans for a theatrical release later this year.
The French-language feature was released in theatres in Quebec by Les Films Opale in December and centres on four brothers at odds with each other who gather at the family summer...
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has announced a string of key European deals from the EFM on Ken Scott’s Canadian comedy Goodbye Happiness (Au Revoir La Bonheur).
Apollo Films has acquired the film for France and will release theatrically this spring. Deals also closed with A Contracorriente Films for Spain and Outsider Films for Portugal with plans for a theatrical release later this year.
The French-language feature was released in theatres in Quebec by Les Films Opale in December and centres on four brothers at odds with each other who gather at the family summer...
- 3/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The inaugural season of CBC and HBO Max series “Sort Of” leads both the television and overall 2022 Canadian Screen Award nominations with 13 nods. CBC’s “Pretty Hard Cases” and CTV Sci-Fi Channel’s “Wynonna Earp” with 11 each, and CBC’s “Coroner” and “Kim’s Convenience” with 10 each are the other leading television nominees.
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television revealed on Tuesday 145 nominations across television, film and digital media categories. In film, Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson’s “Scarborough” and Danis Goulet’s “Night Raiders” top the nominations with 11 each, while Michael McGowan’s “All My Puny Sorrows” has eight and Bretten Hannam’s “Wildhood” and Ivan Grbovic’s “Drunken Birds” six each.
“21 Black Futures” and “For the Record” lead the digital media nominations with eight each, followed by “The Communist’s Daughter” with six.
Beth Janson, CEO, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, said: “We are so fortunate to...
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television revealed on Tuesday 145 nominations across television, film and digital media categories. In film, Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson’s “Scarborough” and Danis Goulet’s “Night Raiders” top the nominations with 11 each, while Michael McGowan’s “All My Puny Sorrows” has eight and Bretten Hannam’s “Wildhood” and Ivan Grbovic’s “Drunken Birds” six each.
“21 Black Futures” and “For the Record” lead the digital media nominations with eight each, followed by “The Communist’s Daughter” with six.
Beth Janson, CEO, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, said: “We are so fortunate to...
- 2/15/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Sales talks to commence with EFM buyers.
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has come on board to represent worldwide sales on Antonia Campbell-Hughes’s SXSW premiere It Is In Us All and will start talks with EFM buyers.
Campbell-Hughes wrote and also has a role in the Irish film starring Cosmo Jarvis from Peaky Blinders and The Evening Hour about a formidable man who cares for nothing and is forced to confront his self-destructive nature when a violent car crash involving a sexually charged boy challenges him to face his truth.
Claes Bang (The Square) and newcomer Rhys Mannion round out the...
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has come on board to represent worldwide sales on Antonia Campbell-Hughes’s SXSW premiere It Is In Us All and will start talks with EFM buyers.
Campbell-Hughes wrote and also has a role in the Irish film starring Cosmo Jarvis from Peaky Blinders and The Evening Hour about a formidable man who cares for nothing and is forced to confront his self-destructive nature when a violent car crash involving a sexually charged boy challenges him to face his truth.
Claes Bang (The Square) and newcomer Rhys Mannion round out the...
- 2/3/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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