Programs from Elliot Page’s production company and the team behind comedy Letterkenny are among Paramount+’s latest Canadian slate.
The streamer’s strategy in Canada was unveiled today at the Banff World Media Festival, with a line-up of four projects in development and an original documentary from documentary filmmaker Dianne Whelan.
Actor and producer Page’s Page Boy Productions and Canadian producer heavyweight Muse Entertainment are working up Len & Cub, a limited six-part series dramatizing the secret relationship of two young men in rural 20th-century New Brunswick whose story came to light when a box of photos was recently discovered in an estate sale. Lynne Kamm is writing.
Hate the Player: The Ben Johnson Story is a scripted comedy from New Metric Media, the company behind Letterkenny, about the scandal of the titular Johnson, the former Canadian sprinter who went from “hero to zero in 9.79 seconds.
The streamer’s strategy in Canada was unveiled today at the Banff World Media Festival, with a line-up of four projects in development and an original documentary from documentary filmmaker Dianne Whelan.
Actor and producer Page’s Page Boy Productions and Canadian producer heavyweight Muse Entertainment are working up Len & Cub, a limited six-part series dramatizing the secret relationship of two young men in rural 20th-century New Brunswick whose story came to light when a box of photos was recently discovered in an estate sale. Lynne Kamm is writing.
Hate the Player: The Ben Johnson Story is a scripted comedy from New Metric Media, the company behind Letterkenny, about the scandal of the titular Johnson, the former Canadian sprinter who went from “hero to zero in 9.79 seconds.
- 6/12/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Does corporate influence have an effect on the spread of diseases like Covid-19? Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott, the filmmakers behind 2003’s “The Corporation,” are back with a sequel, “The New Corporation,” in which they draw the connection between how corporations have reacted to the environment and how they have contributed to the spread of disease.
“If we link corporate capitalism to the destruction of nature, which we can and do, then without question we can also link corporate capitalism to emerging diseases and there is ample evidence that this is the case,” Abbott told TheWrap’s Brian Welk during an interview for the remote Toronto Film Festival along with writer and co-director Joel Bakan.
Abbott provides an example about deforestation and how that puts human civilization in danger. “For example, if a forest is cut down and bats populated this forest, the bats have to go somewhere,” she said.
“If we link corporate capitalism to the destruction of nature, which we can and do, then without question we can also link corporate capitalism to emerging diseases and there is ample evidence that this is the case,” Abbott told TheWrap’s Brian Welk during an interview for the remote Toronto Film Festival along with writer and co-director Joel Bakan.
Abbott provides an example about deforestation and how that puts human civilization in danger. “For example, if a forest is cut down and bats populated this forest, the bats have to go somewhere,” she said.
- 10/4/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Unveiled at last year's Berlin Film Festival, Canadian documentarian Nettie Wild's informative, evocative film about the Zapatista movement in the Mexican state of Chiapas leaves one wanting to know more about the subject -- a "regional hotspot" that's a lot closer than Kosovo. The filmmakers accomplish their goal of getting one's attention.
Opening for a limited engagement at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica, "A Place Called Chiapas" includes extensive sequences with the indigenous Mayan people, masked followers of charismatic military leader Marcos, ranch owners displaced by the Zapatista uprising of January 1994 and government-allied paramilitary soldiers controlling the northern part of the state.
From June 1996-February 1997, Wild and a Canadian-Mexican crew chronicled the events of the "uneasy peace" that followed the brief, bloody Zapatista campaign. After taking over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico and using the Internet and news media to declare their goals, Marcos and the Zapatista National Liberation Army engage in peace negotiations that are strained to begin with and ultimately prove inconclusive.
While the movement's namesake Emiliano Zapata, the fiery, betrayed leader of Mexico's 1910 revolution, was publicity shy, Marcos is telegenic, articulate and a post-modern warrior-poet with his features always hidden. A mestizo from Mexico City, whose favorite book is "Don Quixote", he rides a horse and smokes a pipe and his basic, gun-toting outfit has inspired a line of dolls.
There are No Battles or violent scenes filmed by Wild, but the atmosphere is tense, even at a "post-glasnost revolutionary Woodstock" held by Marcos with international guests. Surrounded by the Mexican army and allied paramilitary forces, the Zapatistas seem committed to maintaining peace, particularly with the official indifference and outright antagonism from the country's self-destructing ruling party in Mexico City.
Offering no solutions to the ongoing situation but focusing on the plight of refugee villagers displaced by the "Peace and Justice" paramilitary group in northern Chiapas, the well-balanced but energetic and alive film concludes with a surprise Day of the Dead one-on-one with Marcos, who speaks somberly of "coexisting with death," and not being terrified of fighting and dying for one's beliefs.
A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS
Zeitgeist Films
A Canada Wild production
Director: Nettie Wild
Producers: Nettie Wild, Betsy Carson, Kirk Tougas
Writers: Manfred Becker, Nettie Wild
Cinematographers: Kirk Tougas, Nettie Wild
Editor: Manfred Becker
Music: Joseph Pepe Danza, Salvador Ferreras, Celso Machado, Laurence Mollerup
Color
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA Rating...
Opening for a limited engagement at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica, "A Place Called Chiapas" includes extensive sequences with the indigenous Mayan people, masked followers of charismatic military leader Marcos, ranch owners displaced by the Zapatista uprising of January 1994 and government-allied paramilitary soldiers controlling the northern part of the state.
From June 1996-February 1997, Wild and a Canadian-Mexican crew chronicled the events of the "uneasy peace" that followed the brief, bloody Zapatista campaign. After taking over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico and using the Internet and news media to declare their goals, Marcos and the Zapatista National Liberation Army engage in peace negotiations that are strained to begin with and ultimately prove inconclusive.
While the movement's namesake Emiliano Zapata, the fiery, betrayed leader of Mexico's 1910 revolution, was publicity shy, Marcos is telegenic, articulate and a post-modern warrior-poet with his features always hidden. A mestizo from Mexico City, whose favorite book is "Don Quixote", he rides a horse and smokes a pipe and his basic, gun-toting outfit has inspired a line of dolls.
There are No Battles or violent scenes filmed by Wild, but the atmosphere is tense, even at a "post-glasnost revolutionary Woodstock" held by Marcos with international guests. Surrounded by the Mexican army and allied paramilitary forces, the Zapatistas seem committed to maintaining peace, particularly with the official indifference and outright antagonism from the country's self-destructing ruling party in Mexico City.
Offering no solutions to the ongoing situation but focusing on the plight of refugee villagers displaced by the "Peace and Justice" paramilitary group in northern Chiapas, the well-balanced but energetic and alive film concludes with a surprise Day of the Dead one-on-one with Marcos, who speaks somberly of "coexisting with death," and not being terrified of fighting and dying for one's beliefs.
A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS
Zeitgeist Films
A Canada Wild production
Director: Nettie Wild
Producers: Nettie Wild, Betsy Carson, Kirk Tougas
Writers: Manfred Becker, Nettie Wild
Cinematographers: Kirk Tougas, Nettie Wild
Editor: Manfred Becker
Music: Joseph Pepe Danza, Salvador Ferreras, Celso Machado, Laurence Mollerup
Color
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA Rating...
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