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Exclusive: 3311 Productions is expanding beyond financing and producing independent films with a foray into scripted television.

Seasoned television executive Gerard Bocaccio has come on board to lead the company’s TV efforts as head of 3311 Television, which has assembled an inaugural slate that includes projects from Todd Field; Devin Conroy; Chris Case, Jason Biggs and Joel David Moore; BenDavid Grabinski and Dave Green; as well as Sara St. Onge.

“We see an opportunity to expand on what we already do in independent film: develop, produce and finance artist driven stories with smart budgets and the potential for global audiences,” said 3311 Prods. CEO Ross Jacobson.

The company will be finance TV development but is not expected to deficit finance production, at least not right away, and will be exploring international co-productions. Content-wise, 3311 Television is looking to span all genres — comedy, drama, mini/limited series — and develop for all platforms, broadcast,...

Exclusive: Netflix has given a series order to Trinkets, based on Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith‘s young adult novel. Brianna Hildebrand, Kiana Madeira and Quintessa Swindell are set as the three female leads of the show from Viacom’s Awesomeness.

Rounding put the cast are Larry Sullivan (Big Little Lies, Scandal), Brandon Butler, (13 Reasons Why), Odiseas Georgiadis (The Stand-In), Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why). October Moore and Larisa Oleynik.

Written by Amy Andelson, Emily Meyer and Smith, Trinkets centers on three teenage girls from different corners of the high school cafeteria — Elodie (Hildebrand), the grieving misfit; Moe (Madeira), the mysterious outsider; and Tabitha (Swindell) the imperfect picture of perfection — who find themselves in the same mandated Shoplifters Anonymous meeting, and an unlikely friendship forms. They will find strength in one another as they negotiate family issues, high school...

Pamela Fryman, Tony Yacenda and Sara St. Onge sat down with The Hollywood Reporter critic Daniel Fienberg at the Atx Television Festival for a conversation about how they've been able to put their stamp on different series by directing full seasons of television.

In addition to years on Just Shoot Me and Frasier, Fryman notably directed all but 11 episodes of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. American Vandal co-creator Yacenda also directed every episode of his Netflix true-crime spoof, and St. Onge took over as director for the second and third seasons of Audience Network sitcom You Me Her, about ...

Most viewers will know Shenae Grimes-Beech as Annie, the girl next door in Beverly Hills spin–off 90210 or youngster Darcy Edwards on Degrassi: The Next Generation. But she tells Deadline that her latest role, playing a street-smart cop with a messy personal life in procedural The Detail allows her to stop being typecast and marks the next chapter of her acting career.

The Detail is one of the hot titles for international producer and distributor Entertainment One (eOne) at Mip TV, which kicks off this weekend and the company will be hoping that the show travels around the world with the same success as other North American procedurals.

The show is produced by Icf Films in association with eOne for Canadian broadcaster CTV and has already been picked up by Ion in the U.S. Deadline spoke to Grimes-Beech and co-star Angela Griffin about the show, which follows three female homicide detectives,...

From VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for October 2017 including "Skyscraper", "Siren", "Colony" and a whole lot more:

Features:

A Dogs Way Home

Local Production Company: Singularity Productions

Director: Charles Martin Smith

Producer: Gavin Polone

Oct 16/17 - Dec 15/17

Eggplant Emoji

Local Production Company: Eggplant Productions

Director: Jake Szymanski

Producer: Ross Dinerstein

Aug 21/17 - Oct 05/17

Elsewhere

Local Production Company: Elsewhere Productions

Director: Hernan Jimenez Garcia

Sep 11/17 - Oct 11/17

Nicole

Local Production Company: True Meaning Productions

Director: Marc Lawrence

Oct 23/17 - Jan 19/18

Skyscraper

Local Production Company: Main Mast Production - Can, Inc

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurter

Aug 14/17 - Nov 17/17

Untitled Robert Zemeckis Project

Local Production Company: Stiletto Cinema Partners

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Producer: Robert Zemeckis, Cherylanne Martin

Aug 11/17 - Oct 19/17

TV Series:

A Series Of Unfortunate Events ~ Season 2

Local Production Company: Olaf II Productions Inc

Director: Loni Peristere, Allan Arkush

Apr 17/17 - Apr 20/18

Arrow - Season 6

Local Production Company:...

From VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for August 2017, including "Dragged Across Concrete", "Freaks", "Arrow" and a whole lot more:

13 Miles

Feature

Local Production Company: Habethy Film Productions

Director: Anthony Epp, Helena Thom

Producer: Shanyn Maguire, Anthony Epp, Helena Thom

May 19/17 - Aug 20/17

Dragged Across Concrete

Feature

Local Production Company: Moot Point (Dragged) Productions

Director: Craig Zahler

Producer: Sefton Fincham, Jack Heller, Keith Kjarval, Dallas Sonnier

Jul 17/17 - Sep 16/17

Eggplant Emoji

Feature

Local Production Company: Eggplant Productions

Director: Jake Szymanski

Exec. Producer(s): Jamie Goehring, Kevin Leeson

Aug 21/17 - Oct 02/17

Fatal Visit

Feature

Local Production Company: Lone House Films Ltd.

Director: Calvin Poon

Producer: Fiona Lee, Michael Parker

Jul 18/17 - Aug 11/17

Freaks

Feature

Local Production Company: Freak Productions

Director: Zach Lipovsky

Producer: Jordan Barber

Jul 31/17 - Aug 25/17

Nicole

Feature

Local Production Company: True Meaning Productions

Director: Marc Lawrence

Producer: Justis Greene

Oct 23/17 - Jan 19/18

Pup Start...

Thanks to VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for October 2016, including "Arrow", "Ollie", "The Deep" and a whole lot more: 

Everything Everything

Feature

Local Production Company: Everything Productions Canada Ltd.

Director: Stella Meghie

Producer: Elyssa Dutton

Sep 06/16 - Oct 07/16

Ollie

Feature

Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.

Director: Shane Black

Exec. Producer(s): Bill Bannerman

Producer: John Davis

Oct 17/16 - Feb 08/17

The Mountain Between Us

Feature

Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.

Pm: Penny Gibbs

PC: Michele Picard

Dec 01/16 - Feb 17/17

Tully

Feature

Local Production Company: Tully Productions BC Inc.

Director: Jason Reitman

Exec. Producer(s): Jason Cloth, Ron McLeod, Aaron Gilbert

Producer: Aaron Gilbert, Helen Estabrook

Sep 21/16 - Nov 02/16

William

Feature

Local Production Company: William Productions Inc

Director: Tim Disney

Exec. Producer(s): Bill Haney

Producer: Jonathan DeBois

Sep 28/16 - Oct 30/16

Let The Right One In

TV Pilot

Local Production Company: Ltp Productions Inc.

The Cfc is kind of a big deal for Canadian artists and over the years has helped boost the profile of a number of projects and directors including the darkly humorous family drama, Siblings, Holly Dale's Blood & Donuts, Sara St. Onge's coming of age drama Molly Maxwell (review) and perhaps most notably to our readers, Vincenzo Natali's Cube.

The Cfc doesn't only support feature film but also shorts and this year, they've produced a pair of really fantastic shorts which are both premiering at Tiff in the Short Cuts Canada program.

Anatomy of Assistance is the third short from Cory Bowles, likely better known to audiences as Cory from "The Trailer [Continued ...]...

Tens of thousands of people are about to converge on Canada's largest city for one of the world's largest film events, socializing and networking all over town. And while many of them have probably been around the Toronto block a few times in the past, you never know what's new to discover in the area. Indiewire surveyed a group of Toronto locals and insiders about their favorites places to eat, drink, shop and chill, including some of our own tips from Indiewire staffer (and on again, off again Torontonian) Peter Knegt. The results of our informal, subjective survey -- which keeps in mind the southern geographic shift of the festival -- follow. Insider tips and suggestions were provided by local filmmakers Pat Mills and Sara St. Onge, Tiff staffer Jennifer MacFarlane, EOne's Lynne Crocker, Kerry Butt, co-owner of Queen West clothing staple The Future of Frances Watson,  local media artists Shannon Linde and Alexis Ronse,...

Here at Twitch I've had the opportunity to do a number of long form interviews with the likes of Guillermo Del Toro and Bill Paxton, well established filmmakers that when given the opportunity to properly express themselves outside of simple soundbytes have fascinating things to say about cinema. I thought I'd try something of similar scope with a filmmaker unfamiliar to most. I sat down with director Sara St. Onge over hot drinks to chat at length about her first feature, Molly Maxwell. The film is charming, provocative, and quite well done, a far cry from the glossiness of High School films that traditional Hollywood spits out. At its core is the story of a young girl who falls for one of her teachers,...

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Scott Laurie's back in the Anchor's chair, and we got to talk about Cruise's latest film that seems to incorporate just about every Sci-Fi film ever made, but in a kind of good way.Also chatted about Molly Maxwell by Director Sara St. Onge, a charming, nuanced tale of a high school girl falling for her teacher that succeeds by avoiding many pitfalls that usually beset such a tale.Finally, a tease of a couple films that'll be opening at Hotdocs this week, including The Manor, Muscle Shoals, and Tales From The Organ Trade....

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Why She's On Our Radar: Sara St. Onge's feature film debut "Molly Maxwell" will open the Museum of Modern Art's 2013 Canadian Front series tonight in New York. After making a series of endearing short films -- "The Funeral," “Turkey” and “Lobotomobile" -- that screened at Sundance and Toronto (to name a few) -- St. Onge dives into feature-length territory with the incredibly affecting and charming "Maxwell." Taking on the teacher-student relationship in a refreshingly optimistic way, the film screens at MoMA tonight at 7pm and then again on Saturday at 8pm. It also begins a Canadian theatrical run on April 19th at the Carlton Cinema in Toronto. What's Next: St. Onge is currently working on the script for a new film, "Swan Dive," which she describes as "an exploration of a modern young woman becoming a stepmom, which is sometimes dark, sometimes funny, but most importantly real and complicated and messy.

Tens of thousands of people are about to converge on Canada's largest city for one of the world's largest film events, socializing and networking all over town. And while many of them have probably been around the Toronto block a few times in the past, you never know what's new to discover in the area. Indiewire surveyed a group of Toronto locals and insiders about their favorites places to eat, drink, shop and chill, including some of our own tips from Indiewire staffer (and former Torontonian) Peter Knegt. The results of our informal, subjective survey -- which keeps in mind the southern geographic shift of the festival -- follow. Insider tips and suggestions were provided by local filmmaker Sara St. Onge, Tiff staffers Jennifer MacFarlane, Colin Druhan and Lynne Crocker, Alliance Films's Milda Yoo, Kerry Butt, co-owner of Queen West clothing staple The Future of Frances Watson,  local media...