The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) has opened its submissions for the 2017 competition, held from September 20-24. Contestants may submit their animated features by May 26, for the major categories, (…)

SPI International / FILMBOX Channels Group has signed a multi-year deal with Eutelsat Americas to distribute ten HD channels and one Ultra HD channel across the Americas. Beginning in March, SPI (…)

Nordic World has closed distribution deals with broadcasters in Norway and Finland. As part of a 71-hour package agreement, MTV Finland has picked up nine Swedish lifestyle titles, including the (…)

The series Belle Epoque debuted last week on Poland’s TVN and reached almost three million viewers. The series premiere garnered a 22.9 percent share of Polish viewers between the ages 16-49. Belle Epoque is centered (…)

AMC Networks International has made three new executive appointments. Kevin Dickie joins in the newly created position of senior vice president, Channels Group, UK, MEA, and Poland. Joining AMCNI in (…)

Kazimir Bacic has been appointed Director General of Croatia’s public broadcaster HRT. Bacic was voted by the Parliament’s Committee for Information and Technology, with a count of 90 votes for (…)

Executive produced and directed by John Singleton, the new series Rebel will premiere at RioContentMarket on March 7, at the Hotel Windsor Barra in Rio de Janeiro. The series is scheduled to air on (…)

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) shared news that its SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal earned a Distinction Award by the Society for Technical Communication (STC), for the New York Metro, Philadelphia (…)

Berlinale 2017 came to a peak with the International Jury prizes awarded on February 18. The International Jury consisted of jury president Paul Verhoeven, Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Olafur Eliasson, Maggie (…)

Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana is boosting its senior management team with three additions to its Marketing, Licensing, and Retail divisions. Peter Crighton has been hired as director, Marketing, where he will oversee (…)