Shaftesbury Films
Shaftesbury Films is a film, television and digital media production company founded by Christina Jennings and based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1987, Shaftesbury is a creator and producer of original content for television and multiple platforms, with programming available in more than 120 countries worldwide.
Recent productions
Recent productions include Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures for HBO Canada, based on the Giller-prize winning book by Dr. Vincent Lam; three seasons of The Listener for CTV and Fox International Channels; and seven seasons of Murdoch Mysteries for Citytv/CBC and UKTV’s Alibi. Shaftesbury also produced a variety of award-winning programming, including the global hit series Life with Derek and the movie follow-up to the series, Vacation with Derek. Shaftesbury’s newest series, Good Dog, is a half-hour comedy created, written and directed by Ken Finkleman that premiered on HBO Canada in 2011.
Divisions
Shaftesbury’s divisions include Shaftesbury Factual, which is focused on non-fiction storytelling across a broad spectrum of genres; Smokebomb Entertainment, the company’s digital media division responsible for the development and production of original online series and companion web experiences for Shaftesbury’s slate of properties; Shaftesbury Kids, their division responsible for several children's TV shows and movies, and Shaftesbury Sales Company, which manages international sales and distribution for the company’s content.[1][2]
Television
The company's television series projects have included:
- 11 Cameras
- Aaron Stone
- The Atwood Stories
- Backpackers
- Baxter
- Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
- Connor Undercover
- Dark Oracle
- Fool Canada
- From Spain with Love with Annie Sibonney
- Good Dog
- Good God
- Houdini & Doyle
- The Jane Show
- Life with Derek
- The Listener
- Murdoch Mysteries
- Overruled!
- ReGenesis
- The Shields Stories
Film
Television films produced by Shaftesbury have included:
- External Affairs, an adaptation of Timothy Findley's play The Stillborn Lover
- Michael Ignatieff's novel Scar Tissue
- Hemingway vs. Callaghan, an adaptation of Morley Callaghan's That Summer in Paris
- Except the Dying, Poor Tom Is Cold and Under the Dragon's Tail, the first three novels in Maureen Jennings' Murdoch Mysteries franchise which was later adapted by the company into a weekly series
- Torso, a dramatization of the murder trial of Evelyn Dick
- Terry, a biopic of Terry Fox
- six Joanne Kilbourn mysteries, based on the novels by Gail Bowen
- Eight Days To Live
- In God's Country
- Mount Pleasant
- The Good Times Are Killing Me
- Skyrunners
Cinema films have included:
- Swann, based on the novel by Carol Shields,
- Conquest
- Painted Angels
- Camilla
- Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity
Digital films, produced by digital arm Smokebomb Entertainment, include:
Digital
The company's digital series projects, produced by digital arm Smokebomb Entertainment, have included:
- Backpackers
- State of Syn
- Unlikely Heroes
- Murdoch Mysteries: The Curse of the Lost Pharaohs
- Murdoch Mysteries: The Murdoch Effect
- Murdoch Mysteries: Nightmare on Queen Street
- Inhuman Condition [4]
- Carmilla
- MsLabelled
The company's digital arm also oversees KindaTV, the company's distribution channel through YouTube.
References
- ↑ http://www.shaftesbury.ca/#corporate-info/
- ↑ Bailey, Patricia. "Decade In Review: Christina Jennings is Playback's Producer of the Decade". http://playbackonline.ca/. Playback. Retrieved March 19, 2015. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ Pinto, Jordan. "Smokebomb goes Darken". Playback Online. Brunico Communications Ltd. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ↑ Cummins, Julianna. "IPF invests nearly $2M across 17 web series". Playback Online. Brunico Communications Ltd. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
External links
- Shaftesbury Films
- Shaftesbury Films About Us
- Shaftesbury Films at imdb
- Shaftesbury Films Inc. archives at the University of Toronto Media Commons