by wayne | Mar 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Animation prodco Big Bad Boo Studios has hired a new Toronto-based VP for its international development team. Nikki Whaites is the former head of international development at War Child Canada, and she has 20 years of experience running similar programs for...
by wayne | Feb 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
People working in B.C.’s motion picture industry can apply for funding to get their next project off the ground through the Province’s Reel Focus BC program. “The creative sector has helped to ease the pain for so many throughout the pandemic,” said Melanie Mark,...
by wayne | Feb 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Vancouver-based Big Bad Boo Studios founder Shabnam Rezaei remembers the first time she decided to get into the animation business. “It was shortly after 9/11, and at the time, I worked on Wall Street as a computer software engineer developing software for banks,” she...
by wayne | Feb 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
P is for pride, Blue – pride in how you’re changing the world of children’s TV. If you were a preschooler in the early 00s, you remember the original Blue’s Clues and Steve’s iconic sweater. Nick brought the show back for a new generation of young kids in Blue’s Clues...
by wayne | Feb 10, 2021 | Featured
Molly of Denali, Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices and The Unlisted (pictured) were celebrated as the inaugural winners of our brand-new Best Inclusivity programming categories at the 2021 Kidscreen Awards ceremony yesterday. But what set these three series apart...
