Quebec’s Datsit Sphere Buys Kew Media’s ‘Cardinal’ Producer Sienna Films (EXCLUSIVE)
French Canadian producer-distributor Datsit Sphere has made its second acquisition of a Kew Media Group enterprise, swooping in to purchase “Cardinal” producer Sienna Movies from the embattled manufacturing group.
The Montreal and Toronto-based Datsit Sphere, which beforehand acquired BGM, picked up Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny’s Sienna Movies in a bid to broaden its global-facing drama.
Datsit Sphere spans a number of genres and its portfolio contains theatrical scripted producer Go Movies, Montreal primarily based 2D animation specialist Oasis Animation and worldwide gross sales company Wazabi Movies.
In the meantime, Toronto-based Sienna makes Billy Campbell-fronted crime drama “Cardinal,” which airs on CTV in Canada, Hulu within the U.S. and BBC 4 within the U.Okay. Different TV credit embrace “Ransom” for CBS and Corus and the forthcoming “Trickster” for CBC and APTN, the indigenous supernatural-inspired drama sequence primarily based on the bestselling “Son of A Trickster” trilogy by Eden Robinson.
The agency’s characteristic movie credit embrace “How She Transfer” (Paramount/Mongrel), “Contact of Pink” (Sony Classics/Mongrel) and “New Waterford Woman” (Leisure One).
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Kew Media Group purchased Sienna for round $2.four million in 2017 as a part of a shopping for spree that noticed the enterprise choose up a number of different Canadian companies in addition to the U.Okay.-headquartered distributor Content material Media. Nevertheless, following a turbulent monetary interval late final yr, the enterprise ceased buying and selling completely in January and was positioned into administration earlier this month, with all administrators exiting the corporate.
Bruno Dubé, president and CEO of Datsit Sphere, stated: “We’re proud to welcome the distinctive expertise of Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny and the Sienna group to our firm.
“The addition of Sienna Movies to our gifted and inventive group greatest recognized for primetime drama and comedy similar to ‘Transplant,’ ‘19-2,’ ‘Rumours’ and ‘This Life,’ will give us the chance to extend our manufacturing capacities in scripted tv and have movies, for which the demand is rising quickly all over the world.”
Kawaja added: “Sienna has all the time produced tales from various creators and filmmakers that take us into extremely particular worlds. Datsit Sphere is a good platform from which to strengthen and construct on the work we have now finished with our group. Their concentrate on investing in improvement is thrilling to us.”