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MUSE DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL Muse Distribution International is the sales arm of Enterprises, delivering television programming to broadcasters, cable and pay networks, to theatrical, VOD, SVOD, video, iTunes and to DVD distributors around the world. Muse Distribution has more than 460 hours of top quality entertainment for sale, including primetime event , captivating series, dramas, thrillers, mysteries, comedies, series for children and families as well as thought-provoking documentaries.

Muse Entertainment is a leading, independent film and television production house known internationally for its well crafted and high quality productions. Muse is a foremost expert in international co-productions, having produced television programming and feature films in more than a dozen countries. Since its founding in 1998, Muse has produced, co-produced or provided production services on more than 170 TV movies, miniseries, television series and feature films. Muse-produced programs have won over 100 awards and garnered over 300 award nominations!

Muse Entertainment Enterprises USA, the company’s operation, has reached deeply into the U.S. television market since starting up in 2008. It has realized several Muse productions including television series and movies-of-the-week, as well as numerous development deals with American pay, cable and free networks.

Muse Entertainment Enterprises is set in ’s media hub, . Muse Entertainment Ontario helps serve Muse Entertainment’s development, financing and production operations. Muse Entertainment Ontario is also the company’s centre for its new boutique factual division, Muse Factual. Muse Factual is committed to working with Canadian and international broadcasters in creating, financing and delivering high-impact and entertaining non-scripted series and specials. Offering a 360 degree approach to production, Muse Factual collaborates with talent from all over the globe in developing and producing contemporary and market-driven non-scripted programming. MINISERIES THE KENNEDYS MINISERIES MINISERIES DRAMA 8x1 hr. or 4 x2 hrs.

They’ve been called America’s royal family. But that does them – and the country – little justice. Royals are born to their status. The Kennedys made themselves into theirs in an utterly American way, through driving ambition, hard work and, when necessary, a willingness to toss the rule book aside.The Kennedys portrays these most public of figures in their most private moments of happiness, despair, intimacy and estrangement.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS LA7 AWARDS Jon Cassar (24) 365 Media Iceland MTVA Won 4 A&E Ole Networks Latin America NHK Won 3 STARRING ABC NRK Won 1 DGA Award Greg Kinnear AETN 18 ReelzChannel USA Won 5 DGC Awards AETN All Networks RTBF Won The NY Festivals (Little Miss Sunshine) AETN UK RTE International Television & Film Barry Pepper ARTE RTS Switzerland Grand Trophy Award (Saving Private Ryan) CNTV Korea Sinema TV Won 1 History Makers Award Katie Holmes Discovery Russia Sky Network Television Nominated for 10 Emmy Awards ERR Estonia SVT Nominated for 10 Gemini Awards ( Begins) Fox Telecinco Nominated for 1 Monte Carlo Tom Wilkinson Télévision TV4 AB Award (In the Bedroom) Global Canada VRT Belgium Nominated for 1 Producers Guild IBA YLE Award 3 BEN HUR MINISERIES DRAMA 2 x 2 hrs.

Judah Ben Hur and Messala are best who grew up together until Messala leaves for Rome for military training. Messala returns to Jerusalem years later in charge of the Roman garrison. When Ben Hur’s family is blamed for an uprising against Rome, Messala makes an example of them, sending Ben Hur to slavery in the galleys and his sister and mother to prison.

After three years in the galleys as a slave and his desire for growing, Ben Hur returns to Jerusalem to settle the score between him and Messala in a tense and exhilarating chariot race. Based on the original 1880’s novel by Lew Wallace, Ben Hur the miniseries is a gutwrenching, action-packed drama about vengeance and the power of forgiveness. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS AWARDS () Antena 3 Won 1 ACTRA Award Prosieben for Outstanding Female STARRING CBC Performance Joseph Morgan (Alexander) ABC Won 1 Gemini Award for Stephen Campbell Moore Ovation Best Visual Effects (The Bank Job) Nominated for 1 Gemini for Best Sound Emily Van Camp (Brothers and Sisters) Ray Winstone (The Departed) James Faulkner (Harry Potter) 4 THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH MINISERIES DRAMA 8 x 1 hr.

Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tear lives and families apart, human drama and love stories entwine. Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the noblewoman; the sadistic Lord William; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone work and Ellen, the woman from the forest who casts a curse, are just some of the fascinating characters. Based on Ken Follett’s hugely popular novel, The Pillars of the Earth weaves their stories through the political turmoil of 12th century . DIRECTED BY NETWORKS AWARDS Sergio Mimica-Gezzan PROSIEBEN/SAT 1 Won 1 Emmy Award (Heroes) Sogecable Won 3 Gemini Awards CBC Nominated for 7 Emmy Awards STARRING ORF Nominated for 10 Gemini Awards Ian McShane (Deadwood) TV2 Nominated for 3 Golden Globe Awards (Human Trafficking) HBO Canada Nominated for 1 Monte Carlo Television Rufus Sewell (The Illusionist) Movie Central Festival Award Matthew Macfadyen (Frost/Nixon) Hayley Atwell (The Duchess)

5 EXPLODING SUN SCI-FI/ACTION 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES The world’s first commercial space shuttle is struck by a solar storm. The disaster hyper-charges the space shuttle’s engine and catapults the ship on a direct course for the sun. But the danger becomes cataclysmic when it’s discovered that the event is triggering a much larger solar storm that could send Earth back into the Stone Age - if it isn’t stopped in time. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Michael Robison (Nikita) Space STARRING David James Elliott (GCB) () Julia Ormond ()

CAT. 8 SCI-FI/ACTION 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES When a breakthrough in global defense malfunctions, the result is a fireball four times the size of Earth streaking toward the planet. As fires blaze and panic spreads, a renegade scientist comes to the world’s rescue.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Kevin Fair Syfy () Space

STARRING (The Dark Knight Rises) Maxim Roy (Heartland) Ted Whittall (The Killing)

6 THE LAST TEMPLAR DRAMA 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES When a priceless artifact is stolen from ’s Metropolitan Museum, archeologist Tess Chaykin and FBI agent Sean Daly are propelled into a treacherous adventure that takes them through the sewers of , across continents to desolate Turkish highlands, to a violent storm on the Mediterranean that shipwrecks them onto a remote Greek island - and into the very heart of an incredible Vatican secret. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Paolo Barzman NBC (Being Human) Global

STARRING (Human Trafficking) (Alias) Scott Foley (Felicity) Omar Sharif (Dr. Zhivago)

THE SCI-FI 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES Filled with stunts and special effects, this miniseries is based on the legendary adventure comic strip. Chris Moore is shocked to learn that he was adopted when his parents died and that he is actually the son of Kit Walker - , a caped crime-fighter. He joins the Phantom Team in the jungles of Bengalla to be expertly trained in combat and emerges as the next Phantom to uphold his ancestors’ creed and battle the assassins of the evil Singh Brotherhood. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Paolo Barzman Syfy (The Last Templar) Movie Central TVA STARRING () Sandrine Holt (24) Jean Marchand (Trudeau) Goodman (Mad Men)

7 HUMAN TRAFFICKING CRIME DRAMA 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES This tense and powerful miniseries about the underground sex slave trade exposes the ugly world of an international ring of sex traffickers and their abducted victims.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Christian Duguay City TV (Coco Chanel) Lifetime

STARRING AWARDS Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) Won Gemini Award for Donald Sutherland (Citizen X) Best Dramatic Mini-Series. Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) Won DGC Award for Rémy Girard Outstanding Direction. () Nominated: 3 Emmy Awards 2 Golden Globes 5 Gemini Awards

IMPACT ACTION/DRAMA 2 x 2 hrs. MINISERIES A huge meteor smashes into the moon, changing its properties and orbit. Scientists announce that the moon will crash into Earth and all life will perish unless an international mission of astronauts succeeds in reversing the moon’s magnetic effects and restoring its original orbit. The survival of mankind is in their hands.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Michael J. Rohl ABC (Smallville) Syfy Channel Super Channel STARRING David James Elliot (Jag) Natasha Henstridge (Species) (The Queen)

8 ANSWERED BY FIRE DRAMA 2 X 2 hrs. MINISERIES Based on true events, this is the powerful, action-packed story of courage and love throughout the tumultuous 1999 referendum in and its horrifying aftermath. Canadian and Australian police officers volunteer for the Mission as Civilian Police, but they are emotionally unprepared for the bloody reality that awaits them.

DIRECTED BY AWARDS Jessica Hobbs Won the Australian Cinematographers’ (Love My Way) Society Award Won 2 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards STARRING Won 2 Australian Film Institute Awards Isabelle Blais Won 1 Screen Producers’ Association (Human Trafficking) of Australia Award David Wenham Won 1 Cinema Tout Ecran International (Lord of the Rings) Film & TV Award Alex Tilman (Balibo) Won 1 International Television Award NETWORKS Nominated for 5 Geminis CBC ABC Australia Historia

FLOOD ACTION/DRAMA 2 X 2 hrs. MINISERIES A raging storm and high seas unleash a colossal surge, which travels mercilessly down England’s East Coast and into the Thames River. Overwhelming the city’s flood defenses, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake. Top marine engineers experts Rob, his ex-wife Sam and his father, have only a few hours to save the city from total devastation. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Tony Mitchell BBC (Supervolcano) ITV CBC STARRING TF1 Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) Jessalyn Gilsig (Nip/Tuck) Tom Courtenay (Nicholas Nickleby)

9 KILLER WAVE DRAMA/ACTION 2 x 2 hrs.

A large corporation conspires to devastate American cities on the East Coast with tidal waves so that it can win a multi-billion dollar contract from the government. Marine engineers John McAdams and Sophie Marleau try to MINISERIES find the perpetrators of these ‘natural disasters,’ but they have to evade both the FBI and paid assassins who are chasing them before they can stop the evil-doers. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Bruce McDonald Sky1 (: The Next Generation) Antena 3 Channel 7 Australia STARRING Global Angus MacFadyen (Braveheart) (Revenge) Tom Skerritt (Top Gun)

SUPERSTORM SERIES DRAMA/ACTION 3 X 3 hrs.

Top scientists are brought together by the US government to try to do the unimaginable: control the weather in order to prevent disasters like Hurricane Katrina ever happening again. But as their ideas move from theoretical MINISERIES to practical, the team gradually realizes that there is potentially a much more sinister reason for their work: the development of a potentially devastating weapon of war. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Julian Simpson BBC (The Criminal)

STARRING Nicola Stephenson (My Wonderful Life) Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan) Chris Potter (X-Men)

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41 SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED SERIES COMEDIC DRAMA 1 x 2 hrs. + 10 x 1 hr.

The inspiring stories of four postal workers in the Dead Letter Office of the U.S. Postal System whose mission is to deliver lost letters and packages from the past, which arrive late but miraculously on time, to save lives, solve crimes, reunite old loves and change futures. DIRECTED BY STARRING NETWORKS Scott Smith () Eric Mabius (Ugly Betty) The Kevin Fair (Smallville) (The Kennedys) Bravo () Michael Rohl () Crystal Lowe (Primeval: New World) Lynne Stopkewich (This is Wonderland) Geoff Gustafson (Primeval: New World)

Guest starring: Daphne Zuniga (One Tree Hill) Valerie Harper (Rhoda) Della Reese (Touched by an ) Carol Burnett (The Carol Burnett Show) Valerie Bertinelli (Hot in )

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The dramatic series follows the Covert Investigations Unit (CIU), an elite undercover police unit which infiltrates criminal worlds. In nerve-wracking confidence games or “plays,” these cops flirt with killers, befriend gangbangers, and arrange gun shipments – all to collect evidence and coax confessions. CIU cops are full of charm and humour. They think quickly, talk smoothly and rely on their charisma to inspire trust. But undercover “plays” are unpredictable -- they can turn on a dime. If these cops aren’t convincing, if they aren’t real, if they miss one cue - their lives could be over in an instant. After posing as high-rolling millionaires, cocaine dealers and hit men, they return home and try to prevent the job from corroding their personal lives. DIRECTED BY STARRING NETWORKS Adrienne Mitchell (Durham County) Vincent Walsh (Lost Girl) CTV (Canada) Charles Binamé (Being Human) Chandra West (The Gates) ProSieben (Germany) (King) Lisa Marcos (The Listener) Kelly Makin () Dwain Murphy () Rachel Talalay (Bomb Girls) Agam Darshi () Bradley Walsh (Beauty and the Beast) Adam Butcher (Bomb Girls) Lee Rose (Lost Girl)

12 13 BOMB GIRLS 18 x 1 hr. + 1 x 2 hrs. DRAMA SERIES Set in the 1940’s, the series follows a group of remarkable women who risk their lives in a munitions factory building bombs for the Allied armed forces on the European front. Liberated from their homes and social restrictions, they embrace their newfound freedom and change their lives profoundly. DIRECTED BY STARRING NETWORKS AWARDS Adrienne Mitchell Meg Tilly (Agnes of God) Reelz Channel Won 3 (Durham County) Jodi Balfour Global Won 1 Leo Award Ken Girotti (The Sinking of the Laconia) Chellomedia Won 1 Rocky Award (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) Charlotte Hegele ITV 3 Won The Gracie Award Anne Wheeler () DR Denmark Nominated for 14 (This is Wonderland) Ali Liebert () YLE Finland Canadian Screen Awards Don McBrearty (Heartland) Antonio Cupo NRJ France Nominated for 2 Leo Awards Jerry Ciccoritti (Being Human) (L’Ombra Del Destino) Sky TV Nominated for 1 WGC Rachel Talalay (Played) TG4 Ireland Screenwriting Award Bruce McDonald (Cracked) IBA Israel Nominated for 2 Monte Carlo Awards Paolo Barzman (Lost Girl) TVA Canada

14 BEING HUMAN 52 x 1 hr. SERIES DRAMA A ghost, a vampire and a werewolf live together as roommates in a house in . While struggling to keep their dark secrets from the world, they help each other navigate the complexities of living double lives and try to build a future for themselves beyond simply being monsters. DIRECTED BY STARRING AWARDS Adam Kane (Grey’s Anatomy) Sam Witwer (Dexter) Won 1 Canadian Screen Award Paolo Barzman (The Phantom) Meaghan Rath (15/Love) Nominated for 5 Canadian Screen Awards Jerry Ciccoritti () Sam Huntington Nominated for 5 Gemini Awards Charles Binamé (Durham County) ( Returns) Jeremiah Chechik () Kristen Hager Eric Canuel (Flashpoint) (A Little Bit Zombie) Stefan Pleszczynski (Motive) Stefan Schwartz (Dexter) Jeff Renfroe (Haven) NETWORKS (Beauty and the Beast) Syfy Kelly Makin (Played) Space

14 15 BOUNTY HUNTERS 13 x 30 min. ANIMATED COMEDY SERIES Out of a dinky office, Jeff runs a two-bit, bounty operation along with his neurotic, best friend Bill and gung- ho, wild-card Larry. Jeff and his crew chase down different criminals but, inevitably, their own quirks and jumbled lives interfere. On their side is tough-as-nails, bondsman Lisa, who throws them cases and a crude word or two. They’re a rag-tag team with few tracking skills, but one way or another, they catch their criminal. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Cory Morrison (The Secret World of Benjamin Bear) CMT Comedy Channel STARRING Jeff Foxworthy (The Smurfs) Larry The Cable Guy (Blue Collar TV) Bill Engvall (Hawthorne) Lisa Lampanelli (Whitney)

16 BULLET IN THE FACE 6 x 30 min. SERIES COMEDY Following a botched jewel heist in which he is shot in the face, sociopath criminal Gunter Vogler wakes up in hospital, surrounded by cops, his head wrapped in bandages. When the bandages come off Gunter is shocked to find he now has the face of a policeman he’s killed. The police then force him to work undercover to take down the city’s crime lords. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Erik Canuel (Bon Cop, Bad Cop) IFC Super Channel STARRING SBS Australia Max Williams (Night of the Living Dead 3D) TF1 International Kate Kelton (Haven) Eddie Izzard (Valkyrie) (The Dark Knight)

16 17 DURHAM COUNTY 18 X 1 hr. DRAMA SERIES Durham County is an emotionally powerful dramatic series that revolves around Detective Mike Sweeney and his family. They say there’s only six degrees of separation between you and anyone else in the world, but sometimes it’s not even that. Sometimes the most brutal evil you can imagine is already in your world. Sometimes it’s just across the street. DIRECTED BY STARRING NETWORKS Adrienne Mitchell (Bomb Girls) Hugh Dillon (Flashpoint) HBO Canada Alain DesRochers (Nitro) Hélène Joy (Murdoch Mysteries) Movie Central Rachel Talalay (The Wind in the Willows) Michelle Forbes () ION Network Charles Binamé (Cyberbully) (Human Trafficking) Michael Nardone (Rome) AWARDS Won 1 Gemini Nominated for 7 Gemini Awards Nominated for 5 Golden Awards (Monte Carlo)

18 GAWAYN 52 X 13 min. SERIES ANIMATED CHILDREN’S SERIES The heroes return for a second season of thrills, spills, jokes and plenty of questing. They had managed to find the Crystal of Gawayn and were about to return their beloved Princess Gwendolyn to her normal size - but before Elspeth could finish reading the magic spell, someone tripped and sent the Great Book of Magic flying way off into the distance. The end result: Princess Gwen is normal size – then small – then giant. She keeps on changing whenever she stresses! The heroes have only one option: Find the Great Book of Magic – and fast! DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Christophe Pittet (The Green Squad) HBO Canada RTBF Belgium Movie Central VRT Belgium STARRING ION Network RTP Portugal Bruce Dinsmore (Exploding Sun) Knowledge Network TSR Switzerland Claudia Besso (Arthur) Canada Z@ppelin Netherlands Emma Isherwood (The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog) SRC Radio-Canada France 3 Rai Italy TVE Spain

18 19 THE MYSTERIES OF ALFRED HEDGEHOG ANIMATED CHILDREN’S SERIES 52 X 11 min. This exciting animated series for kids (ages 6-9) encourages scientific exploration, problem solving and SERIES teamwork. Each episode explores Alfred’s marvelously mysterious world where sudden disappearances, strange natural phenomena, curious animal behavior and even muddy footprints all require his detective and deductive reasoning skills. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Frederic Dybowski France 5 () Knowledge Network Radio Canada STARRING TVO Carolina Bartczak TFO (Lucky 7) Emma Taylor Isherwood (Tales From the Neverending Story) Angela Galuppo (The Trotsky)

TALES FROM THE NEVERENDING STORY FAMILY/DRAMA 13 x 1 hr. (4 x 2 hrs.) Twelve-year-old Bastian loses his mother in a car accident but recovers through his imagination. SERIES When he reads “The Neverending Story,” he is inspired to create the enchanted realm of Fantasia, where the Childlike Empress, heroes, villains, dragons, dark knights and other characters are pitted against each other in an epic battle of good versus evil.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Adam Weissman (iCarly) Hallmark Giles Walker (René Lévesque) CBC TMN STARRING RAI Mark Rendall () RTL 2 Tyler Hynes (Valemont) TF6 TFI AWARDS Won Grand Prize, Awards of Excellence, Alliance for Children and Television Won 1 Gemini 20 Nominated for 4 Geminis THIS IS WONDERLAND COMEDY/DRAMA 39 x 1 hr.

SERIES There is not much “order” in this darkly comic, law-and-order series when , a junior lawyer, tumbles into the chaotic world of big-city courts filled with too many cases, not enough lawyers and judges, and a cast of offbeat and desperate characters. As she fights to defend her clients, sometimes even against themselves, Alice’s patience and compassion are constantly tested. Occasionally, she and her colleagues manage to strike a few small blows for justice in the world.

STARRING NETWORKS Cara Pifko () CBC Michael Rily (Being Erica) ABC (Australia) Michael Murphy (The Bridge) LA 7 (Italy) Kathryn Winslow (24) Séries + AWARDS Won 4 Gemini Awards. Won WCC Award for Best Dramatic Series. Nominated for 38 Gemini Awards over 3 seasons. Nominated for Golden Nymph Award for Best Dramatic Series, Monte Carlo Television Festival.

TWICE IN A LIFETIME DRAMA 44 x 1 hr. SERIES This inspiring and provocative series taps into a universal : to be given a second chance to fix an error of the past. Every episode features a guest star playing a flawed person who dies suddenly. Two celestial figures on the other side offer him a chance to return to earth and convince his younger self to not make the same mistake.

STARRING NETWORKS Paul Popowich (The Bridge) CTV Al Waxman (The Hurricane) PAX TV Gordie Brown (Life with Louie) Vision TV AWARDS W Network One Canada Won Gold for Direction, The Christian Channel Chicago International Film Festival. Won DGC Award

20 21 FAMILY BIZ COMEDY 26 x 30 min. For Eli, Avalon and Ronnie Keller life is sweet. Three latchkey kids, they’ve made their house into the SERIES neighborhood social hub. Their folks work long and hard at their careers and the Keller kids like it that way. Teen insanity rules! But when their corporate dad gets downsized (okay, fired) and decides to apply the world of business to the business of parenting, the Keller kids’ world will never be the same. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Craig Pryce (Life with Derek) YTV François Basset (Starhunter) France 2 Luc Chalifour (Sous le Soleil) Stefan Scaini (DeGrassi: The Next Generation) Reid Dunlop (Traders) STARRING Ephraim Ellis (DeGrassi: The Next Generation) Doug Murray (How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days) Kate Corbett (How Eunice Got her Baby) Rebecca Windheim (The Last Templar) Lori Alter (Earth: Final Conflict)

CRUSOE DRAMA 30 x 1 hr. This is a story of pirates, treasure, mutineers, cannibals and heroes. Adapted from one of the most widely SERIES published books in history, Crusoe tells the story of a young man who leaves his wife and his life in England for a life of adventure on the high seas. After finding himself shipwrecked and then cast ashore onto an island, he survives by building a home and becoming a master of his life. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Alex Chapple (Law and Order) NBC Duane Clark (CSI: Miami) Jeff Woodnaugh (Las Vegas) Paul Shapiro (The Commish) AWARDS (Judging Amy) Golden Reel Michael Robison (Kyle XY) Award for Best Sound STARRING Editing Philip Winchester, (Thunderbirds) Sam Neil (Jurassic Park) Anna Walton (Hellboy II) 22 TV MOVIES

22 ZAPPED TV MOVIE 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Sixteen-year-old Zoey Stevens is a skilled dancer and straight-A student who is having trouble adjusting to a new high school and its klutzy dance squad, a new step father, three new rowdy step-brothers and an unruly dog. But things change when a dog training app on her smart phone begins to somehow control all the boys around her. DIRECTED BY STARRING NETWORKS Peter DeLuise (Cedar Cove) (Shake It Up!) Disney US Chanelle Peloso (Incredible Crew) Family Channel Canada Spencer Boldman (Lab Rats) Emilia McCarthy (Hemlock Grove) Adam DiMarco (Arctic Air)

24 REVIVING OPHELIA DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Reviving Ophelia is the story of a beautiful, intelligent teenager who finds herself in disarray when her life becomes consumed by her domineering and violent boyfriend. Elizabeth’s tumultuous story of struggling to cope with dating abuse, sexual pressures, fractured family dynamics and peer harassment will resonate with families and adolescents worldwide. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS AWARDS Bobby Roth (Flash Forward) Lifetime Nominated for 2 Gemini Awards Global STARRING Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle) Rebecca Williams (Rookie Blue) Kim Dickens (The Blind Side)

24 25 CYBERBULLY DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES 17-year-old Taylor is driven to the brink of suicide from cyberbullying, only to discover that her misery stems partially from the behavior of her best friend, Samantha, who was impersonating a made-up boy online. As Taylor meets other teens who have been viciously bullied online, she comes to realize that she’s not alone; and with help from her mother, Kris, Taylor bravely works to get a law passed in her state that makes it illegal to harass minors online.

DIRECTED BY AWARDS Charles Binamé (Being Human) Won 1 Canadian Screen Award STARRING Won 2 Kidscreen Awards () Won 1 Prism Award Kay Panabaker (Fame) Nominated for 5 Canadian Screen Kelly Rowan (The OC) Awards Nominated for 2 Prism Awards NETWORKS Nominated for ABC Family 1 W Network

HOLIDAZE ROMANTIC COMEDY 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Melody is a high-powered corporate workaholic for a retail conglomerate in a large city. She gets a taste of the life she could have had when she is sent to her sleepy hometown to convince the locals to let them build a new discount store.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Jerry Ciccoritti (Bomb Girls) Hallmark Channel Corus

STARRING (90210) Cameron Mathison (Hot in Cleveland) (The New Normal)

26 CHRISTMAS WITH TUCKER FAMILY DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES In the months following his father’s death, a young boy forms a special bond with a neighbor’s dog and learns to be a man by helping his grandparents and farmland community through a series of winter storms.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Larry McLean Hallmark Channel (Republic of Doyle) Bell Media

STARRING James Brolin () Gage Munroe () Josie Bissett ()

A BANNER 4TH OF JULY TV MOVIES FAMILY DRAMA 2 hrs. Desiree Banner has struggled to move forward since leaving The Banner Project - a band she headlined with her brothers Mitchell and Johnny. After a 10-year hiatus that deeply damaged Desiree and Mitchell’s relationship, the siblings reunite in their hometown to take care of their mother, Rosalind, who has suffered a heart attack. Rosalind, however, has ulterior motives for bringing her children together: she hopes that a Fourth of July concert of The Banner Project will save their hometown from bankruptcy. But in order for The Banner Project to help their beloved hometown recover from hard financial times, they must first put their family feud aside and find harmony both on and offstage. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Don McBrearty Hallmark Channel (Bomb Girls) Bell Media

STARRING Brooke White (Change of Plans) Christian Campbell (Big Love) Michael Barbuto (An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving) Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)

27 AN OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES In 1870, just days before Christmas, Isabella and Tilly pay a visit to Ireland, hoping Isabella’s long-ago suitor, the Earl of Shannon, can assist Tilly in getting her writing published. But their mission turns sour when the Earl’s greedy wife secretly hatches a plan to wed her son to Tilly in order to dip into her family’s wealth, even though Tilly is already engaged. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Don McBrearty (King) Hallmark

STARRING (Nip/Tuck) Catherine Steadman () Kristopher Turner (The L.A. Complex)

DESPERATELY SEEKING SANTA HOLIDAY DRAMA 2 hrs.

An ambitious executive running promotions at a failing Boston mall comes up with a genius promotional gimmick TV MOVIES to save her workplace and position herself for advancement: hold a “Hunky Santa” contest to replace the old Mall Santa. David, a local man trying to save his family’s pizzeria, ultimately wins the contest and sparks fly between him and Jennifer. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Craig Pryce (Family Biz) ABC Family

STARRING (Ted) (2 Broke Girls) Paula Brancati (Being Erica)

28 GIRL’S BEST FRIEND ROMANTIC COMEDY 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Mary is a jaded, antisocial music critic who pops her earphones in whenever she’s threatened with actual human communication. Then she gets stuck on a road trip with her mother’s Jack Russell terrier, Binky. For Mary, taking care of a hungry, slobbery creature is a nightmare. But as she drives across America with Binky, she begins to soften and eventually manages to love the dog and finds room in her heart for her family and her patient boyfriend. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Peter Svatek (The Tournament) Lifetime Super Channel STARRING W Network Janeane Garofalo (Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion) Kris Holden-Ried (The Tudors)

AN ACCIDENTAL FRIENDSHIP DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Officer Tami Baumann is a beautiful but tough veteran of the police force, stationed in one of the roughest precincts. She has only one thing in common with the homeless Yvonne, played by : they both love dogs. The unlikely friendship between the homeless woman and cop finally helps bring romance into the life of the closed-off police officer and gives Yvonne the strength to get off the streets.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Don McBrearty Corus (Murdoch Mysteries) Global Hallmark STARRING Chandra Wilson AWARDS (Grey’s Anatomy) Nominated for an Emmy Ben Vereen () Award – Outstanding Lead Kathleen Munroe Actress in a Mini-series or Movie (Durham County)

29 THE MANY TRIALS OF ONE JANE DOE CRIME/DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES This film is the true story of an extraordinary woman, who, after a traumatizing rape refuses to remain a victim. Jane Doe discovers that she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist that the police knew was operating in the two- block area where she lived but they did not issue a public warning. Outraged, she sues the police for negligence in a criminal investigation and her court battle makes legal history. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Jerry Ciccoritti (Trudeau) CBC Lifetime STARRING (The Bridge) AWARDS Steven Mackintosh Won 4 Gemini Awards (Criminal Justice) including Best Actress Gary Lewis and Best Director. (Gangs of New York) Won DGC Craft Award for Picture Editing.

DEADLY FRIENDS DRAMA/THRILLER 2 hrs. Sometimes love kills - as in this surreal love story, based on real people and true events. This chilling drama TV MOVIES explores the tragic murder of Nancy Eaton, the beautiful 23-year-old Eaton department store heiress by her 17-year-old friend from childhood. Narrated from beyond the grave, this unusual film offers an examination of fate versus free will and questions the nature of evil. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Jerry Ciccoritti (Trudeau) Won Gemini Award for Best Actor. Nominated STARRING for 2 Gemini Awards Jessica Paré (Mad Men) () Alice Krige (Deadwood)

30 THE INVESTIGATION CRIME/DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES This gripping, true-life drama tells the story of the bungled and obstructed manhunt for Canada’s most notorious serial killer. In 1981 two young RCMP officers, each separately investigating a rape and a murder, captured Clifford Olson. Because of legal red tape and jurisdictional chaos, the suspect was released and continued his rampage until he was finally arrested and imprisoned - several murders later. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Anne Wheeler CBC (This is Wonderland) BBC

STARRING AWARDS Nicolas Lea (X-Files) Won WGC Reece Dinsdale Award for Writer, (Romance and Rejection) Bruce M. Smith. () Nominated for 2 Gemini Awards.

SAVAGE MESSIAH DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Based on a true story of brainwashing and manipulation, this powerful, psychological film follows a social worker whose sheer determination finally brings a diabolical cult leader to justice. Roch Thériault presides over a bizarre commune that includes his eight wives and 26 children. On the surface everything seems serene but, as the social worker investigates, she discovers a dead child and shocking mental and physical abuse. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Mario Azzopardi Showcase (Degrassi: The Next Generation) TMN Super Channel STARRING Showtime (Australia) Polly Walker (Rome) Séries+ (Babin) Isabelle Blais (The High Cost of Living) (Les Boys)

AWARDS Won 3 for: Best Actor, Luc Picard, Screenwriter Sharon Riis, and Best Supporting Actress Pascale Montpetit. 30 Nominated for DGC Award for Best Direction. 31 AN OLD FASHIONED THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Inspired by a Louisa May Alcott short story, An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving is a tale about three generations of women in 1860’s America, the differences that separate them, and how during a tragic holiday, they learn to overcome those differences to become a family again.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Graeme Campbell Hallmark (Degrassi: The Next Generation) Super Channel

STARRING AWARDS Jacqueline Bisset () Nominated for Satellite Hélène Joy (Durham County) Award - Best Actress in () a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television Jacqueline Bisset.

RECIPE FOR A PERFECT CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES In this romantic culinary comedy, 24-year-old JJ Jenner is offered her dream job as a food critic at a trendy New York magazine. She can’t believe her luck - that is, until her flamboyant and over-bearing mother comes to visit at Christmas and puts JJ’s career in jeopardy.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Sheldon Larry (The First Circle) Global Lifetime STARRING Christine Baranski (Mamma Mia) Carly Pope (24) Bobby Cannavale (The Station Agent)

32 TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE ROMANCE DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES While trying to balance a relationship with the daughter she gave up 18 years ago and her blossoming relationship with her coworker King Danville, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder receives a letter from a loyal reader, Eve Miller, challenging her latest column. Intrigued by Eve’s story of lost love and regret, Peyton begins to question her own life and the risk one must take to fall in love again.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Douglas Barr (The Note) Hallmark W Network STARRING Genie Francis (General Hospital) Ted McGinley (Hope and Faith) John Bregar (Jack of Diamonds)

NOTES FROM THE HEART HEALER DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES In the third installment of the highly popular movie series The Note, Author Peyton MacGruder forms an unlikely friendship with a single, young who abandons her baby on Peyton’s doorstep.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Doug Barr (The Note) Hallmark

STARRING Genie Francis (General Hospital) Ted McGinley (Hope and Faith)

33 UNSTABLE THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES The daughter of a wealthy family and newly graduated from college, Megan Walker is haunted by a traumatic incident in her past. Her luck starts to change when she falls in love with the charming, down-to-earth Woody. But soon after marriage, old fears and anxieties start to surface and Megan becomes more suspicious of her new husband’s motives. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Don McBrearty Lifetime (Murdoch Mysteries) ITV Global Allarco STARRING W Network Shiri Appleby (Girls) David Alpay (The Tudors) (Boston Public) (The Kennedys)

I ME WED ROMANTIC COMEDY 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Isabel Darden is a successful, attractive 30-something professional, tired of everybody asking her “when are you going to get married?” She decides to put an end to the speculation once and for all, and marry the person she loves best in the world—herself! But as wedding plans escalate, she meets and falls in love with her contractor’s son, Colin, which complicates her plans. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Craig Pryce (Life with Derek) Global Lifetime STARRING TF1 Erica Durance (Smallville) Paul Popowich (Twice in a Lifetime) Cara Pifko (This is Wonderland)

34 THE NIGHT BEFORE THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS TV MOVIES HOLIDAY COMEDY 2 hrs. A clerical error leads Santa to take off for his annual Christmas Eve run one night early and he crashes onto the roof of a house. When the Fox family finds a confused Santa in the backyard, they band together to help him get back on track, find his magical bag of toys and save Christmas.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS James Orr Corus (Christmas in Wonderland) Hallmark

STARRING Jennifer Beals (Flashdance) (Traders) Rebecca Williams (Reviving Ophelia)

THE WILD GIRL DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES A Chicago journalist heads to to join the 1932 Great Apache Expedition through Northwestern as a photographer. He finds a wild Apache girl clinging to life in the wilderness. He sets off across the mountains to return the young girl to her people and trade her life for a missing boy. But his good deed puts his life in jeopardy.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Don McBrearty Corus (Murdoch Mysteries) Hallmark

STARRING (Desperate Housewives) Andrew Gillies (Flash of Genius)

35 THE CHRISTMAS CHOIR HOLIDAY DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Inspired by a true story, The Christmas Choir is about a workaholic accountant, played by Jason Gedrick, who becomes inspired to start a choir with a group of homeless men to help them out at Christmas time. Winner of America’s prestigious Epiphany Prize for the Most Inspiring TV Movie of 2008, The Christmas Choir shows the inspiring accomplishments of unexpected men changing their lives and making a difference.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Peter Svatek Hallmark (The Tournament) Global

STARRING AWARDS Jason Gedrick Epiphany Prize 2009. (Desperate Housewives) Rhea Perlman (Cheers) Marianne Farley (Les Invincibles)

SILENT NIGHT DRAMA 2 hrs. A gripping drama based on a true story that took place on Christmas Eve, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. TV MOVIES A remarkable schoolteacher, Elisabeth Vincken, and her 12-year-old-son, Fritz, give refuge and dinner to three American GI’s and a band of German soldiers at her small cabin in the Ardennes Forest of Germany. Frau Vincken insists that the soldiers leave their weapons outside and for the sake of the child, celebrate the true spirit of Christmas for one brief evening. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Rodney Gibbons Global (The Hound of Baskervilles) Hallmark W Network

STARRING AWARDS () Nominated for Roman Orzari (Durham County) 4 Gemini Awards Al Goulem (The Tournament) including Best Direction.

36 JACK OF DIAMONDS DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES In this dramatic caper, an elegant, master jewel thief joins forces with a young tennis pro to steal jewellery from the rich in order to punish a corrupt insurance company. They work as modern day Robin Hoods to give back to those cheated by the company.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Hervé Renoh Showcase (Requiem) ZDF France 2 STARRING Jean-Yves Berteloot AWARDS (The Da Vinci Code) Nominated for 1 John Bregar Gemini Award (Family Biz)

CLASS WARFARE DRAMA/THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Four high school seniors are spending the weekend at a remote cabin when Richard announces that he’s won the lottery. Kristen, whose world has just been turned upside down by her father’s company’s bankruptcy, is determined to claim the prize. She tries seducing Richard, but when that fails, she concocts a murder plan to be executed by her boyfriend Jason.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Richard Shepard (Oxygen) TMN Super Channel STARRING USA Network Lindsey J McKeon (Boy Meets World) Wade Carpenter (7th Heaven) Robin Dunn (Dawson’s Creek)

36 37 PLAIN TRUTH CRIME/MYSTERY/DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES In this taut thriller, a shocking murder shatters the picturesque calm of Pennsylvania’s Amish country when a newborn’s body is found on a farm. No one seems to know how the baby died. When young, unmarried Katie Fitch is accused of the crime, Ellie, a big-city lawyer, played by Mariska Hargitay, who is at the top of her game, is brought in to defend her. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Paul Shapiro CTV (Smallville) Lifetime W Network STARRING Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order) AWARDS Alison Pill Won DGC Award (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) for Sound Editing. Alec McClure (Lars and the Real Girl) Nominated for 3 DGC Awards.

TOO YOUNG TO MARRY DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES High school sweethearts Max Doyle, 18, and Jessica Carpenter, 17, are a modern day Romeo and Juliet. They decide to get married despite everyone telling them that they are too young and it will never work. But when the newlyweds move in together and face the realities of married life, things become complicated. Now Jessica and Max must decide if they are really meant to be together. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Michel Poulette (Tipping Point) Lifetime Super Channel STARRING W Network Nina Dobrev () Dillon Casey (The Vampire Diaries) Polly Draper (Thirty-something)

38 CARNY THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES The Jersey Devil, half animal/half devil creature, escapes from a traveling carnival and brutally attacks the citizens of a small town. As the winged monster rampages around the countryside, killing and eating humans, it is up to the town’s sheriff, played by , to fight the local preacher, the carnival owner, and his own inner fears to bring the horrifying creature down. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Sheldon Wilson (Kaw) Syfy Super Channel STARRING Space Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba) Alan C. Perterson (Cra$h & Burn) Vlasta Vrana (The Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice)

SAND SERPENTS SCI-FI/ACTION 2 hrs. TV MOVIES An infantry squad of eight American soldiers trapped in the Afghanistan desert must battle the ruthless Taliban enemy and a horde of giant, carnivorous, wormlike serpents awakened from under the earth.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Jeff Renfroe (Being Human) Syfy Super Channel STARRING Space Jason Gedrick (Desperate Housewives) Tamara Hope (Shall We Dance) (Played)

38 39 SCI-FI/HORROR 2 hrs. For centuries, the gargoyle has been buried so deep beneath sacred ground that only a select few even know it TV MOVIES exists. But when it is unleashed from a crypt beneath a condemned church in , and goes on a killing , an American professor played by Eric Balfour, a priest, an ambitious TV reporter and her cameraman, come together to hunt and destroy the beast before it reproduces. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Bill Corcoran (Falcon Beach) Syfy Super Channel STARRING Space Eric Balfour (24) (Under Siege) Caroline Néron (Traders)

HIGH PLAINS INVADERS SCI-FI/THRILLER 2 hrs. James Marsters stars as Sam Phoenix, an Old West train robber who escapes his public hanging when a TV MOVIES swarm of monstrous alien bugs land in town in search of uranium deposits found under ground. Sam, his former sweetheart, a lady bounty hunter and an eccentric mine owner, must fight for their lives and make their way out of town as a giant alien space craft hovers menacingly overhead. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS K.T. Donaldson (Judging Amy) Syfy Super Channel STARRING Space James Marsters (P.S. I Love you) Cindy Sampson (The Last Kiss) Sebastian Knapp (Silent Witness)

40 HELLHOUNDS SCI-FI/THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES An ancient greek warrior travels to hell and back for the woman he loves in this Sci-Fi adventure film. Set in 500 B.C., Hellhounds tells the tale of Kleitos, who, with his companions, fights valiantly against the vicious hellhounds of the Underworld in order to rescue his bride, the Princess Demetria, from the torments of hell and bring her back to life.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Rick Schroder (24) Syfy Super Channel STARRING Space Scott Elrod (True Blood) Adam Butcher (Life with Derek) Amanda Brooks (My Best Friend’s Girl)

BLACK SWARM SCI-FI/THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES When an idyllic town suffers from a spate of deadly wasp attacks, the town’s pest control expert and his estranged lover must unravel the mystery of why these wasps have become murderous killers, and why people in the town are turning into killer drone zombies. The heroes have to find a way to stop these insect killers and whoever it was that created them before they become the next victims.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Syfy (Turbo: A Power Rangers Super Channel Movie) Space

STARRING AWARDS Platinum Award for (Freddie Vs. Jason) Best Director – Sebastien Roberts International Film (Encounter with Danger) Festival. Sarah Allen (Being Human)

40 41 SCI-FI/THRILLER 2 hrs. This Sci-Fi thriller is an eerie tale of magic and revenge set in a small town whose nearby swamp is the scene TV MOVIES of a series of gristly murders. What lurks inside the mud? Veteran Oscar-nominated actor Bruce Dern stars as Howard Blaime, the town’s ex-sheriff and accused murderer. To clear his name, he must prove that the Swamp Devil really exists and is responsible for the killings. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS David Winning (Andromeda) Syfy Super Channel STARRING Space Bruce Dern (Big Love) Cindy Sampson AWARDS (Durham County) Gold World Medal for Nicolas Wright Best Direction – (Accidentally on Purpose) New York Festivals Television Programming Awards.

INFECTED SCI-FI/THRILLER 2 hrs. Ben Mosher is an unlikely hero with a dead-end job and a broken heart. Lisa Wallace is an ambitious reporter TV MOVIES and Ben’s estranged lover. But when Ben and Lisa find themselves in the middle of an alien conspiracy where humans are being poisoned and impregnated with alien larvae, the pair must put their past behind them and work together to save mankind. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Adam Weissman () Syfy Super Channel STARRING Space Gil Bellows (Ally McBeal) Maxim Roy (19-2) Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet)

42 THE WATCH THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES In this paranormal thriller, Cassie, a university student, had been kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcize her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once she’s alone, strange things start happening. Or is she just paranoid? Cassie is terrified that her past is coming back to haunt her. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Jim Donovan (Pure) Lifetime Super Channel STARRING W Network Clea DuVall (Heroes) Elizabeth Whitmere (Beyond Borders) James A. Woods (Being Human)

DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE THRILLER 2 hrs.

TV MOVIES In this stylish, contemporary remake of the classic mystery tale, Dougray Scott takes on the dual role of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The transformation from the upstanding physician, Dr. Jekyll, to evil murderer, Mr. Hyde, is more internal than external in this production, and is accomplished not with prosthetics and special-effects- make-up, but through Scott’s tremendous acting. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Paolo Barzman (The Phantom) Global Lifetime STARRING W Network Dougray Scott (Desperate Housewives) Tom Skerrit (Top Gun) Krista Bridges (Durham County)

43 HOUSE SITTER CRIME/THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Elise, played by , is a struggling artist whose life is put in jeopardy when she takes a job as a house sitter looking after a rich man’s country villa, owned by antique coin collector Frank. The house turns out not to be the tranquil countryside estate it appears, as the story unravels that a gruesome murder took place there years before. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Chris Leitch (CSI) CityTV Oxygen STARRING W Network Tori Spelling (Beverly Hills 90210) Dean McDermott (The Tournament) Jonathan Higgins (True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet)

MIND OVER MURDER DRAMA/THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Holly Winters, played by Tori Spelling, awakens from a car accident to discover she can now hear people’s thoughts. She uses her new ability to solve a high profile murder but she becomes the target of a hit man who seems to have been hired by a prominent U.S. Senator.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Chris Leitch (CSI) CTV Lifetime STARRING W Network Tori Spelling (Beverly Hills 90210) Dean McDermott (Missing) Carl Marotte (Lance et Compte)

44 PROOF OF LIES DRAMA/THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Christine Hartley is a dedicated scientist on the verge of a huge discovery - the genetic cause of addictive behavior. When her life is threatened by a vicious attacker in the lab, she begins to suspect those around her of foul play - motivated by money and greed. The plot twists and turns until the very last frame.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Peter Svatek (Girl’s Best Friend) Lifetime CityTV STARRING W Network Amanda Detmer (Saving Silverman) Jonathan Scarfe (Raising the Bar) Anthony Lemke (The Phantom)

TIPPING POINT MYSTERY/THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Nina Patterson, a beautiful 25-year-old medical student, appears to be on the road to recovery, after a traumatic experience with schizophrenia. When she suspects that a murder took place in the hospital where she works part-time and sets out to prove it, no one believes her because of her history of mental illness.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Michel Poulette CityTV (Too Young to Marry) Lifetime W Network STARRING Katheryn Winnick (Student Bodies) Nicolas Wright (Accidentally on Purpose) Chuck Shamata (One Week)

44 45 THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR MYSTERY/THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES This edge-of-your-seat thriller follows a young married couple who encounter unexplainable and deadly occurrences emanating from the house next door. The beautiful, new, architect-designed home brings out the worst in all those that enter it, by amplifying their fears and frailties until it leads to disgrace, an accident and misfortunes…even death. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Jeff Woolnough Lifetime () Global W Network STARRING Lara Flynn Boyle () Colin Ferguson (Because I Said So) Noam Jenkins (Rookie Blue)

MURDER IN CRIME/DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES A true story set in the ultra-rich Hamptons. Beautiful, but mentally unstable Generosa Rand, thinks she’s met the man of her dreams, the multi-millionaire Ted Ammon. But her growing insecurity and paranoia wreak havoc on their marriage. When Ted is found murdered in his Hamptons mansion, suspicion falls on Generosa and her lover, Danny. Though there appears to be no evidence to indict either one of them. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Jerry Ciccoritti (Bomb Girls) CTV Lifetime STARRING W Network Poppy Montgomery (Without a Trace) AWARDS David Sutcliffe () Lifetime Shawn Christian (Summerland) Television’s highest rated original movie in 2005.

46 THE CASE OF THE WHITECHAPEL VAMPIRE MYSTERY 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Sherlock Holmes ventures into the realm of demons in this chilling thriller. Holmes is renowned for his extraordinary deductive abilities but the domain of vampires is not his natural territory. For the first time, Holmes begins to doubt his own mental powers.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Rodney Gibbons (Little Men) Global Hallmark STARRING Matt Fewer (Watchmen) AWARDS () Nominated for CSC Maria Bertrand and ASC for Best (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) Cinematography.

THE SIGN OF FOUR MYSTERY 2 hrs. TV MOVIES In this exotic and colorful tale of greed, betrayal and revenge, the world’s most famous detective duo is on the hunt again; this time for an assassin that kills his victims with poisoned darts. Based on the novella by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the story is populated by characters that are bizarre, complex and unforgettable.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Rodney Gibbons (Little Men) CTV Hallmark STARRING Matt Fewer (Watchmen) Kenneth Welsh (Grey Gardens) Sophie Lorain (Mambo Italiano)

46 47 ROYAL SCANDAL MYSTERY 2 hrs. TV MOVIES A femme fatale, secret agents, espionage and top secret submarine plans are the ingredients of this Sherlock Holmes mystery in which, for the first time, Holmes’ passion may be his undoing. Holmes faces an old enemy in the beautiful form of Irene Adler. Commissioned by the Prince of Germany to recover a compromising photograph with Irene, Holmes is swept into a world of political intrigue and scandal. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Rodney Gibbons (Little Men) CTV Lifetime STARRING Matt Fewer AWARDS (Watchmen) Nominated for Gemini Kenneth Welsh Award for Best Costume (Grey Gardens) Design. Nominated for Liliana Komorowska CSC for Best (Joan of Arc) Cinematography.

THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES MYSTERY 2 hrs. In this eerie mystery, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a fatal adventure of superstition and TV MOVIES revenge on the desolate moors of England when they investigate the death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Locals believe that a huge dog from hell killed him. Holmes and Watson search for clues and come up with a number of possible killers and explanations. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Rodney Gibbons (Little Men) CTV Hallmark STARRING Matt Fewer AWARDS (Watchmen) Won 1 Gemini Award for Kenneth Welsh Best Costume Design. (Grey Gardens) Jason London (Saving Grace)

48 THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW FAMILY MYSTERY/DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Ichabod Crane arrives in Sleepy Hollow and becomes the new schoolmaster. He is attracted to Katrina Van Tassel, daughter of the area’s wealthiest farmer, and blissfully fantasizes about how she and her money can be his. Her suitor Brom Bones, the village blacksmith, wants to scare him away and dresses up as the legendary Headless Horseman. During the prank, the real ghost appears and drives Ichabod off.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Pierre Gang Hallmark (More Tales of the City) AWARDS STARRING Nominated for 3 Brent Carver Gemini Awards. (Kiss of the Spider Woman) Nominated for CSC Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight) Award for Best Vlasta Vrana (The Last Templar) Cinematography.

THE STORK DERBY DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES This is a dramatic account of one of the most sensational, true stories of the Great Depression. When a wealthy bachelor dies in 1926, he leaves $1,000,000 in his will to the woman who produces the most babies in a ten-year period. The “Great Toronto Stork Derby,” ignites a media frenzy as journalists come from around the world to pity, sensationalize or champion the mothers who vie for the prize. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Mario Azzopardi CBC (: Atlantis) Lifetime

STARRING AWARDS Nominated for a (Anne of Green Gables) Gemini Award for Pascale Montpetit Best Supporting (Mon Meilleur Ennemi) Actress. Nominated Ellen David (Barney’s Version) for 2 Golden Reel Awards.

48 49 BLACK WIDOWER CRIME/DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Based on a true story, this drama is a psychological cat-and-mouse game where the outcome is held in suspense until the very last moment. Nancy Westveld, played by Kelly McGillis, is a brilliant assistant district attorney who tracks down three-time wife killer Ed Amos. Bringing him to long-delayed justice is a huge challenge for Nancy since Ed is a charming and cunning sociopath who has been getting away with murder for years. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Chris Leitch (CSI) CTV Lifetime STARRING Kelly McGillis (Top Gun) David Lipper (Trump Unauthorized) Francis X. McCarthy (NYPD Blue)

CHASING CAIN: FACE CRIME/DRAMA 2 hrs. Homicide detectives Kazlowski and McGoogan have a knack for solving crimes, but this one - the knifing of a TV MOVIES beautiful and popular young black woman - has them stumped. Set in the heart of the Caribbean community in Toronto, the film gives a gritty and realistic look at police work as well as a compelling portrait of police officers determined to seek justice in a racially explosive environment. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Jerry Ciccoritti (Played) CBC Showcase STARRING (Bomb Girls) AWARDS Watson (La Femme Nikita) Nominated for 5 Karen LeBlanc (Defying Gravity) Gemini Awards including Best TV Movie.

50 THE PARTY NEVER STOPS DRAMA 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Eighteen-year-old track star Jessie is finally ready to spread her wings as she moves mother April and younger sister Sadie to begin her first year of college. At school, she instantly hits it off with her new roommate, and together, they discover the freedom of college life and its temptations. Innocent “partying” gets out of control and they find themselves sucked into the binge drinking lifestyle. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS David Wu (The Associates) Global Lifetime STARRING W Network Sara Paxton (Last House on the Left) Nancy Travis (Becker) Chelsea Hobbs (Make It or Break It)

RIVALS DRAMA/ THRILLER 2 hrs. TV MOVIES Friendship turns to obsession - then to cold-blooded murder - in this shocking true story of teenage rivalry that veers out-of-control. Michelle, the leader of the “in-crowd” in school, uses her sexy looks to get whatever she wants and to keep her brawny boyfriend Butch at her beck and call. When awkward, but beautiful, new student Laurie arrives, Michelle sees her as an arch rival and decides to eliminate her. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Norma Bailey (Falcon Beach) TMN TQS STARRING CityTV Mary-Margaret Humes USA Network (Dawson’s Creek) Movie Central Jennifer Finnigan W Network (The Bold and the Beautiful) Rel Hunter (Macbeth)

50 51 FACTUAL FACTUAL FACTUAL JFK: THE SMOKING GUN DOCU-DRAMA 1 hr. or 2 hrs. FACTUAL FACTUAL JFK: The Smoking Gun looks at the assassination of John F. Kennedy through the forensic analysis conducted by Colin McLaren, a foremost Australian homicide detective, who, by using modern technology to examine every piece of ballistic detail and eye-witness testimony – solves the greatest cold case mystery of all time and concludes that all evidence points to a 2nd shooter. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Malcolm McDonald (The Extraordinary Tale of William Buckley) Discovery Canada ReelzChannel USA STARRING SBS Australia Colin McLaren (Infiltration) Channel 5 (UK) Bonar Menninger (Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK) Colleen Donahue

53 SKY JUMPERS DOCUMENTARY 1 hr. or 1 1/2 hrs. FACTUAL Over the Edge is a character-driven, feature documentary that takes viewers deep into the dangerous world of top-tier skydiving, where split-second decisions make the difference between life and death. With spectacular photography and heart-stopping moments, it is immersive, real time story-telling.

DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Hedy Korbee (Recipe to Riches) History Channel STARRING Jonathan Tagle Shannon Pilcher JC Colclasure Jay Moledzki Ian bobo

54 MARCH TO THE TOP DOCUMENTARY 1 hr. or 1 1/2 hrs. FACTUAL FACTUAL Twelve ill and injured soldiers from the Canadian forces journey half way around the world to Nepal where in the shadow of the world’s highest peak Mount Everest, they are pushed to their limits as they attempt to climb the 20,305 ft. giant known as Island Peak. Their mission is to raise awareness and funds for other battle-injured soldiers with the hope that the expedition will help heal their emotional, mental and physical wounds. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS AWARDS Ben Webster (Everest: Ultimate Survival) Documentary 1 Canadian Screen Richard Vadentillaart CBC Award nomination (Kilimanjaro: The Meaning of The Mountain)

54 55 MARCH TO THE POLE DOCUMENTARY 1 x 1 hr. FACTUAL As part of their recovery from life-altering injuries, 12 wounded Canadian Afghanistan veterans attempt to reach Canada’s Magnetic North Pole on cross-country skis across 140 km of harsh, unforgiving terrain. March to the Pole is an extraordinary documentary of an expedition and of hardship and healing. Characteristics which drove these men and women to serve their country - commitment, empathy and resilience - are the same traits they must call upon to re-build their bodies and souls. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Richard Vandentillaart History Channel (Kilimanjaro: The Meaning of the Mountain) Russell Gienapp (Mayday: Air Disasters)

56 HUMAN NATURE DOCUMENTARY 4 x 1 hr. FACTUAL FACTUAL Human Nature explores the puzzling world of human response: crying, laughing, pain and pleasure. By combining intimate stories of individuals with insights from researchers and scientists, the series unravels the mysteries of human reactions, giving viewers a deeper understanding of themselves and others. DIRECTED BY Peter Svatek (The Christmas Choir) NETWORKS Discovery Health Canada Life Network TFO Knowledge SCN

56 57 FEATURE FILMS THE DEAL FEATURE FILMS COMEDY 100 minutes A long time Hollywood producer, on the verge of suicide, cons a major studio to finance a $100 million dollar film based on a non-existent script, starring a black action star who has converted to Judaism, to be shot in . When the leading man gets kidnapped and the picture gets shut down, the producer flees to Prague with a beautiful Hollywood studio executive and uses the studio’s blocked funds to make a completely different picture. DIRECTED BY Steven Schachter (The Wool Cap) STARRING William H. Macy (Fargo) (Sleepless In Seattle) LL Cool J (Charlie’s Angels) (Parenthood) Elliott Gould (Ocean’s Thirteen)

59 ROCKSTEADY: THE ROOTS OF REGGAE DOCUMENTARY 2 hrs. FEATURE FILMS The documentary film Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae is a musical journey to Jamaica’s Golden Age of music, Rocksteady. The film features the music and stories of the legendary singers and musicians ofthe Rocksteady era. They come together after 40 years to record an album of Rocksteady hits, to perform together again at an All-Stars reunion concert in Kingston, Jamaica, and to tell their story. DIRECTED BY NETWORKS Stascha Bader Allarco HBO - Latin America STARRING Canal + Stranger Cole Ceska Televize Czech Hopeton Lewis Red Bull Media House Germany Judy Mowatt Rita Marley Marcia Griffith Only subtitled in French - no dub Ken Boothe Leroy Sibbles

60 INDEX Company Profile 1 40 Holidaze 26 Miniseries 2 Hound of the Baskervilles, The 48 House Next Door, The 46 Answered By Fire 8 House Sitter 44 Ben Hur 4 I Me Wed 34 Cat. 8 6 Infected 42 Exploding Sun 6 Investigation, The 31 Flood 9 Jack of Diamonds 37 Human Trafficking 9 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The 49 Impact 8 Many Trials of One Jane Doe, The 30 Kennedys, The 3 Mind Over Murder 44 Killer Wave 10 Murder in the Hamptons 46 Last Templar, The 7 Night Before the Night Before Christmas, The 35 Phantom, The 7 Notes from the Heart Healer 33 Pillars of the Earth, The 5 Old Fashioned Christmas, An 28 Superstorm 10 Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, An 32 Series 11 Party Never Stops, The 51 Plain Truth 38 Being Human 15 Proof of Lies 45 Bomb Girls 14 Recipe for a Perfect Christmas 32 Bounty Hunters 16 Reviving Ophelia 25 Bullet in the Face 17 Rise of the Gargoyles 40 Crusoe 22 Rivals 51 Durham County 18 Royal Scandal 48 Family Biz 22 39 Gawsayn 19 Savage Messiah 31 Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog, The 20 Sign of Four, The 47 Played 13 Silent Night 36 Signed, Sealed, Delivered 12 Stork Derby, The 49 Tales From the Neverending Story 20 Swamp Devil 42 Twice in a Lifetime 21 Taking a Chance on Love 33 Wonderland, This is 21 Tipping Point 45 Too Young to Marry 38 TV Movies 22 Unstable 34

A Banner 4th of July 27 Watch, The 43 Accidental Friendship, An 29 Wild Girl, The 35 41 Zapped 24 Black Widower 50 Factual 52 Carny 39 Case of the Whitechapel Vampire, The 47 Human Nature 57 Chasing Cain: Face 50 JFK: The Smoking Gun 53 Christmas Choir, The 36 March to the Pole 56 Christmas with Tucker 27 March to the Top 55 Class Warfare 37 Sky Jumpers 54 Cyberbully 26

Deadly Friends 30 Feature Films 56 Desperately Seeking Santa 28 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 43 Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae 60 Girl’s Best Friend 29 The Deal 59 60 Hellhounds 41 61 CONTACT INFORMATION

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