Halifax Film Children's Studio

Halifax Film, co-founded by Michael Donovan and Charles Bishop develops and produces original film and television programming. Halifax Film manages and co-ordinates all aspects of a program's life, including developing original ideas; purchasing literary rights; arranging production financing; carrying out production and post-production; and exploiting worldwide distribution rights. Halifax Film is a subsidiary of DHX Media Ltd., a leading international producer and distributor of television programming and interactive content with an emphasis on children, family and youth markets. Halifax Film has completed production of the Gemini award-winning pre-school stop-motion animation series POKO III; the children’s stop-motion animation series, Lunar Jim II, a co-production with Alliance Atlantis Communications; the recently launched motion capture CG animation pre-school series Bo on the GO!; the primetime drama series The Guard for Canwest Global; the original family drama series SOUL for Vision TV, and the recently released feature film Shake Hands with the Devil, a co-production with Barna-Alper and Seville Productions. Halifax Film is currently producing a number of projects including Bo on the GO! III; the CG animation pre-school series Animal Mechanicals and the live-action children’s puppet series The Mighty Jungle; the upcoming kids spelling challenge series Canada’s Super Speller; the multi-award winning hit comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, for CBC Television and That’s So Weird!, a live-action sketch comedy series launching Fall 2009 on YTV.