Shaftesbury Films

Shaftesbury Films is a Canadian film and television production company founded by Christina Jennings in 1987 and based in Toronto, Ontario.

Television

The company's television series projects have included:
* "Life With Derek"
* "11 Cameras"
* "Dark Oracle"
* "The Jane Show"
* "ReGenesis"
* "The Atwood Stories"
* "The Listener"
* "The Shields Stories"
* "Murdoch Mysteries"

In November of 2006, the company announced a deal to adapt Vincent Lam's short story collection "Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures", the winner of the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, into a TV series for The Movie Network.

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"
* "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 Based on a true Story
* " In God's Country- Polygamy
* " Mount Pleasant
* "The Good Times Are Killing Me Based on a novel

Theatrical films have included:
* "Swann", based on the novel by Carol Shields,
* "Conquest"
* "Painted Angels"
* "Camilla"
* "Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity"

External links

* [http://www.shaftesbury.org/ Shaftesbury Films website]
* [http://www.imdb.com/company/co0014501/ Shaftesbury Films at imdb]