Shaftesbury Films

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

[edit] 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

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.

[edit] 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

Theatrical films have included:

• Swann, based on the novel by Carol Shields,
• Conquest
• Painted Angels
• Camilla
• Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity

[edit] External links

• Shaftesbury Films website
• Shaftesbury Films at imdb