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Author of the article: Colleen Romaniuk
Publishing date: Jul 16, 2021  â¢Â 2 hours ago  â¢Â 4 minute read  â¢Â Behind the scenes on the set of Letterkenny, producers Jacob Tierney and Mark Montefiore watch as a scene is filmed in Sudbury, Ont. in this file photo. Montefiore said Friday that New Metric Media is gearing up for a Letterkenny spinoff called Shoresy which will also be filmed in Sudbury. Gino Donato
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The film and television industry in northeastern Ontario got a funding boost on Friday as the provincial government announced more than $7.3 million to support 13 projects in the region.
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Just a few days after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, Naponse reached out to Canadian film producers Jennifer Weiss of Nice Pictures Inc. and Paula Devonshire of Devonshire Productions Inc.
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“Do you know that short story I’ve been adapting? Let’s do it,” she said.
Weiss, known for her recent work on Last Letter from your Lover and Guest of Honour, said that it was around March 13 when she first reached out.
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Nina Toulouse woke up last year to news her mother, Linda Mae, had been found deceased in the (former) Ledo Hotel on Elgin Street.
“On March 22 at approximately 11:50 p.m. I was awoken to a phone call; I didn’t recognize the number at first so I pressed ignore,” Toulouse explains. “My sister, Luna, called again and I answered. Sobbing sounds: ‘Nina, the police were just here; it’s about mom. Mom is gone.’ As soon I heard those words everything in me just dropped. Nooooooo I cried out on the phone. She described to me that mom was found in her friend’s place, which was at the Ledo Hotel, but the cops couldn’t tell her what had happened as it was an open investigation.”