Canada’s HighballTV Unveils $15.6M Slate Of Five Original Indie Productions As It Continues “Careful Organic Growth”
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Burgeoning Toronto-based indie streaming platform HighballTV has announced five original titles it plans to put into production in 2023, with an overall investment of $15.6M.
The new slate consists of Caden Douglas’ genre comedy Mother Father Sister Brother Frank, music documentary Working On The Radio, anthology film The God Of Frogs, Andre Rehal’s crime drama Jin And The Wild Dog and Alice Moran’s comedy film Bash. (scroll down for more details).
The company has raised the slate financing via private investors and loans with the Royal Bank Of Canada and will also tap into the regional film tax incentives. “We’re looking at being 50:50 between the two types of financing (private financiers and RBC),” said HighballTV head of production Matthew Campagna. “They really believe in us and our company with its slow, careful organic growth. “We’ve got the corporate guarantees and the tax returns to back up the fact that we can pay these loans off because we have a model that is making enough money to do so,” he added.
Campagna launched indie streamer HighballTV in 2018 with Melissa D’Agostino. The platform has a focus on indie fiction features and documentaries that have played festivals in Canada and internationally but are not easy to watch outside of the festival circuit.
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