Halifax Film Company is a Canadian media company. It was established by former Salter Street Films executive Michael Donovan in 2005. The company has many former employees of Salter. It produces many shows such as This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Poko and Lunar Jim. Salter Street Films was a Canadian television and movie production company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ... This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a Canadian television comedy, which airs on CBC Television. ... Poko, his pet dog Minus and his toy monkey Mr. ... Lunar Jim is a pre-school oriented stop-motion animation series conceived and produced in Canada by The Halifax Film Company and Alliance Atlantis. ...
The Company is party to a management agreement and a shareholder agreement with Media Fund, a company with the objectives of promoting and supporting job creation and economic development initiatives in the film and television industry in Nova Scotia.
Consequently, the Company's results from operations may fluctuate materially from period to period and the results of any one period are not necessarily indicative of results for future periods.
The film and television revenues are generally highest in the third and fourth fiscal quarters, driven by contracted deliveries with the primary broadcasters.
The company was founded by brothers Paul and Michael Donovan in 1983.
Paul Donovan was trained as a director at the London Film School; Michael graduated from Dalhousie University’s Law School and began as a producer of Paul’s film projects.
In 2000, a year after the Donovan brothers had taken the company public, Salter Street Films was awarded the broadcast licence for the Independent Film Channel by the CRTC.
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