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New Cineflix series True Crime Scene green-lit for production

June 15, 2004

Montreal, June 15, 2004: Three episodes of the new Cineflix series True Crime Scene will begin production this summer in Canada and France. The 6X1 hour series about investigations into famous crimes will be shot in Toronto, Montreal and Paris.

The series is co-produced by Cineflix and Galaxie in association with Discovery Canada, France 3, and other international partners, in collaboration with Stone City in the United Kingdom.

Unique to the genre, True Crime Scene combines the suspense of whodunit, with the visceral punch of fly on the wall realism. Each episode, beginning with a murder scene, offers an examination of clues, interviews with witnesses, and – based on theories put forward during the real investigation – scripted and dramatic re-enactments of how the crime may have unfolded. The major, final twist sees the murder recreated as it really happened, and the killer unmasked.

Murder investigations featured in the series include the ongoing investigation into the death of the wife of Dr. Sam Shepard, a story that became the basis for the television series and film The Fugitive, as well as the 1988 stabbing death of 20-year-old Lynette White in Cardiff Wales, a case that used new forensic techniques to convict the killer over a decade later; and the murder of a UK teenager in a French youth hostel, a case that used DNA to reveal the innocence of the man who falsely confessed to the crime.

A Canada-France co-production, True Crime Scene is produced with the participation of The Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit Administered by SODEC and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, as well as the Government of Ontario – the Ontario Film & Televisions Tax Credit, and the Centre National du Cinema. True Crime Scene is Executive Produced by Cineflix Productions President André Barro, Bernard Vaillot of Galaxie, and Bryn Higgins of Stone City. Ann Harbron is the Production Executive for Discovery Canada.