OTTAWA – Canadian children’s series Dino Dan has been named the winner of the 2010 Shaw Rocket Prize.
Produced by Toronto-based Sinking Ship Entertainment, the show stars Jason Spevack as Dan Henderson, a 10-year-old boy with an obsession for dinosaurs. It airs in Canada on TVO, Knowledge Network and Access, plus recently debuted in the U.S. on MTV Networks-owned Nick Jr.
Producers J.J. Johnson, Blair Powers and Matt Bishop received their $50,000 prize by from Heritage Minister James Moore at a ceremony in Ottawa earlier this week which celebrated the top five Canadian programs for kids aged 6-12. An international jury of industry experts selected the finalists, and the winner was chosen by a jury of hundreds of kids from across Canada who screened the programs on-line plus checked out the accompanying websites.
The Shaw Rocket Fund is a permanent, independently governed, not-for-profit corporation that provides equity financing for the production of Canadian children’s, youth and family programming for television. Contributors to the fund include Shaw Communications, Shaw Pay Per View and Shaw Direct; EastLink Cablesystems and Delta Cable Communications.
