Halifax Film, co-founded by Michael Donovan and Charles Bishop develops and produces original film and television programming. Halifax Film manages and co-ordinates all aspects of a program's life, including developing original ideas; purchasing literary rights; arranging production financing; carrying out production and post-production; and exploiting worldwide distribution rights. Halifax Film is a subsidiary of DHX Media Ltd., a leading international producer and distributor of television programming and interactive content with an emphasis on children, family and youth markets.
 
Halifax Film has recently released the feature film Shake Hands with the Devil, a co-production with Barna-Alper and Seville Productions. The company has completed production of  the the Gemini award-winning pre-school stop-motion animation series POKO III; the children's stop-motion animation series, Lunar Jim II, a co-production with Alliance Atlantis Communications and the recently launched motion capture CG animation pre-school series Bo on the GO!. Halifax Film is currently producing a number of projects including Bo on the GO! II; the recently launched CG animation pre-school series Animal Mechanicals and the live-action children's puppet series The Mighty Jungle; the upcoming kids spelling challenge series Canada's Super Speller; the primetime drama series The Guard for Canwest Global, a co-production with Brightlight Pictures; an original family drama series, SOUL for Vision TV and the multi-award winning hit comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, XVI for CBC Television.