Vivian’s Chinese Journey Moves To Summer
Omni TV with its parent company Rogers pre-empted its own next six weeks of Omni documentary premieres, including our own film “The Invisible Red Thread”. Instead, a new American reality series “Shahs of Sunset” will hit their airwaves in April and May. It’s a reality series produced by Ryan Seacrest that follows the lives of wealthy Persians in L.A. Our commissioning editor apologetically noted that the preemptions were a commercial decision, based on reality series trumping one-off documentaries ratings and garnering higher advertising revenue.
But we will be broadcasting on Omni– just a few weeks later. Our new broadcast premiere date will be June 17th for the English version and June 24th for the Mandarin version.
The Invisible Red Thread is made possible with 100% funding from the OMNI Television Independent Producers Initiative. The $32.5 million fund is a seven-year commitment created and made available for the independent production of third-language ethnocultural programming. The fund is not only dedicated to helping Canadian independent producers tell their stories in their language of comfort, but also to make sure that these stories are accessible to other ethnocultural communities through re-versioning in different languages. This is the industry’s first, and only, major source of funding for the independent production of non-official language programming. More details on the fund are at OMNI Television’s website 
The Invisible Red Thread - The Movie 