* Shaftesbury Films has bought the rights to the Vincent Lam novel Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, recent winner of the Giller Prize, with plans for a series on The Movie Network.

* First Independent Pictures has bought the U.S., Australia/New Zealand and South Africa rights for the Douglas Coupland-penned Everything's Gone Green from Shoreline Entertainment.

* Equinoxe Films has bought the Canadian rights to the coming-of-age comedy I'm Reed Fish, starring Jay Baruchel.

* Andrew Currie (Fido) of Anagram Pictures has signed with talent and literary agency International Creative Management.

* Seville Pictures did well with Bon Cop, Bad Cop at the American Film Market, closing sales for the cop comedy with Alphaville Filmes in Brazil, Future Films of Scandanavia, RTL Televizio in Hungary, Thailand's J-Bics and Lizard Trade in Russia, among others. Seville also presold the doc Global Metal to handlers in Japan, France, Brazil, Scandinavia and Turkey.

* Peace Arch Entertainment has bought the worldwide distribution rights to the thriller Never Forget, starring Lou Diamond Phillips.

* CBC recently closed a number of international sales including the one-hour doc High Heel Confidential, which went to Discovery Networks Europe, Discovery India and SBS in Holland, while another, Diet Confidential, went to ABC in Australia. Other deals include season three of 72 Hours: True Crime (45 x 30) to the U.K.'s Zone Media Broadcasting and Claxson in Latin America, and season two (26 x 30) of Naked Josh to Series + in France.

* OUTtv has bought seasons one and two (20 x 30) of the growing-up-gay U.K. series Sugar Rush, set to debut Nov. 19. Season three will run in 2007.