For the period June 1 to Aug. 31, 1996, Telefilm Canada committed a total of $37,597,447 to 62 new Canadian television and feature film projects.

Through its Development Fund, Telefilm committed $23,407,834 to 23 English-language projects and $9,820,499 to 23 French-language projects.

Fictional works receiving $2 million or more in funding are Atlantis’ Traders ii ($3,857,673), Great North Productions’ Jake and the Kid ii ($3 million), Fogbound Films/Citadel’s Black Harbour i ($3 million), Claude Godbout’s Urgence ii ($2.5 million), Works’ North of 60 ($2.3 million), and The Arrow from producers Aaron Kim Johnston, Paul Stephens, and Mary Young Leckie ($2 million).

Those receiving less than $2 million are Forefront’s Madison iv ($1,950,000), Sovimage’s Lobby ($1,730,000), Avanti Cine Video’s Olivier ($1 million), Claudio Luca’s Les Orphelins de Duplessis ($1 million), Telefiction’s Dix Xero Sept ii ($850,000), Minds Eye Productions’ The Lost Daughter ($800,000), Communications Claude Heroux International’s Les Batisseurs d’eau ($600,000), Verseau International’s L’Incompris et un si joli bouquet ($200,000), and The Elf from producers Debra McGee and Jennice Ripley ($170,833).

Documentaries

Documentaries receiving financial support are Omni Film Productions’ Champions of the Wild ($650,000), Asterisk Productions’ Communities ($220,000), Great Eastern Cine Productions/Productions du Phare Est’s Warrior Songs ($165,053), Inform-Action Films’ Anatomie de Tarzan ($155,000), Jean-Louis Frund’s Sylva Borealis ($155,000), Trinome International’s Pignon sur rue II ($150,000), E. Motion Films’ I Wanna Be Adored ($117,969), and Les Productions Isca’s Zones de turbulence ($113,150).

Other docs receiving support are Luc Cote and Robbie Hart’s Rainmakers ($106,000), Omni’s Founding Fathers ($100,000), Bishari Film Productions’ Kim’s Story ($95,068), Ina Fichman’s Vers une terre promise ($80,000), Section 4 Productions’ Who Is Watching the Children? ($78,344), Sound Venture Productions’ Foot Notes – Classics of Ballet, Series ii ($75,000), and Janis Lundman and Maureen Judge’s Unveiled: Mother/Daughter Relationship ($68,515).

Also up for doc funding are Mediatique’s 25 ans de dramaturgie franco-ontarienne ($68,000), Productions Rose-Ricard’s Les Jeunes Batisseurs d’Afrique ($64,000), Poly-Productions’ Denise Fillatrault ($50,000), Nuttaq Media’s Rythmes dans le vent ($45,936), Productions Teleferic/ Verseau’s Science friction ($35,000), Les Productions Vic Pelletier’s Expedition Pole Sud ($32,000), Prieto-McTair Productions’ Jane-Finch Revisited ($25,000), Les Productions Cine-Plurielles Les Cheveux en quatre ($22,413), and Gerda Film Productions’ A Balkan Journey ($13,447).

Kids’ programs

Children’s programs receiving support are: Portfolio’s Groundling Marsh iv ($860,000), Breakthrough Films’ The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon ($500,000), Radical Sheep’s The Big Comfy Couch v ($350,000), Telefiction’s Pin Pon ($330,000), Productions sda’s Sur la piste ii ($300,000), and Productions Jeunesses Bouchard Morin’s Watatatow vi ($300,000).

Productions Marc Trudeau’s Box Office 11, a variety program, also received funding ($40,000).

Features

Through its Feature Film Fund, Telefilm committed $2,403,480 to four English-language films: Richard Findlay’s Twilight of the Ice Nymphs ($779,100), Craig Price’s Split Image ($381,880), Productions Jeux d’ombres’ Burnt Eden ($130,000), and Rock Demers and Jan Knoflicek’s Dancing on the Moon ($112,500).

A total of $335,000 went to two French-language projects: Les Productions du Regard’s La Boite ($235,000) and Film Stock International’s Le Ciel est a nous ($100,000).

Commercial, Regular Funds

Telefilm committed $1,544,708 through its Commercial Production Fund to Insight Productions’ Ready or Not iv ($905,000), Robert and William Vince’s Wounded ($282,500), Dark Lullabies’ The Fizz Heard ‘Round the World ($238,200), and Pixcom’s Unforgettable Romance ($119,008).

Its Regular Fund ($85,926) aided Linda Omaha’s Neighbours: Wild Horses, a Cowboy ($20,000), Transmar’s La Voix des rivieres ($15,800), Patrick Sisam’s Dinner Along the Amazon ($15,000), Hunt Hoe’s Foreign Ghosts ($15,000), Cornerstone’s The Love Charm ($12,626), and Zima Junction’s Moscow Summer ($7,500).