The funding cycle at the Canadian Television Fund has wrapped with the announcement of $15.8 million in Licence Fee Program support for documentary projects, bringing the final tally of eip and lfp commitments to $192 million for this fiscal.

Financing offers went out to 24 returning documentary series, 34 new series and 102 one-off documentaries. The lfp documentary support represents 524 hours worth of production which spans nine provinces.

Among the Toronto-based doc projects awarded funding are White Pine Pictures’ Scattering Of Seeds, Insight Productions’ 100 Years of Canadian Sports, Summerhill Entertainment’s Canadian Geographic, Kuper Productions’ Children of the Storm, Primitive Features’ Cod: A Biography, Screenlife’s Flightpath series, Breakthrough Film and Television’s For King and Empire and Little Miracles, and Barna-Alper Productions’ Frontiers of Construction.

Among the Montreal docs are Communications Claude Heroux International’s Les Biographies, Productions Coscient’s 2000 Ans de Bogues, Avanti Cine Video’s Adieu Mes Soeurs, Telefiction’s Aux Confins de l’etrange and Barbie la Venus de Vinyle, and Cineflix Productions’ Birth Stories.

Also receiving lfp commitments are A Soldier’s Voice and Disasters of The Century from Regina’s Partners In Motion, Breakaway from Halifax’s Alchemy Notion Pictures, Collection from Moncton-based Connections Productions Resources, Cruise Ship and Honeybees – Ladies of the Dance from Edmonton’s Great North Productions, God’s Red Poet from Halifax’s Envision Productions, and Hank & Jimmie from Triad Film Productions of Dartmouth, n.s.

Vancouver projects receiving funding include Insight Film and Video Productions’ A World In Celebration, Omni Film Productions’ Champions of the Wild and Doglines, and David Paperny Films’ Murder In Normandy.