The Ontario Film Development Corporation’s new Documentary Calling Card program has greenlit its first two documentary projects, which will go into production in the next three months.

The two chosen projects are: producer Sarah Jane Flynn’s and director Shelley Mansell’s I Spy, and producer Boja Vasic’s and director Vanessa Laufer’s Blind Spot.

Both documentaries will air on tvontario on its flagship documentary strand, The View from Here.

In 2000/01, the Documentary Calling Card program will commit to a total of four teams of emerging Ontario producers and directors. Each calling card doc will run a half-hour.

The industry jury that adjudicated the first round of the doc program included Rudy Buttignol, tvo’s creative head of documentaries and drama; Anne Pick, president of Reel to Reel Productions; and Tom Perlmutter, executive producer and partner of Primitive Entertainment Productions.

The three latest short dramatic films, selected to go to camera this fall are: A Man’s Life, produced by Shannon Farr and directed by Paul Quarrington; Remembrance, produced by Paula Fleck and directed by Stephanie Morgenstern; and Reunion, produced by Brent Barclay and directed by Paul Fox. These three dramas bring the total of ofdc greenlit projects to 28 since the program began in October 1997.

All five projects will go into production over the next three months. *

-www.ofdc.on.ca