The Canadian Television Fund announced almost $14 million in funding to documentary and children’s programming from its Licence Fee Program fall envelope on Nov. 14, but requests exceeded available funds by more than $10 million.

Ninety-three successful applicants are to receive a total of $13.9 million. The fund received applications for a total of $24.5 million, rejecting 13 out of 25 children’s and youth programming applications and 26 out of 107 documentary applications.

In the children’s and youth programming category, the CTF received requests for a total of $15 million and has committed to less than half that amount, funding seven out of 18 English-language applications and five out of seven French-language applications, for a total LFP commitment of $6.2 million.

Sudbury’s March Entertainment, an offshoot of Toronto-based March Networks, will receive $810,000 to produce season two of Chilly Beach, a television adaptation of the popular webtoon for CBC.

Decode Entertainment’s animated series Franny’s Feet, about a girl whose magical shoes take her on far-out adventures, has been offered $938,800 for its second season, to air on Family Channel.

Catalyst Entertainment and Blue Sky Films each received over $1 million for the first 26 episodes of Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs (Teletoon) and Lunar Jim (CBC), respectively.

In the documentary category, the fund received 107 applications requesting a total of $9.5 million. Eighty-one of these applications were successful and the fund has committed a total of $7.7 million to documentary programming.

LFP documentary funding ranges from a $500,000 offer to Montreal’s Les Productions Rivard for the 2 x 60 French-language doc Voyageurs for TFO, to approximately $30,000 for Marriage Go Round from Calgary’s Joe Media Group for CBC

Fifteen French- and English-language projects will receive financing through the LFP’s $560,000 envelope reserved for POV documentaries. Nineteen English-language and 12 French-language POV docs in all will receive LFP funding, for a total commitment of $2.1 million.

-www.canadiantelevisionfund.ca