Telefilm Canada helped spread some cheddar earlier this month when it announced financing for five projects through the Canada Feature Film Fund and its Ontario and Nunavut and Western offices.

Eight applications were submitted to the Ontario and Nunavut office. The three titles selected from the region are Everything’s Gone Green, Summer Babe and A Tryst With Destiny.

The Western office of Telefilm received six English-language applications at the Jan. 17 deadline. Two films, Mount Pleasant and Unnatural and Accidental, both from B.C., were chosen for funding.

Earl Hong Tai, director of the Western region, praises the films, saying, ‘These projects are indicative of the caliber of talent that is prevalent in the industry.’

The five selected films breakdown as follows:

* Everything’s Gone Green – producers, Chris Nanos and Elizabeth Yake (Radke Films/True West Films); director, Paul Fox; writer, Douglas Coupland. About a Vancouver reporter who finds love.

* Summer Babe – producers, Corey Marr and Brendon Sawatzky (Corey Marr Productions/Inferno Pictures); writer/director, Matt Bissonnette. Two childhood friends try to kill each other over a woman.

* A Tryst With Destiny – producers, Srinivas Krishna and Sherrie Johnson (Divani Films/da da Kamera pictures); writer/director, Krishna. About two lovers and their struggle to reunite during the political chaos of India’s independence.

* Mount Pleasant – producer, Kimberly Wakefield (L’Etranger Films); writer/director, Ross Weber. A potentially deadly virus is accidentally injected into a little girl.

* Unnatural and Accidental – producer, Jason James (Raven West Films); director, Carl Bessai; writer, Marie Clements. Based on a true story about a serial killer and the ‘drowning’ deaths of 10 women in Winnipeg.

All five films qualified under the regional production envelopes earmarked for English-language projects requesting less than $1 million.

The next CFFF deadline for English-language features is Oct. 3.

-www.telefilm.gc.ca