The Canadian Film Centre is sending two sets of filmmakers to the Tribeca Film Festival next month, as part of an expanded effort by the festival to build bridges between execs and lesser-known filmmakers.

Shannon Masters and Jennifer Podemski, together with Larisa Andrews and Claudia Molina, will be among the filmmakers taking part in this year’s Tribeca All Access, a six-day program that sends creatives into various workshops and one-on-one meetings with potential investors, development execs, producers and agents.

This will be the first time that the five-year-old TAA program has admitted non-American filmmakers. Teams from the U.K. and Australia will also take part. In all, 37 projects will be represented.

‘This initiative helps forge relationships at the international level — resulting in both national and global audiences gaining a greater appreciation of our stories,’ said CFC exec director Slawko Klymkiw, in a release.

Masters, a writer, and her producer Podemski will take Sight Unseen, described as a coming-of-age story rooted in aboriginal culture, while Andrews and Molina (producer and director/co-writer, respectively) will have the teen lesbian vampire tale Red Velvet Girls.

Also at Tribeca, the CFC-produced short Song of Slomon will screen in the fest’s short competition program. Slomon, directed by Emmanuel Shirinian, is about an Orthodox rabbi overcome by a catchy pop tune on the Sabbath.