Terry Gilliam, Denis Villeneuve and Kari Skogland are among 10 directors who will receive financing for their English-language projects, as part of Telefilm Canada’s Feature Film Fund, the federal agency announced this week.

Gilliam is receiving $1.6 million for The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Heath Ledger’s final film following his death in January. The Canada/U.K. copro is currently shooting at Vancouver’s Bridge Studios under co-producer William Vince of Infinity Features (Capote). It is expected to wrap at the end of the month.

Villeneuve’s retelling of the 1989 shootings at Montreal’s École Polytechnique will pocket $3.1 million. Polytechnique, produced by Don Carmody, Maxime Rémillard and André Rouleau, was shot in both English and French and is currently in post-production. The film will be released next year through Remstar and Alliance Films.

Telefilm doled out the largest amount for Montreal director John Smith’s romantic drama Love and Savagery, about a Canadian poet who falls in love with an Irish woman. The feature, co-produced by Kevin Tierney (Bon Cop, Bad Cop) will receive $3.2 million in funding.

Man on the Run, director Kari Skogland’s follow up to 2007’s The Stone Angel, will receive $1.7 million. Shot in Northern Ireland, Man on the Run stars Ben Kingsley as an ordinary man who is recruited by the British police to spy on the IRA.

Other recipients include Vic Sarin’s Shine of Rainbows ($1.8 million), Deepa Mehta’s What’s Cooking? ($2.1 million) and director Simon Ennis’ You Might as Well Live, from executive producer Robert Lantos ($1.2 million) and producers Ari Lantos (Robert’s son) and Jonas Bell Pasht.

Low-budget independent features including A Flesh Offering, from director Jeremy Torrie, and Making Babies, from Alison Reid, also received funding, as did Mathieu Roy’s feature-length documentary A Short History of Progress.