EyeSteelFilm has scored not once but twice in the latest round of funding from Canwest and Hot Docs. The Montreal doc shop saw two of its projects among the nine that got the nod on Friday from the documentary funds run by the broadcaster and the documentary festival.

In its second round of selections, the Canwest-Hot Docs Documentary Funds handed out $246,000 in grants and no-interest loans to projects hailed as ‘timely, insightful and inventive’ by organizer Michaelle McLean.

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam, EyeSteel’s doc about the little-known music movement, was among the projects to get completion funding, while development cash went to Tiananmen Square 20 Years Later, a look back on the infamous Chinese massacre. Both projects are produced by Mila Aung-Thwin, of Up the Yangtze fame and current festival darling RiP: A remix manifesto.

Tiananmen will be co-directed by Yangtze‘s Yung Chang and Shui-bo Wang, who in 1998 saw her short Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square nominated for an Oscar. Taqwacore will be directed by Omar Majeed.

The other docs getting completion funding are: director Alan Zweig’s Harmless, about longtime convicts; Julian Pinder’s Nicaragua-set Land; Manners Maketh Men from Sarah Goodman, a coming-of-age tale at a private school; and Daniel New’s profile of Toronto professor Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry.

Development funding also went to: Edges of Love, a look at the ‘seven year itch’ from director Maureen Judge; Barbara Shearer’s Pedophile?, about those on both sides of the child porn battle; and Jason DaSilva’s look at his own multiple sclerosis, When I Walk.