Telefilm Canada has named five teams to its Comedy Lab program, putting their feature projects into a three-month mentoring and workshop process.

The joint effort with Just for Laughs starts this month, looking to bring the funny with: the workplace comedy Servitude from writer/producer Michael Sparaga and director Warren P. Sonoda; the rom-com That Burning Feeling from writer Nicolas Citton and producer/director Jason James; Ramington’s: Men of Steel from writer Sacha Pavlovic and producer Mark Montefiore; the ‘estrogen-fuelled’ western Saddlebags by writer Christine Lippa and producers Elizabeth Yake and Angela Heck; and Two of Me from writer/director Mina Shum and producer Stephen Hegyes.