Pictured: Barney’s Version writer Michael Konyves will pen an adaptation of After the Wedding for Pacific Northwest Pictures.

Another raft of prodcos have been accepted in the latest round of the script development program from the Harold Greenberg Fund’s English-Language Program.

Of the 142 applications submitted, 20 were selected, including a duo of projects in HGF’s story optioning program, including another Mordecai Richler tale, Solomon Gursky Was Here (screenwriter Wil Zmak) with Serendipity Point Films, as well as Dr. James Maskalyk’s autobiography Six Months in Sudan with Back Alley Film Productions.

A number of other projects in varying draft stages from treatment to final were chosen from across Canada. Among them are Richie Mehta’s time-travel story 6385 Days with Resolute Management Group, English-language adaptation of Danish film After the Wedding from Barney’s Version scribe Michael Konyves (Pacific Northwest Pictures), and Foundation Features’ Plagued with screenwriter Rachel Talalay.

Other recipients are as follows:

Treatment to First Draft:
Atomic Betty: The Movie (Skywriter Televison Inc., screenwriter Alex Galatis)
Best Life (Shaftesbury Films, screenwriters Adriana Maggs and Phyllis Ellis)
Borealis (Jonas Chernick, screenwriter Jonas Chernick)

First to Second Draft:
90 Days (Apsara Productions Inc., screenwriter Brendan Howley)
Don’t Talk to Irene (Alyson Richards Productions Inc., screenwriter Pat Mills)
Dual (Oberon Films Inc., screenwriter Simon Reynolds)
Full Throttle (Willem Wennekers, screenwriter Willem Wennekers)
Queen of Denial (Couzin Films Inc., screenwriter Natalie Tannous)
Rufus (Karma Film Inc., screenwriters David Schultz)
The Journal of Mortifying Moments (Marcon Pictures Inc., T.L. Boulton Productions Ltd. and Calder Road Productions Inc., screenwriters Jill Girling and Lori Mather-Welch)

Second to Final Draft:
A Long Way Around (Panacea Entertainment and Northern Town Films Inc., screenwriter Daniel Janke)
Anthem (Les Films Hand Picked Inc., screenwriter Richard Bell)
Frank (Darius Films Inc., screenwriters Patrick Tarr and Brad Peyton)
Mad Dog and the Weasel (Sarrazin Productions Inc., screenwriter Noel Baker)
Sunset Sunrise (Six Island Productions Inc., screenwriters Asghar Massombagi and Paul Scherzer)

Meanwhile, Shaftesbury Films’s Shane Kinnear has left the Fund’s Board of Directors after 10 years to concentrate on his work with the prodco. Jane Tattersall of Tattersall Sound & Picture has become the newest member of the board.