Precious Telefilm Canada coin has been handed out to another five English-language pictures, including $1.8 million going into writer/director Analeine Cal y Mayor’s The Boy Who Smells Like Fish, a Canada-Mexico coproduction.

Also receiving $800,000 in Telefilm investment is Laurent Cantet’s Foxfire, a Canada-France coproduction from Foxfire Productions and French partner Haut and Court SAS.

Alliance Films will release Foxfire domestically.

The Boy Who Smells Like Fish, about a boy who gives tours in the house of a legendary Spanish crooner, is produced by Rhombus Media and Redrum SA de CV in Mexico.

Alliance Films will also release Cal y Mayor’s film.

And Telefilm invested $2.6 million in Cottage Country, a family drama to directed by Peter Wellington, and based on a script by Jeremy Boxen.

Alliance Films is releasing the Whizbang Films picture, which stars Malin Akerman and Tyler Labine, and was shot this fall in the Muskokas region north of Toronto.

Elsewhere, Michael McGowan’s Still received $1.6 million from Telefilm for the Mulmur Feed Company production to be released by Mongrel Media, while Shandi Mitchell’s The Disappeared snagged $605,000 in production coin.