The Canadian Film Centre has announced three projects as part of its Telefilm Canada Feature Comedy Exchange.

The program, a CFC North South Marketplace Initiative in collaboration with Just for Laughs, is designed to provide producers and writers with creative and marketplace guidance, and financing and packaging expertise, with the goal of increasing the strength of their feature comedy projects for the international marketplace.

This year’s projects include Buzz Me, a coming-of-age comedy produced by Raj Panikkar and Chris Szarka, written by Malcolm MacRury and directed by Ken Girotti; Public Schooled, produced by Adam Folk and written by Kyle Rideout and Josh Epstein, about a socially inept home-schooled teen forced into public school; and Mini-Me, about a teenage wallflower and her gambling grandmother who become con artists to save their family home, produced by Blake Corbet and written and produced by Marly Reed.

The program participants will be paired with high-profile U.S. and Canadian comedy execs and talent, who in the past have included Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann (This is 40), Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (This is the End), Jason Reitman (Juno), John Hamburg (I Love You, Man) and former comedy chair Eugene Levy.

The program runs this week in Toronto, and then for around three days in mid-March in L.A., and participants additionally have ongoing check-ins with their mentors and the CFC. Projects that go through the program also receive support from the CFC as they go through production.

Past program projects include Jason James’ That Burning Feeling, which won best Canadian first feature at VIFF and Daniel Perlmutter’s Big News From Grand Rock, now in post-production.