Telefilm Canada has selected eight French-language films for production support, kicking off a series of Production Program funding decisions to be announced over the coming weeks.

The eight features will receive a total of $14 million in production funding from Telefilm.

Among them is a new comedy from Ricardo Trogi (Le Guide de la famille parfaite), titled 1994-1995 (Go Films), distributed by Immina Films.

Other comedies selected for production funding are La petite et le vieux (Parallaxes), by director Patrice Sauvé and writer Sébastien Girard, distributed by TVA Films; writer-director Manon Briand’s Le chef et la douanière (Item 7), distributed by Sphere Films; and writer-director Anne Émond’s L’univers soufflé (Metafilms), also distributed by Sphere Films.

Two coproductions received support in the latest funding round as well. Fleur bleue (Colonelle films), a Canada/Luxembourg/Roumanie drama from writer-director Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, distributed by Entract Films; and Gagne ton ciel (Les Productions 23), a Canada/France drama from director Mathieu Denis, co-written by Denis and Alexandre Auger, distributed by Maison 4:3.

Rounding out the selections are historical drama Villeneuve (Christal Films), from writer-director Daniel Roby, co-written with Guillaume Lonergan, and distributed by Les Films Opale; and writer-director Émilie Rosas’s fantasy feature Le vaisseau des tempêtes (10e Ave Productions), co-directed with Nicola Lemay and distributed by Maison 4:3.

Projects selected for the Production Program are recommended by an advisory committee made of internal Telefilm representatives, and external members of the industry. The names of this year’s committee members will be published online once all funding decisions have been made, according to Telefilm.

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