Telefilm Canada has announced funding support for eight feature-length French language documentaries via its Theatrical Documentary Program.

The eight films will split $1.65 million in production support under the program, which finances projects in production and post-production. The projects are assessed by an advisory committee of external and internal representatives which then makes recommendations to Telefilm. All eight projects are from Quebec.

Les Films du 3 mars is as distributor on three projects, namely: Les Productions des Films de l’Autre’s Dans la forêt (French, Anishinabe) by writer-director director Pascale Ferland; Les Films Camera Oscura’s Que le silence ne l’emporte pas (French, English, Bengali, Arabic and Mandarin) by writer-director Catherine Hébert; and Intercepted (Russian) by writer-director Oksana Karpovych. Intercepted is a coproduction between Montreal’s Les Films Cosmos, France’s Hutong Production and Ukraine’s MoonMan.

The other five projects are French-language films. Maison 4:3 serves as distributor on two, including La bataille de Saint-Léonard, written and directed by Félix Rose and produced by Montreal’s Picbois Productions and Mon amour: c’est pour le restant de mes jours by writer-director André-Line Beauparlant.

Rounding out the selected titles are writer-director Frédérick Pelletier’s Michel Brault, l’instinct de vue, which is produced by Corporation de développement et de production ACPAV and has the National Film Board attached as distributor; Pimiento Médias Composées, written and directed by Nadia Louis-Desmarchais, and distributed by Noble Arts; and writer-director Michel LaVeaux’s Deleau, le cinéma en liberté, a coproduction between Item 7 (Canada) and Les Films d’ici (France). The film has Sphère Films attached as distributor.

Telefilm will announce more funding decisions in the coming weeks.

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