The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has allocated $2.8M to 13 French-language documentary projects through its POV Program.

The program is designed to boost “one-off, point-of-view documentary production” for both English and French markets.

The projects selected for the highest amount of funding include PVP Media’s Nature Symphonique ($400,000) by Marie-Julie Dallaire; Deleau: le cinéma en liberté ($358,718), directed and written by Michel La Veaux and produced by Item 7; and Magasin Général’s Matimekosh ($350,000) by director Guillaume Sylvestre.

The list continues with Productions colorées’ Couper le cordon ($245,000); Adonis ($239,018), directed by Jérémie Battaglia and produced by Extérieur Jour; Sphere Media’s Rwanda, le devoir de mémoire de Patrick Norman ($219,658); and Ces lien que nous ne voyons pas ($200,000), directed by Kim O’Bomsawin and produced by Terre Innue.

Rounding out the selected projects are Avanti Toast’s L’homme dans le miroir ($169,000), Attraction Images’ Extirper le démon ($165,929), Righteous Pictures’ Notre ami Omar ($165,187), Casadel Films’ À l’Impossible, nous sommes tenus ($109,483), Trinome & filles’ Les gars: faut qu’on se parle! ($107,800), and Lustitia Productions’ Le poids de la minceur ($89,180).

The projects receiving funding in the English market were announced in July.

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