The Independent Production Fund (IPF) has selected nine projects for its 2023 Short Form Series Production Program.

The nine short-form series will receive a total of $1.8 million, as well as consultation, training and advisory services, and were narrowed down from 187 applications submitted to IPF in March. A 28-member committee selected the projects, made up of a jury of evaluators and IPF board members.

Of the nine selected projects, six are English-language series and the remaining three are French-language.

Five of the English-language projects come from Ontario, including three mystery-thrillers: Dying Seconds from the prodco Space Mop (Davin Lengyel, Brendan Halloran); Thread from Archipelago Productions (Maeve Kern, Nicholas Ewart, Jana Stackhouse, Christopher Yip); and Petra P.I. from White Wolves Studio (Faith Leleu, Chloe Campion).

The other two Ontario series are dramedies: Rent-A-Girlfriend from It’s A Secret Productions (Ariel Yang, John Tan); and Sweet as Sugar from Jane Loughman’s Monkeys & Parrots.

Rounding out the English short-form series is B.C.-based comedy Novelette is Trying from Orange Rose Productions (Giselle Miller, Nancy Kamar).

Of the three French-language series, two hail from Quebec: the comedy Ils sont parmi nous from Pixcom (Véronique Paquette-Corriveau, Charles Lafortune, Nicola Merola, Justine Philie, Jérôme Léger, Raphaël Côté); and the drama T-Rex from Inséparables films (Jérémie Boucher, Gabriel Savignac, Louis-Philippe Vachon).

The other French-language project is the dramedy Les faillites d’Astrid from Manitoba-based Ray Films (Danielle Sturk, Elena Sturk-Lussier).

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