The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has allocated a total of $4.3 million in production support to 22 projects through its Diverse Languages Program.

The program supports projects that are not in English, French, or Indigenous languages. The $4.3 million investment includes $400,000 earmarked for the Diverse Languages Program from the federal government’s two-year $40 million investment in French-language content and underrepresented creators, according to a news release. CMF announced the allocation of the first year of funding earlier this month.

Of the selected projects, eight are by TLN Studios and have received $200,000 each. They include five Italian-language documentary projects, and three in Spanish.

The Italian-language projects include L’eco dei dialetti, Il ritmo della vita: la storia di Gianluigi Bisleri, La Squadra del cuore, La strada per Kelowna, and Quattro giorni a Napoli. Tiempo del sur, Folklórica, and El mago y la pluma are the three Spanish-language projects.

ECG Productions has received $1.38 million across seven projects. They include the Tagalog-language drama Pintor ($200,000) and two children and youth genre projects, Danylo’s Adventures: From Ukraine to Canada ($200,000/Ukrainian) and The Life of Prominent Canadians ($200,000/Russian).

ECG also picked up support for three doc projects, including season three of GULAG Witnesses ($200,000/Russian), Ludmilla Chiriaeff: The Grand Dame of Quebec Ballet ($198,940/Russian) and A Nation’s Memory On the Artist’s Palette ($195,066.00/Ukrainian).

The ECG projects receiving funding also include the variety and performing arts project Tampok: Do’s and Don’ts ($187,868/Tagalog) rounds out.

Rounding out the list of productions receiving support are season three of the Tagalog-language comedy series Abroad ($200,000) from Longhope Media; Faits Divers Média’s Spanish-language drama Conception ($145,000); Japanese-language drama Akashi ($200,000) from Musubi Arts and Experimental Forest Films; RKG Entertainment’s Ukrainian-language doc Virsky: Dance of Freedom ($197,970); and season four of Big Bad Boo Studios’ Farsi-language animated series Lili & Lola ($200,000).

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