The Société de développement des entreprises culturelle (SODEC) has selected 21 films for funding under its development assistance program.

The projects include 12 feature-length narrative and nine documentary films, and were selected from a total of 93 submissions in this round. The program provides support for scriptwriting and prototyping for animated projects.

The narrative titles include Bijoux (Téléfiction Productions), written by Miryam Bouchard and Marie-Eve Larivière; Death Metal (Terre Innue), co-written by Geneviève Albert, Marie-Andrée Gill and Kim O’Bomsawin; and Fille de trans (Azimut Films), from screenwriters Judith Brès and Marie-Claude D’Aoust.

Selected titles also include Javelin Fade (Balat Centre-Ville). written by Daniel Schachter; La bête (Les Productions du moment), written by Isabelle Monette; Lac Adélard (KO24), by screenwriter Isabelle Pruneau-Brunet; Les Boys – Ainsi soit-il (ComediHa!), co-written by Richard Goudreau and Cathleen Rouleau; and Sainte Lola! (Trio Orange), written by Schelby Jean-Baptiste.

Another two narrative projects are The Great Canada Day Massacre (GPA Films) by screenwriter Elza Kephart; Trouble (Couronne Nord Gang), written by Charles Dionne; and Yogi stripper (Colonelle Films), written by Emilie Mannering.

Kilomètre zéro (Les Films de l’Isle) received support for re-writes from Jean Barbe, Hind Benchekroun and Sami Mermer

The documentary projects include Accueillir l’impermanence (Films du Rapide-Blanc), written by Sylvie Van Brabant; Exit the Dragon (EyeSteelFilm), written by Karen Cho; Haute saison (Némésis Films), by screenwriter Sarah Baril Gaudet; Le clan Panneton (Films Babel), written by Yan Giroux and Catherine Dumas; Le droit mène à tout (Les Films de l’Autre), written by Jean-François Lesage; and L’énigme Gerald Bull (Picbois Productions), written by Mathieu Fournier.

Les origines de la musique (Coop vidéo de Montréal), written by Isabelle Lavigne; Qui seras-tu? (Productions Leitmotiv), written by Lamia Chraibi; and Run de lait (La maison de Prod), by screenwriter Justin Laramée, round out the selected doc projects.

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