Telefilm invests $4.8 million in five big-budget English projects

This is the second round of funding for big-budget English market films under the Production Program.

Telefilm Canada has committed $4.8 million to five English-language films through the big-budget stream of its Production Program, which supports films with a budget of $3.5 million or higher.

The selected projects include the animated fantasy Fairyheart (Storyteller Pictures). The film is a Germany/Canada/Hungary coproduction, directed by Anita Doron and co-written by Doron and Attila Gigor, with Vortex Media distributing.

Elevation Pictures is attached as distributor on two of the films, including Telephone (Jobro Productions), a science-fiction copro between Canada and Belgium. The project is directed by Anthony Scott Burns and written by Burns, Jack Stanley, Álex Pastor and David Pastor.

Elevation Pictures is also distributing Alberta-shot Legends of Conquest (Northern Gateway Films), a family-adventure film directed by Dylan Pearce and written by Pearce and Marcus Rosner.

Rounding out the big-budget films are the psychological drama The Eden Express (Scythia Films), a Canada/Scotland copro directed by Daniel Cockburn and co-written by Cockburn and James Schultz, distributed by Mongrel Media; and family-adventure film The First Dinosaur (Sinking Ship Entertainment), directed by J.J Johnson and co-written by Johnson, Joan Digba and Christin Simms, distributed by Sinking Ship.

This is the second round of Telefilm’s big-budget funding for the year. Telefilm said it will announce more funding decisions, including those from the Talent to Watch Program, in the coming weeks.

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