New projects from Rhombus Media, Productions La Fete, Tapestry Films and Triptych Media are among 18 films receiving support in the latest round of script development funding at the Harold Greenberg Fund. This is the fourth installment of funding in its current fiscal, bringing the total number of projects supported to 65.

The funding recipients include Rhombus’ gangster drama Boyd, written by Nathan Morlando; Triptych’s The Bay of Love and Sorrows, based on the novel of the same name and penned by David Adams Richards; La Fete’s family film Northern Dancer, written by Margaret Webb; and Shaftesbury Films’ Palm Trees in the Snow, written by Guillermo Verdecchia and chronicling a young, terminally ill Salsa musician who takes his band on the road.

Also receiving support are Tapestry’s The Way of a Boy, scripted by Keith Ross Leckie and based on the Ernest Hillen novel of the same name and set against the backdrop of wwii prisoner of war camps; Sienna Films’ Priceless, the story of a Korean-Canadian woman who smuggles an illegal immigrant into Canada, penned by Helen Lee; Brian Dennis Productions’ A Conspiracy of Mermaids, a romantic comedy set in Newfoundland and written by Shelley Erikson; and Great North Productions’ Sahara, the story of an African-Canadian girl’s travels to Africa, written by Bed Ged Loew.