British Columbia Film reports that seven documentaries, four television series, two features and one mow received $1.58 million in funds during the three-month period ending Sept. 30, 1996.

Added to the kitty was $147,000 in the research and development of 15 screenplays and one interactive multimedia project.

Features receiving funding were Left Intentionally Blank Productions’ Airport In and Skyscraper Productions’ Best Wishes Mason Chadwick.

Documentaries garnering production money were E. Motion Films’ I Wanna Be Adored, Yaletown Productions’ Out of Bounds, Across Borders Productions’ Spirit of the Drum, Snapshot Productions’ Telling The World, Paddy Moore and Roger Larry’s Tested, Accolade Productions’ The Toughest Break and Papa Bear Productions’ True Prince: Vladimir Malakhov.

tv series receiving funding were Asterisk Productions’ Communities, Omni Films’ Champions of the Wild, Andre Rheaume’s The Jazz Cafe and Forefront Productions’ Madison iv. The tv movie Lifeline from Movie Vista Productions also received financing.