The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has invested nearly $800,000 in development funds to 12 co-productions with screen bodies in Luxembourg, Northern Ireland and South Africa.

The CMF and Film Fund Luxembourg have allocated $370,000 in the development of two digital media and two television projects. The television projects are The Dirt Eaters (Inner City Film Development; $50,000) and Pimpernelle (Omni Film Drama Development; $46,650) and the digital media projects are augmented reality title AR Fables (Thousand Stars Studio; $46,875) and video game Oto’s Planet (Département, Studio Créatif; $37,500). The two bodies have previously worked together on $2.5 million in funding for 12 other projects.

Five projects have received a total of $231,000 through the Canada-Northern Ireland Co-Development Incentive with Northern Ireland Screen. The projects include children’s and youth titles School of Magic (Epic Story Media; $25,000) and The Polka Dot Hotel (Global Mechanic Media; $15,068), drama titles Belfast Summer (Real Good Bet Productions; $24,880) and Committed: Starring Gerry Dee (Gerard ADHD Entertainment; $18,401), and the game Own the Lawn ($23,195) . In 2018/19 the two invested close to $600,000 in 12 television projects.

Finally, CMF and South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation provided $192,000 in co-development dollars to three drama series, including The Stoic (Blue Ant Studios; $32,500), Paradise Lost (Byron A. Martin Productions; $32,500) and Badwater Flats (Boomerang Films; $31,000). In 2017/18, the two partnered to invest $800,000 in a dozen projects for television.

In total, the investments add up to $794,000.

All projects were nominated by selection committees comprised of representatives from both the CMF and their funding partners.