The Société de développement des entreprises culturelle (SODEC) has selected 14 feature film projects in production and post-production during 2023-24 for support.

The selected films include eight minority coproductions, one majority English-language copro and five projects in post-production. The support is provided through the aid component for feature with budgets of $3.5 million or higher.

The minority copros include Vanja d’Alcantara’s Canada-Belgium copro Cap Farewell, which is produced by Quebec’s Corporation de développement et de production ACPAV and Belgium-based Iota Production. D’Alcantara wrote the script alongside Agnès Caffin and Roel Mondelaers. Maison 4:3 is the distributor.

Maison 4:3 is also distributing Melvile, directed by Romain Renard and Fursy Teyssier, written by Renard, Olivier Tollet and Anne-Laure Guégan, and produced by Productions l’unité centrale and Belgium’s Need productions.

Also selected are director Caroline Deruas’ Canada/France feature Immortelles (Possibles Média, Les Films de la Capitaine, Les Films de Force Majeur SAS), written by Maud Ameline, Caroline Deruas and Victoria Kaario, with K-Films Amérique distributing; Canada/Morocco copro L’héritier des secrets (Objectif 9, Awman Productions), written and directed by Mohamed Nadif and co-written by Olivier Coussemacq; and writer-director Ameer Fakher Eldin’s Canada/Germany feature Yunan (Microclimat Films, Red Balloon Film). Filmoption International is distributing L’héritier des secrets and Yunan. 

Additional minority copros include writer-director Miki Polonski’s Canada/Israel film Takotsubo (Art et essai, Bustan Films), with Studios H264 as distributor; and writer-director Graeme Maley’s Canada/Scotland/Iceland feature Sick Heart River (Rustique Oracle, Vieille Amérique, Makar Productions, Zik Zak); and writer-director Ken Scott’s Ma mère, Canada/France copro Dieu et Sylvie Vartan (Christal Films Productions, Gaumont, Égérie Productions), with Les Films Opale distributing.

Director Jérémy Comte’s Canada/France feature Paradise (Entract Studios, Cinenovo, Constellation Productions) is the majority English-language copro. The film is written by Comte and Will Niava. Entract Films is distributing.

Entract is also attached as the distributor on the post-production project Best Boy (Chasseurs Films), written and directed by Jesse Noah Klein.

Post-production projects also include writer-director Babek Aliassa’s Le ventre de Bassima (Les Films Rumi), with Distribution FunFilm distributing; writer-director-producer Simon Lavoie’s Se fondre, which is distributed by K-Films; writer-director Karl Raudsepp-Hearne’s The G (3Buck Productions), with Maison 4:3 distributing; and Ville Jacques-Carton (Papier-Brique), written and directed by Marc-André Forcier and Jean-Marc E. Roy, with Coop Spira distributing.

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