Telefilm Canada is investing $25.8 million across 12 features for the English market in the first round of decisions for the big-budget stream of its Production Program, which supports Canadian features in the production or post-production stage.

The English-market decisions follow Telefilm’s French-market announcement for its big- and low-budget streams last week.

Eight of the 12 features selected as part of this round are international coproductions including Jason James’ Canada/U.K. comedy All Night Wrong, produced by James’ Vancouver prodco Resonance Films, Vancouver’s Goodbye Productions and the U.K.’s Big Safari Productions. The feature is written by Jason Filiatrault.

Also receiving Telefilm funding is Ariel Nasr’s English- and Dari-language Canada/France drama Daudistan, produced by Montreal’s Périphéria Productions, and the comedy Trish, produced by Montreal’s micro_scope, from director Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais. Trish is a Canada/Belgium coproduction written by Marc Tulin with the story by Tulin, Hoss-Desmarais and Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne.

While not an international coproduction, Here We Are, produced by Vancouver’s Thoughts From The Asylum Productions, is an English-, Cantonese- and Mandarin-language dramedy from writer-director Mina Shum. The above four films are distributed by Toronto’s Mongrel Media.

Two more Telefilm selections are The Long Way, a Canada/U.K. coproduction from Halifax’s Picture Plant, directed by Philip John and written by Michael Amo and writer-director Sophie Jarvis’ drama Taking the Waters, produced by Vancouver’s Reign Films and Ceroma Films. The English- and French-language project is a Switzerland/Canada coproduction. Both Taking the Waters and The Long Way are distributed by Toronto’s Game Theory Films.

Louise Archambault’s English- and French-language drama Cohen is produced by Montreal’s Immina Films, A Media and Toronto’s Rhombus Media. It is distributed by Immina and Elevation Pictures and written by Archambault and Conner Molander.

Also selected is Brandon Cronenberg’s science fiction horror Dragon, produced by Plausible Communications Corporation. The film is an international coproduction between Canada and the U.K with Elevation as its distributor.

More projects that are receiving funding include The Otters, a Canada/France coproduction produced by Multipix Management (Canada), directed by Julien Decoin and written by Cynthia Knight; The English- and Cherokee-language drama Tombs (Tombs Production) from writer-director Marie Clements; and Andy Hines’ thriller Little Lorraine, the only film selected under Telefilm’s post-production section. It is produced by Toronto- and L.A.-based Wango Films and Halifax-based Topsail Productions with Hines and Adam Baldwin as its writers. Photon Films is the distributor for the above three features.

The final selection for this round of features for the English market is Oddly Flowers, produced by Halifax’s Shut Up & Colour Pictures. The Canada/U.K. coproduction is written and directed by Jordan Canning and distributed by Montreal-headquartered VVS Films.

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