Telefilm Canada’s Not Short on Talent initiative is taking 11 Canadian short films to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Market in France, the organization said late last week.

The market runs parallel to the 35th Clermont-Ferrant International Short Film Festival.

Curator Danny Lennon put the 100-minute Canadian program together from more than 150 submissions.

The films are a mix of dark comedy, animation, fantasy and experimental drama from filmmakers across the country, including Quebec, B.C., and Nova Scotia.

The initiative is designed to increase international distribution of new Canadian short films and promote Canadian talent to buyers and international festival programmers.

This is the fourth edition of the Not Short on Talent initiative. The program also presented Canadian short films at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and 2012, and at the Festival Off-Courts Trouville in 2012.

The Canadian films that will be screened at the Clermont-Ferrand market are as follows:

• Cracking Down Hard, Mike Clattenburg (Nova Scotia)
• Julie au bois, Julien Cadieux (New Brunswick)
• La Grand Voyage d’Elastika/A Girl Named Elastika,Guillaume Blanchet (Quebec)
• Dragon Baby, Batrick Boivin (Quebec)
• Micta, Elisa Moar and Marie-Pier Ottawa (Quebec)
• How To Keep Your Day Job, Sean Frewer (Ontario)
• Portrait as a Random Act of Violence, Randall Okita (B.C.)
• Lingo, Bahar Noorizadeh (B.C.)
• Peach Juice, Nathan Gilliss, Brian Lye and Callum Paterson (B.C.)
• Yellow Sticky Notes |Canadian Anijam, collective work produced by Jeff Chiba Stearns (B.C.)

The films will be presented Feb. 6, 2012 at the Clermond-Ferrard International Short Film Market.