Funding

In Brief: Montreal Girls wins best debut feature award at Female Eye festival

Plus: Forest City Film Festival expands pitch program and recipients of Music Video Production Project grant announced.

SODEC selects 13 documentaries for production funding

The assistance program provides support for original medium- to feature-length docs.

Production

CMF’s Canada-Germany copro incentive allocates over $550,000

The digital media projects receiving funding include An Empty Seat, a coproduction between Montreal’s Art et Essai and Berlin-based High Road Stories.

Telefilm commits $5M to 20 English market docs

The selected feature-length docs include bilingual and multilingual productions.

In Brief: Neve Campbell joins Swan Song as executive producer

Plus, Rogers’ revenue gets major boost from Shaw merger, while In the Black gets U.K. funds.

Quebecor Fund selects two features for $426K production support

Cinémaginaire’s Les belles-soeurs and Sphère Média’s 1994-95 will receive funding under the Film Production Assistance Program.

Docproduction

Telefilm commits $1.65M to eight French market docs

The films will receive production support via the Theatrical Documentary Program.

CMF invests over $14M across Indigenous, POV programs

A new season of APTN’s Treaty Road and a doc on singer-songwriter Carole Pope are among the recipients across the two programs.

In Brief: Eternal Spring shortlisted for Grierson doc award

Plus: The Just for Laughs comedy festival receives $1.5M in government funding and Jessica Hinkson’s short Sara selected to world bow at HollyShorts.

SODEC selects 23 films for development support

The assistance program is designed to support the development of original documentary and fiction films from Quebec.

In Brief: Vancouver Queer Film Festival sets 10 world premieres

Plus: Telefilm allocates $310,000 to Canadian film festivals and Cineplex reports pre-pandemic revenue levels for June.

Production

Bell Fund commits over $4.4M to 21 TV, digital series

A total of $2.4 million has been allocated through the TV Selective Program and more than $2 million via the Short-Form Digital Series Program.