The funding will go toward 12 English-language feature projects, including Ethel from Maudie director Aisling Walsh.
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A week-long trade mission to Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands began with the reopening of a digital media incentive between Canada and the German region of Berlin-Brandenburg.
The program, kicking off its 21st edition this week, now has two streams — series and features — unfolding over three months.
Race Against the Tide producer and N.B. native Mark Bishop says the investment is the “beginning of the next chapter” for the province’s screen sector.
The agreement signed last summer and officially implemented May 1 covers the areas of film, television and on-demand audiovisual media services.
The selection includes two English-language copros and six minority Quebec coproductions, with Xavier Dolan and the makers of Turbo Kid among the producers and creatives attached.