Funding

CBC, CineCoup and JFL launch comedy accelerator

The winner of the competition will receive $500,000 in production financing for a half-hour comedy special that will air on the CBC.

Telefilm invests over $2.5M across 7 French features

Films selected to receive funding in this latest round of financing include Patrick Gaze’s Ceci n’est pas un polar and Robert Morin’s La probleme d’infiltration.

Party like you’re financing a documentary

How the filmmaking team behind The Integral Man is raising funds and building a future audience by hosting high-end events at the home of doc subject Jim Stewart.

IPF invests nearly $2M across 17 web series

Thirteen of the projects selected to receive funding are new web series to be produced in 2014, including Smokebomb Entertainment’s Inhuman Condition (pictured).

Telefilm invests $13M across 9 features

Among the films selected to receive financing in this latest round of funding include the copro Aloft and Sean Garrity’s After the Ball.

BravoFACT invests $250K across 7 shorts

Projects that were awarded funding in the latest round of financing include films from Sophie Jarvis and Kent Nolan.

Book of Negroes, Corner Gas movie among Bell Fund recipients

Other productions to receive financing through the fund include Dino Hunt Canada and the children’s series Chirp. (Corner Gas pictured.)

Harold Greenberg Fund invests $700K in latest round

Selected projects include feature films from directors Jeffrey St. Jules, Jefferson Moneo and Alain Descrochers.

Telefilm, Rogers invest $1.1 million in 5 docs

The selected films include projects from Larry Weinstein and Nicholas de Pencier.

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Harold Greenberg Fund shorts program expanded

This year’s edition of the Shorts-to-Feature program will see more projects supported with more cash.

Corner Gas crowdfunding about the fans: producer

The purpose of the Kickstarter campaign for Corner Gas: The Movie was to give fans an opportunity to be involved, says executive producer Virginia Thompson.

IMAX launches $50M documentary film fund

Giant screen firm IMAX is planning to co-finance 10 large-format, educational documentaries through a newly established IMAX Original Film Fund.