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Funding
Telefilm invests $4.7M in five feature films
Recipients in the latest round of funding include three international coproductions, such as 2D/3D animated thriller Un Monde truque (A Rigged World).
Bell Media invests $930K in NSI TV course
The new funds guarantee the program’s extension through the next seven years.
Forty script projects receive Harold Greenberg Fund coin
Announced from Prime Time in Ottawa, screenwriter and producer Suzette Couture is also named co-chair of the financier’s board of directors.
CMF invests $6.5 million in 27 digital projects
The industry fund handed out $1.6 million in marketing support, and another $4.9 million in development support to 19 companies countrywide.
YouTube names Canadian Collab program participants
Who will be the next Walk Off The Earth or Corey Vidal? YouTube aims to help creators improve content and build a fanase. (Japanizi: Going, Going, Gong! pictured.)
Crazy8s shorts contest announces 6 winning teams
The filmmaking challenge saw a 50% increase in applications over last year, with 154 applications in total.
Telefilm Canada invests $3.7M in five feature films
Xavier Dolan’s latest project starring Samuel L. Jackson is among the projects backed in the latest round of Canada Feature Film Fund financing. (Dolan pictured.)
Status, Skyjacker’s Tale land Shaw Media-Hot Docs funding
The Shaw Media-Hot Docs Funds have awarded development and completion grants totaling $236,000 to nine Canadian documentary projects. (Alan Zweig pictured).
Rick Brace to chair MuchFACT
The recently retired CTV exec takes over the reins from Hollywood Suite’s David Kines, who held the role since 2011.
TFCA launches new Peter Wintonick doc fund
The new fund, currently valued at $7,000, will be presented annually by the Toronto Film Critics Association.
Telefilm invests $4M in 18 productions
The list of under-$2.5M projects to receive support from the financier include Deanne Foley’s Relative Happiness (Foley pictured) and Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson’s Seances project.
NSI selects students for Aboriginal doc course
Each producer-and-director team selected for the course receives $16,000 in funding from the NSI, and an opportunity to show their doc on APTN.
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