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Funding
Wango Films enters production on Dead Before Dawn
The film is the first fully Canadian 3D live-action project to be funded by Telefilm.
BlinkWorks Media brings it back to the people
Winnipeg’s Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky have used crowd-sourced funding to raise $35,000 in just over 24 hours to complete Indie Game: The Movie.
Bell Fund awards $4 million in latest round
Projects including Zeros 2 Heroes’ Animism property, Apartment 11’s In Real Life and DHX’s Monster Math Squad land funding.
Cosmopolis lands Telefilm funds
The David Cronenberg-directed film, starring Robert Pattinson, is currently shooting in Toronto.
Twenty projects named in CMF minority program
The first round of the Aboriginal and Francophone Minority Program is being supported with a $9 million contribution.
Alberta juices local production fund with new dollars
Alberta has bolstered its Multimedia Development Fund and is expected to tell the Banff World Media Festival this week that a long-awaited Calgary film and TV studio is to be built.
Manitoba government launches $30 million fund
Designed to stimulate commercial development in the province, the fund can be accessed by film, TV and new media companies too.
Toronto loses as U.S. TV shoots return to New York
The Empire State’s revival of its film tax credit has meant a slew of U.S. network series that might have shot in Canada or rival U.S. locales have returned to NYC.
Ferns, Koster in development on 1968 doc
The theatrical adaptation of the Mark Kurlansky book will be directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, with financial support by the Corus Made with Pay Fund.
Cosmopolis and Inescapable land HG Fund coin
The Cronenberg and Nadda films both nab funding from the org’s Equity Investment Program.
The 2011 Playback Indie Production List
Complementary to our latest print issue, the full company listings for each category of our annual report.
Ottawa confirms CBC and CMF funding in budget
Despite pledges to tighten belts in Ottawa, the federal government made good on an earlier commitment to give the CBC and the Canada Media Fund on-going funding.
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