WFF has partnered with Capilano University to host the first phase of the program.
Bobkin is attending the Lab with his feature People You Follow, an adaptation of Hayley Gene Penner’s memoir of the same name.
The eight month program provides industry professionals who are Black, Indigenous or persons of colour with access to film and television executives.
The Atlantic International Film Festival delegation marks an east coast expansion for the Director Market Accelerator, an initiative of the DGC’s National Directors Division.
The participants will travel to Ireland’s Galway Film Fleadh in July for a targeted business development mission.
The six Saskatchewan-based participants will develop an original project over eight months and receive market exposure at the Whistler Film Festival.
Launching in the fall, the initiative pairs racialized and equity-deserving talent with a showrunner mentor to develop their skills and original comedy pilots.
The Access Reelworld Wage Subsidy Program will provide funding for the salaries of four mid-career, equity-deserving professionals at four Canadian production companies.
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As part of the program, the 10-person cohort will collaborate on a short film.
The annual program offers training for emerging to mid-level Canadian directors, writers, producers and editors.
The Vancouver-based Alfeld is bringing a number of scripted projects to the festival.