The fund committed almost $2.15 million to 126 English-language projects, including film development and industry initiatives.
Sudz Sutherland’s Home Again and Richie Mehta’s I’ll Follow You Down received funding through the program.
Super Pulp! from Troy Nixey and Baseballisimo from Jay Baruchel and Jesse Chabot are among the selected projects in the latest funding round.
The film program aims to help emerging filmmakers make short films they can potentially expand into debut features.
The fund’s English-language program president John Galway tells Playback that the prize aims to boost support and success for comedic short filmmakers in Canada.
The indie thriller will shoot through mid-March in Canada, South Africa and Lebanon.
Playback catches up with director David Schultz during the shooting of his third feature film.
The Canadian indie films Roller Town and Comforting Skin received support to market themselves to distributors and rival festivals.
The page-to-screen adaptation is one of 29 projects receiving seed financing from Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund during its latest funding round.
The industry fund’s latest annual report reveals coin for 180 projects from early-stage inception to polish and packaging.
The project is Nadda’s follow-up to Cairo Time, which won the best Canadian feature prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The industry fund is investing in two writer-directors set to shift their careers in new directions, says English language program president John Galway.