Patricia Rozema

Photo Gallery: 2014 CFC Annual Gala & Auction

Canadian industry talent, personalities and execs gather at The Carlu in Toronto for the annual gala event. (Measha Brueggergosman and Bill King pictured)

Patricia Rozema to direct Ellen Page in Into The Forest

Page is to produce and star in the theatrical feature based on a 1998 novel by Jean Hegland (Rozema pictured).

Harold Greenberg Fund invests in 27 movie scripts

Deepa Mehta’s Secret Daughter novel adaptation, Patricia Rozema’s Via Dolorosa and Sarah Polley’s Alias Grace adaptation are among the latest Canadian film projects getting development coin.

Norm Bolen to head up proposed all-Canadian film channel

Starlight: The Canadian Movie Channel also proposes to fund Canadian theatrical features, and is backed by, among others, Victor Loewy, Robert Lantos, Mark Musselman, Hussain Amarshi, Denys Arcand, David Cronenberg and Deepa Mehta.

Nineteen projects get Harold Greenberg Fund script support

Receiving backing in the latest quarter are Ian Harnarine’s adaptation of his short film, Doubles With Slight Pepper (pictured), Patricia Rozema’s adaptation of Paper Bag Princess and other projects.

In the writer’s room with Patricia Rozema

The writer and director talks to Playback about adapting reality to fiction, and moving between the writer’s room and the director’s chair, leading up to the Toronto Screenwriting Conference March 31 and April 1.