Anthony Shim’s Riceboy Sleeps and Stéphane Lafleur’s Viking will bow in the festival’s competitive Platform program alongside eight other titles.
The Canadian Cinema Editors event will also hand out special honours, including a posthumous Career Achievement Award for the late filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée.
The Quebec feature launched on Netflix after amassing $2.1 million at the box office.
The Bell Media streaming service is adding 6,000 hours of French-language content, including its original series Pour toujours, plus un jour.
The Nomadic Pictures series will begin production in Vancouver in early 2019.
The CTV and Super Ecran drama is shooting in North Bay, ON and Toronto.
Produced by Montreal’s Productions Casablanca, the six-parter will have its linear debut in October.
Six more episodes of the thriller are scheduled to launch as part of CTV and Super Ecran’s 2017/18 season.
The six-part original, which is currently filming in Montreal, will air on CTV and Super Ecran.
The Longueuil, QC-based prodco will go to camera on the sitcom this fall. (Star Rossif Sutherland pictured.)
CMF invests $8.1M through Francophone Minority Program
The funder backed a total of 15 projects, including a $1.16 million investment in Slalom Productions TV drama Malediction de Jonathan Plourde.