Industry advisory – Telefilm Canada announces English CFFF Development & Writer’s First decisions
Montreal, July 23, 2009 – Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce that 59 English-language projects have received financing from the development component of the Canada Feature Film Fund (CFFF).
Telefilm’s Writer’s First program, whose intent is to develop and retain a pool of creative and talented screenwriters as well as a bank of screenplays that are likely to succeed at the box office, has financed 14 English-language projects from its two phases: Outline to Treatment and Treatment to First Draft.
Please note the projects noted here are reflective of projects which received offers of financial support and /or were contracted and fully executed during the period April 1 – July 10, 2009. Please note that projects listed in previous Industry Advisories are not included.
Development Program – Canada Feature Film Fund
Western Region
|
Project |
Screenwriter |
Production company |
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Bitten |
Tim Carter |
Contradiction Films Inc. |
|
Chamber (The) |
Mark Lewis & Zev Tiefenbach |
Artifact Films Inc. |
|
Comatose |
Zach Lipovsky |
0785878 BC Ltd. |
|
International Idol |
J. B. Sugar |
No Equal Entertainment Inc. |
|
John Doe |
Ross Ferguson |
Optic Nerve Films Inc. |
|
Kids Are On Fire (The) |
J. Joly |
Overinteractive Media Inc. |
|
Lottery (The) |
Tara Gereaux |
Serious Filmed Entertainment Inc./ Creative Engine Pictures Inc. |
|
Matching Blue |
Stephen Price |
Massey Productions Ltd. |
|
On the Blood |
Peter Behrens |
Certain Films Ltd./Schafer Thurling Productions Ltd. |
|
Satan’s Brew |
Rebecca Gibson |
Eagle Vision Inc. |
|
Sense of Things (The) |
Jackie Mills |
Big Blue Films Inc. |
|
Sex Lives of Pirates |
David Ray & Armen Evrensel |
Cheap & Dirty Productions Inc. |
|
Shed Devil |
Sean Garrity |
Inferno Pictures Inc. |
|
Teen Lust |
Blaine Thurier |
Independent Edge Films Inc. |
|
Trance |
Jason DaSilva |
In Face Films Inc. |
Quebec Region
|
Project |
Screenwriter |
Production company |
|
Audition (The) |
Nicolas Billon |
Melenny Productions Inc. |
|
Gastown |
Sarah Beckette |
Silo Corporation |
|
Hockey Night in Moose Jaw |
John Harrington & James Harrington |
Melenny Productions Inc. |
|
Housekeeper |
Philip Kalin-Hajdu |
Couzin Films Inc. |
|
Jingle Bells Rocks |
Mitchell Kezin |
Eye Steel Inc. |
|
Notre Dame de Grace |
Jacob Tierney |
Park Ex Pictures Inc. |
|
Rose by Name |
Shawn Linden |
Suki Films Inc. |
|
Salt |
Max McGuire & Sean Riopelle |
Transfilm Inc./Cine-Roman Inc. |
|
Therac 25 |
Adam Pettle |
Les Films Jessie Inc. |
|
Vivaldi |
Kevin Lund & Timothy James Scott |
Les Productions Equinoxe Inc. |
|
Vulnerable |
Paul Quarrington |
Cité-Amérique Inc. |
|
Wolfpack |
Darren Curtis, John Hazlett, Pat Kiely & Matt Silver |
4473256 Canada Inc. |
Ontario & Nunavut Regions
|
Project |
Screenwriter |
Production company |
|
Anti-Diva |
Tamara Berger |
Straight Edge Films Inc, |
|
Bone |
Ryan Redford |
The Film Works Ltd. |
|
Celia |
Kellie Ann Benz |
Euclid 431 Pictures Inc. & Somnapix Inc. |
|
Death of Sweet Mister (The) |
John Brownlow |
Calder Road Films Inc. |
|
Earth (The) |
Peter Wellington |
The Film Farm Inc. |
|
Falling From Grace |
Layne Coleman & Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman |
Four Seasons Productions Inc. |
|
Fatwa |
Ruba Nadda |
Foundry Films Inc. |
|
Finale |
Leon Marr |
Leader Media Productions Ltd. |
|
Grizzlies (The) |
Graham Yost |
Northwood Productions Inc. |
|
Hidden |
David Shamoon |
The Film Works Ltd. |
|
Home Again |
Jennifer Holness |
Hungry Eyes Film & Television Inc. |
|
Illiterature |
Shawn Postoff |
Javelin Picures Inc. |
|
Kit’s Law |
Thom Fitzgerald |
Conjure Entertainment Limited & Emotion Pictures Incorporated |
|
Kristina |
Michel-Marc Bouchard |
Triptych Media Inc. |
|
League of Monster Slayers |
Aaron Woodley |
New Real Films Inc. |
|
Malabar Court |
Niara Modi |
Six Island Productions Inc. |
|
Medieval |
Dan Signer & Alexander Epstein |
Amaze Film + Television Inc. |
|
Moody Food |
Graeme Manson |
T.L. Boulton Productions Ltd. |
|
November Gale |
Gerald Wexler, Ratch Wallace & Peter Lower |
Seafarer Films Inc. |
|
Oma |
Claudia Casagrande & Andrea Blundell |
January Films Ltd. |
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Overtime |
Damian Lee |
Overtime Film Productions Ltd. |
|
Paddle to the Amazon |
Pete McCormack |
Insight Production Company Ltd. |
|
Retreat (The) |
James Hartnett |
Bensondale Productions Inc. |
|
Return to Bikini Mountain |
Collin Friesen |
January Films Limited |
|
Return of the Fabulous Seven |
Brian Drader |
Markham Street Films |
|
Schooled |
Greg Gutman & Darryl Smith |
Shoes Full of Feet Inc. |
|
Scream of a Butterfly |
Boris Mojsovski & Levko Mojsovski |
Summer Pictures Inc. |
|
Seven Deadly Sins |
Denise Blinn, Rebecca Addelman, Julia Kwan, Shannon Masters, Annmarie Morais, Cassandra Nicolau, Karen Troubetzkoy, Nikolijne Troubetzkoy |
Calder Road Films Inc. |
|
Small Town Murder Scenes |
Ed Gass-Donnelly |
3 Legged Dog Films Ltd. |
|
Textuality |
Liam Card |
Strident Films |
|
Three in the Back, Two in the Head |
Jason Sherman |
3 Legged Films Ltd. |
|
Uthando |
Gerald Wexler |
Nedji Corporation & Prospero Pictures |
Writer’s First – Outline to Treatment
|
Project |
Screenwriter(s) |
Region |
|
Dark Continent |
Ross Ferguson |
Western |
|
Down the 401 |
Theodore Bezaire |
Ontario & Nunavut |
|
Mad Robin |
Andrew Currie |
Western |
|
Silver and Gold |
Randall Cole |
Ontario & Nunavut |
|
Slow & the Dead (The) |
Victor Nicolle |
Western |
|
Snap |
Sean Garrity |
Western |
|
Sputnik |
Bojan Bodruzic & Dragana Bodruzic |
Western |
|
Summer Game |
John Hazlett |
Quebec |
|
Triplex |
Jesse Andrew Heffring & Al Kratina |
Quebec |
Writer’s First – Treatment to First Draft
|
Project |
Screenwriter(s) |
Region |
|
Black Angel |
Guy Bennett |
Western |
|
Borders |
Jeff Stephenson |
Ontario & Nunavut |
|
Ex Men |
Lee Hoverd |
Ontario & Nunavut |
|
Home? |
Lewis Cohen |
Quebec |
|
Horse |
Darren Curtis, Matt Silver & Pat Kiely |
Quebec |