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(with Raven Banner)&nbsp;<br>Province: Quebec&nbsp;<br>Language: English&nbsp;<br>*Majority coproduction with Belgium&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nightingale&nbsp;<\/strong>(historical drama)&nbsp;<br>Directors and screenwriters: Guy Maddin,&nbsp;Evan&nbsp;Johnson&nbsp;and Galen Johnson&nbsp;<br>Production: Thin Stuff Productions Inc.&nbsp;<br>Distributor: Elevation Pictures&nbsp;<br>Province: Manitoba&nbsp;<br>Language: English&nbsp;<br>*Majority coproduction with United Kingdom&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rapture&nbsp;<\/strong>(horror)&nbsp;<br>Director and screenwriter: Jordan Tannahill&nbsp;<br>Production:&nbsp;Elevation Pictures&nbsp;<br>Distributor: Elevation Pictures&nbsp;<br>Province: Ontario&nbsp;<br>Language: English&nbsp;<br>*Majority coproduction with United Kingdom&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Suffering Is Optional&nbsp;<\/strong>(drama)&nbsp;<br>Director and screenwriter: Zarrar Kahn&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Production: CityLights Media Inc., LBG Films Inc., Other Memory Media, and Couronne<br>Nord Inc.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Distributor: Game Theory Films, with h264 (Quebec)&nbsp;<br>Province: Ontario, Quebec&nbsp;<br>Language: English,&nbsp;French&nbsp;and Urdu&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Untitled Matt Johnson Film&nbsp;<\/strong>(drama)&nbsp;<br>Director and screenwriter: Matt Johnson&nbsp;<br>Production: Zapruder Films Inc.&nbsp;<br>Distributor: Elevation Pictures&nbsp;<br>Province: Ontario&nbsp;<br>Language: English&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Worse Together <\/strong>(drama)&nbsp;<br>Director&nbsp;and screenwriter: Luis De Filippis&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Production: JA Productions Inc. and Fra Diavolo Films Inc.&nbsp;<br>Distributor: Maison 4:3, with MDFF&nbsp;<br>Province: Ontario&nbsp;<br>Language: English&nbsp;<br>*Majority coproduction with Switzerland&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the&nbsp;first intake&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Production Program\u2019s&nbsp;big budget stream, 55&nbsp;projects&nbsp;\u2013 including 13 majority coproductions \u2013&nbsp;were assessed,&nbsp;representing&nbsp;$126&nbsp;million in funding requests. Telefilm met with the teams&nbsp;behind each project submission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An advisory committee&nbsp;composed of external and internal representatives has evaluated the projects and made its recommendations. The decision-making process, across&nbsp;multiple rounds of&nbsp;decisions&nbsp;over the coming months,&nbsp;is designed to ensure that Telefilm funds a balanced production portfolio reflecting a variety of genres, budgets, company sizes, regions of the country, and perspectives. A list of the selection committee members will be posted on Telefilm\u2019s\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/telefilm.ca\/we-finance-and-support\/project-financing-advisory-committees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project Financing Advisory Committees page<\/a>\u202fat the end of each fiscal year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should also be noted that the project teams selected under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/telefilm.ca\/programmes\/development-program#program-overview\">Springboard\u00a0Initiative<\/a>\u00a0will be contacted shortly. Under this initiative, projects that were not selected for production funding but ranked highly during the evaluation process may be invited to apply for development funding to strengthen their project for a future production application.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More funding decisions&nbsp;will be announced&nbsp;through April to September of this year. 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