Telefilm's Slate Development Pilot Program backs Anagram Pictures

MONTREAL – Telefilm Canada announced Monday that Anagram Pictures is the second recipient of its new Slate Development Pilot Program. The production company will work with distributor Maple Pictures on a minimum of three English-language productions through all phases of development. Anagram backed Andrew Currie’s zombie flick, Fido. The Slate Development Pilot Program provides a corporate line of credit over the course of the three-year program to successful recipients, who are required to work with an established distribution company throughout the development process. “What’s innovative about this pilot program is that we’re financing the production company and not the project,”...