MONTREAL – Telefilm Canada will finance 17 English-language feature films this year under the Canada Feature Film Fund.
Five regional projects will proceed, as well as six projects under the organization’s low budget independent feature film assistance program.
The national projects include Beat the World, Hockey: The Musical, and The Whistleblower from the Ontario and Nunavut region; The Kate Logan Affair from the Quebec region, plus Wrecked and Fubar II from the Western region.
In related news, Telefilm Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds announced that nine feature-length documentary projects will receive funding support under the Theatrical documentary program in 2009-2010.
Launched in 2005-2006 as a one-year pilot project, this public-private partnership was recently renewed until 2011. With a total budget of $4.5 million, the program provides funding during production and post-production stages for feature-length documentary projects with production budgets of $500,000 or more in French and $600,000 or more in English.
Telefilm Canada, a federal cultural agency dedicated to developing and promoting the Canadian audiovisual industry, provides financial support to the private sector to create distinctively Canadian productions that appeal to domestic and international audiences.
