TORONTO and WINNIPEG — Bell Media’s The Harold Greenberg Fund and Manitoba Film & Music announced Monday their selections for the HGF/Manitoba Shorts Program, which will see four projects receive a total of $80,000 in funding.
The joint initiative “is designed to finance short films from Manitoba filmmaking teams, showcasing new creative visions and furthering the careers of writers, directors and producers as they move towards feature filmmaking,” Bell Media said in a news release.
Each of the short-film projects will receive $20,000 in combined financial contributions from the HGF/Manitoba Shorts Program.
The four short-film projects selected are the following:
- Broken Glass from writer/director Sage Daniels and producer Sonya Ballantine. Summary: A young poet, confronted by his junky ex-lover, has to make a decision about their lives together.
- Devotion from writer/director Rowan Gray and producer Jessica Gibson. Summary: A young, hired caregiver discovers that the senior woman she is responsible for is missing and is sent out to the fields of rural Manitoba to find her.
- Lover Boy’s Little Dream from writer/director Ritvick Mehra and producer Gerard Jacinto. Summary: Discovering that he’s working in the same office as his long-time crush Mimi, Lover Boy dreams of a future with her. To make it a reality, he must take action and not worry about messing up what he already has.
- Wolf in Dude’s Clothing from writer/director Solmund MacPherson and producer Drew Scurfield. Summary: A starving wolf finds a suit of human skin and uses it to become part of society.
“We’re extremely proud of the diverse spectrum of voices and genres from Manitoba’s filmmaking community that are represented in our inaugural selections for the HGF/Manitoba Shorts Program,” said John Galway, president, English-language program, The Harold Greenberg Fund, in the news release.
Rachel Rusen Margolis, CEO and Manitoba film commissioner, Manitoba Film & Music, added: “These four selections demonstrate strong narratives and fresh, distinct approaches to realizing their vision. The collaboration with the Harold Greenberg Fund affords these filmmakers a national profile that will help advance their careers.”
