Canadian Heritage maintains $50 million in annual funding for Telefilm

By Christopher Guly OTTAWA-The federal government will provide Telefilm Canada with $100 million in funding for two years, beginning in the upcoming fiscal year 2024-25, Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced on Parliament Hill on Wednesday. Telefilm previously received $105 million over three years from the 2021 federal budget that St-Onge said resulted in such feature films as BlackBerry, about Research in Motion’s signature mobile device, and Bones of Crows, about Canada’s residential school system. The new funding, she added, would support between 40 and 60 productions annually and “put food in our minds – in our thoughts and in...