TORONTO – Corus Entertainment on Monday announced concept and script development funding for 48 Canadian feature film projects through its Corus Made with Pay Fund.
The Corus Made with Pay Fund, which is administered by Movie Central, provides financial support to Canadian television and film productions at various stages of development.
“Recently, the Made with Pay Fund supported acclaimed films like Away From Her, Eastern Promises and the upcoming Fugitive Pieces, and we will continue to invest in new projects that have the potential to ensure the ongoing growth and success of the Canadian film industry,” said Movie Central VP of programming Erica Benson.
The film projects receiving funding are: Act of Power (Sudden Storm Entertainment Inc., screenwriter Geoff Hart), All that Matters (Triptych Media Inc., screenwriter Paolo Barzman), Amphibian (Long Tale Productions, screenwriter Monica Hilborn), Bardo (Submission Films Productions Inc., screenwriter Gaurav Seth), Call Forward (January Films Inc., screenwriter Terrance Odette), Can You Hear Me Now? (Triptych Media, screenwriter Wiebke von Carlsfeld), Charley Barley (Left Bank Productions Ltd., screenwriter Angus Fraser), Chasing the Stars (Orca Productions Inc., screenwriter Leanne Baugh-Peterson), CHUMPS (Fast Productions Inc., screenwriter Elizabeth Stewart), Cryptid (Long Tale Productions, screenwriter Monica Hilborn), Dog Creek (Ross Weber, screenwriter Ross Weber), Hobgoblin (Florin Films Inc., screenwriter Ori Kowarsky), Inconceivable (screenwriter Craig Martin), Jenny Two Bears (Violator Films Inc., screenwriter Shannon Masters), Kush Kush in the Bush: Bollywood Comes to the Trailer Park (Buffalo Gal Pictures/Femmina Films Inc/Diamonds to Bullets Enterprises Inc., screenwriter Rebecca Sernasie), LaRazza (Lucid Dreams Inc., screenwriter Deborah Wakeman), Little Brother (Federgreen Entertainment, screenwriter Gaurav Seth), My Dear Clara (screenwriter Garry Beitel), O’Cannabis (Muse Entertainment Enterprises Inc., screenwriters Paul Pogue, Paul Bellini, John Hazlett), One Degree Closer (May Street Productions Ltd., screenwriter Hilary Pryor), Out of Control (screenwriter Karen Bardach), Pandora (Timothy B. Carter, screenwriter: Timothy Carter), Possessed (Corvid Pictures Inc., screenwriter Elan Mastai), Quantum (screenwriter Gaurav Seth), Rum and Ritalin (Dreamchaser Productions Inc., screenwriter Andrew Garland), Satori in Montreal (Landovision Productions Ltd, screenwriter: Lindsay Bourne), Squirrels (Creative Engine Pictures Inc., screenwriter Maya Miller), Stay (Submission Films Productions Inc., screenwriter Wiebke von Carlsfeld), Strange Love (Eagle Vision, screenwriters Robert Cuffley, Jason Long), The Breadwinner (Ecstasy Film Inc., screenwriter Rob Heydon), The Colony (Alcina Pictures Ltd/Mad Hat Productions Inc., screenwriters Patrick Tarr, Pascal Trottier), The Deserter’s Tale (The Film Works Ltd., screenwriter Donald Martin), The Edible Woman (Strada Films Inc., screenwriters Paula Todd, Francine Zuckerman), The Knight and the Loathly Lady, (Capri Films Inc., screenwriters Noel Baker, Gregory Marquette), The Living Skies (Mad Hat Productions, screenwriter Michael Giampa), The McLean Boys (Oasis Productions, screenwriter Ian Weir), The Rebel Kind (Optic Nerve Films Inc., screenwriter Reginald Harkema), The Serial Killers Club (Standing 8 Productions Inc., screenwriter Chaz Thorne), The Road Less Travelled (screenwriter Scott Fitzgerald Gray), The Room (screenwriter Michael Giampa), The Shooting Stage (Optic Nerve Films Inc., screenwriter Michael MacLennan), The Time In Between (Crescent Entertainment Ltd., screenwriter Harold Tichenor), To the Wedding (Screen Siren Pictures Inc., screenwriter Tess McWatt), The Visitor (Creative Engine Pictures Inc., screenwriter Aaron Woodley), The Volunteers (Orca Lexico Joint Venture, screenwriter Monica Hilborn), Unflinching (White Pine Pictures Inc., screenwriter Carolyn Saunders), Walking Beauty (January Films Ltd., screenwriter Elyse Friedman) and What About Me (I/C Films Inc., screenwriters Patrick Tarr, Pascal Trottier).
The Corus Made with Pay Fund approves funding for film projects on a quarterly basis. The next deadlines for applications are April 2, 2008 and July 2, 2008. Funding for television series is determined on an ongoing basis.
For details about the Corus Made with Pay Fund, go to www.corusent.com and click under Corporate and then Funds and Initiatives.
