Directors Guild calls on Bell to protect Harold Greenberg Fund

TORONTO — Reacting to last week’s news Bell Media is winding down Le Fonds Harold Greenberg and committing to maintaining its English-language equivalent for only one more year, the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) today called on Bell to protect the Harold Greenberg Fund and maintain its investments in Canadian feature film. “Over nearly 35 years, the Harold Greenberg Fund has become an indispensable source of investment in Canadian feature film,” said DGC national executive director Dave Forget, in the guild’s press release. “Private sector investment is essential to the health of the domestic film business and we’re calling on...