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NFB and Brazil announce winners


CANNES - The National Film Board of Canada, the Ministry of Culture of Brazil and the Brazilian Producers' Association today announced the four winners of a joint Canada/Brazil development fund at MIPCOM, the world's audiovisual content market. This new fund (as reported by Cartt.ca) is the latest result of a far-ranging Cultural Cooperation Program Agreement signed by the NFB and the Ministry of Culture of Brazil in March 2006."I'm extremely impressed by the quality and diversity of these four projects," said Jacques Bensimon, Government Film Commissioner and NFB chair, in a release. "Canada and Brazil share a commitment to strengthening...