Six U.K.-Canadian co-productions awarded $510,000 for immersive storytelling projects

TORONTO — The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) announced today six creative projects have been awarded a total of $510,000 as part of the next phase of the UK-Canada Immersive Exchange, the talent development and co-production program for U.K. and Canadian immersive technology creatives and producers that was launched last year. A total of 24 participants (12 from the U.K. and 12 from Canada) were originally chosen from 500 applications for the talent development phase of the exchange, which concluded in February 2021. The chosen participants included six creative leads (a mixture of artists, filmmakers, theatre directors and innovators) and six...