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Telefilm Canada, Talent Fund, select 45 projects under expanded Talent to Watch Program

TORONTO and MONTREAL - Telefilm Canada and the Talent Fund have announced the first 45 English- and French-language projects selected under the new Talent to Watch Program (formerly known as the Micro-Budget Production Program).Creative teams from across the country submitted potential projects to one of the program’s designated partners. From there, each partner submitted projects to Telefilm for consideration by the decision jury.  In all, 38 feature films and seven narrative web projects were selected – click here for the list of selcted projects.“We were able to increase our support from 15 to 45 projects this year because of the...