Telefilm investing $17.8M in 12 French-language feature films

Telefilm Canada announced last week the titles of 12 feature-length films receiving a total of $17.75 million in funding under its Production Program for the French market, in both the big-budget and low-budget streams. The projects selected during the first application round for this year include comedies, dramas, historical dramas and children’s films. Of the 12 films, two are Canada-France coproductions and one is a Canada-Spain coproduction. The full list of films is available here. The production funding for the selected projects represents 65 per cent of Telefilm’s annual budget for financing French-language films, according to a Telefilm press release. Telefilm said the...