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Developing Canadian talent – Official Languages Activities program
Four fiction feature projects supported
by Écrire au long and Feature It! reach the first draft phase
Montreal, March 13, 2008 – Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce that four projects from the first phases of pre-development of the Écrire au long and Feature It! initiatives were selected to participate in Initiative 3 – Project Development. “Telefilm wishes to bring a great diversity of voices, sources and stories to our screens, said Michel Pradier, Director – French Operations and Quebec Office at Telefilm. “That is why our office is proud to support the development of creative talent from regional and official-language minority communities. Their contribution to our culture is essential.”
Écrire au long and Feature It! are supported as part of Telefilm’s Official Languages Activities program (OLA).
Écrire au long is intended for French-language scriptwriters and producers outside Montreal and outside Quebec, while Feature It! is meant for English-language scriptwriters and producers in Quebec. The projects selected for Initiative 3 were chosen from the 15 projects that benefited from a pre-development phase, which included a writing workshop, market training, fiction feature film training and a rewriting period with the support of a script advisor. Each of the selected projects will receive a maximum development assistance of $20,000.
Écrire au long (French-language scriptwriters and producers, outside Montreal and outside Quebec)
Mort raisonnable, script by Sébastien Gagné and Julie Gauthier
Rimouski (Quebec), Production Digitale, producer: Isabelle Lécuyer
Trajectoire, script by Nadine Valcin
Ottawa (Ontario), Balestra Productions, producer: Mark Chatel
Feature It! (English-language scriptwriters and producers, Quebec)
Sweet Blood, script by Elza Kephart
Montreal, Bad Seed Pictures, producer: Elza Kephart
Cousin Eddie, script by Boris Rodriguez
Montreal, Band with Pictures, producer: Michael Solomon
Developing and promoting the Canadian audiovisual industry
Telefilm Canada is a federal cultural agency dedicated to developing and promoting the Canadian audiovisual industry. Telefilm provides financial support to the private sector to create distinctively Canadian productions that appeal to domestic and international audiences. The Corporation also administers the funding programs of the Canadian Television Fund.
Media inquiries:
Douglas Chow, Deputy Director, Strategic Communications
(514) 283-6363 or 1-800-567-0890, chowd@telefilm.gc.ca
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