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Telefilm Canada green lights five feature film development projects by English-speaking screenwriters
Montréal, November 18, 2008 – Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce the five English-speaking screenwriters selected for support through the Feature It! initiative. A key aim of this initiative is to expand the pool of talent working in English in Quebec. The selected writers have received a predevelopment advance and will attend a four-day writing workshop in Montréal, November 15-18. In addition, they will have access to a script advisor as they rewrite their projects over the following eight weeks.
The five highly diverse and original projects selected are:
Projects selected for predevelopment phase
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Writer(s)
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Vacationship
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Cynthia Night
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Sex Tape
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Shane Simmons
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Backtrack
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Joel Newman
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Krakovian Nose
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Anna Fuerstenburg
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Good Enough Mother
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Alana Cymerman
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Telefilm Canada introduced Feature It! in 2006, with financial support from the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Interdepartmental Partnership with Official-Language Communities (IPOLC). Since then, it has backed close to a dozen English-language fiction feature film projects submitted in response to calls for projects by Canadian creators.
For full details on Feature It! and on Écrire au long, a similar initiative for French-language projects outside Quebec, visit www.telefilm.gc.ca
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 Canada Feature Film Fund, the Canadian Television Fund and the Canada New Media Fund.
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Media enquiries:
Alejandra Sosa, Communications Officer and Press attaché
(416) 973-6436 # 2505 or 1 800 463-4607, sosaa@telefilm.gc.ca
Renseignements pour les médias:
Mélanie Larente, Attachée de presse
(514) 283-6363 # 2014 ou 1 800 567-0890, larentm@telefilm.gc.ca
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