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Canada Feature Film Fund 2005-06
Quebec Office Selects Seven Features for Funding

March 29, 2005 - Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce its first investment decisions for fiscal 2005﷓06 under the selective component of the Canada Feature Film Fund.

The Quebec office received 32 French-language and nine English-language submissions for the January 17, 2005, application deadline. Of these, seven very promising projects have been selected for support: six in French, and one in English that will be funded through the regional envelope earmarked for English-language projects requesting less than $1 million.

“We received so many excellent projects that more than half of the funding available for the year has been committed,” said Michel Pradier, Director of French-language Operations and the Quebec Office at Telefilm Canada. “The number of submissions was far beyond what we expected, clearly demonstrating the industry’s creative vitality.”

In view of this situation, the October application deadline for projects in French has been cancelled.

French-language projects

English-language project

Next deadlines for production applications:

April 11 for both English- and French-language films
October 3 for English-language films only

Information:
Jeanine Basile, Manager – Communications and Public Affairs
(514) 283-6363 or (800) 567-0890 basilej@telefilm.gc.ca

Synopsis

Les 3 P’tits Cochons, Patrick Huard
During visits to their mother’s hospital bedside, three brothers discuss their shared obsession with sex, brag about their adulterous adventures and trade tips on keeping them from their wives. When the cat finally gets out of the bag, the trio faces tough choices… but will they give up their mistresses?

Annie croyait aux esprits, Denis Chouinard
After serving ten years for killing her lover Marco, Annie regains custody of her daughter, but the girl wants nothing to do with her. Desperate and haunted by memories of Marco, Annie sinks into growing confusion between past and present. Surprises await when she returns to the island where the murder took place.

Cheech, Patrice Sauvé
There’s no lack of suspects when the owner of an escort service is found dead in his office. Who dunnit? Maxime, his assistant? Cheech, a competing agency owner? Stéphanie, a depressed, suicidal escort? Olivier, a client? Olivier’s friend Sophie, another escort? And to think it all began with a simple robbery…

Comme tout le monde, Pierre-Paul Renders
After winning the Mr. Average TV game show, Jalil becomes the unwitting pawn of a market research firm. But life turns the tables and soon he’s a media star and opinion leader, upsetting the polls and sparking a free-choice movement that alters the course of the presidential race. And to top it all, he wins Claire’s heart.

Maurice Richard, Charles Binamé
Montréal, 1955, the Forum Riot. Thousands of French Canadians rampage along St. Catherine Street, roaring unconditional support for their idol Maurice Richard, who has just been suspended. The remarkable story of a shy man whose determination to win and flair for scoring came to symbolize an entire generation determined to affirm itself.

La Rage de l’ange, Dan Bigras
Having survived miserable childhoods, three young people now face the lawless brutality of the urban jungle. One belongs to a Latino gang, the second is a gay artist and the third, an incest victim, works as a prostitute.

Puffball, Nicolas Roeg
This haunting thriller is the story of Liffey and her husband Richard, whose lives are almost destroyed by infidelity, the paranormal and bad weather when they purchase a remote, dilapidated cottage in the English countryside.