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Telefilm Canada supports 13 English-language projects through the Canada Feature Film Fund
Montreal, November 15, 2006 - Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce
the financing of 13 English-language feature films from across the country,
through the selective component of the national and regional feature film production
programs of the Canada Feature Film Fund, as well as the Low Budget Independent
Feature Film Assistance Program.
National production projects
Québec region
Emotional Arithmetic (Producers: Production Arithmetic Québec
inc. - Suzanne Girard, Arithmetic Ontario Productions inc. - Anna Stratton;
Writers: Jefferson Lewis, Paolo Barzman; Director: Paolo Barzman)
Melanie Winters returns home from the mental institution to play hostess to
two childhood friends who bring with them memories of their internment in concentration
camps as teenagers.
Ontario & Nunavut region
All Hat (Producer: New Real Films Inc. - Jennifer Jonas; Writer: Brad
Smith; Director: Leonard Farlinger ) is based on Brad Smith's novel of the same
name and tells the story of Ray Dokes, a charming ex-ballplayer, who returns
home from jail to discover the rural landscape of his childhood transformed.
Ray must find a way to stop Sonny, Ray's nemesis and the spoiled heir to a thoroughbred
dynasty, from his grand plan to turn the farmland into a subdivision. One false
move and Ray will land back in jail, but he comes up with a plan to stop Sonny
and right some wrongs.
Western region
Stone Angel (Producers: Liz Jarvis, Kari Skogland; Writer/Director:
Kari Skogland) is based on the much-loved and critically acclaimed Margaret
Laurence novel of the same name. Hagar Shipley is aged and ailing - but would
rather die than go into a nursing home. The witty, irascible and fiercely proud
Hagar, faced with the prospect of a nursing home, sets out on a preposterous
journey in search of the safe haven of an abandoned ocean side house she remembers
from happier times.
Newton and Leo (Producers: Menlo Park Movies Ltd. - Dean English, Karen
Powell, Marc Stephenson; Writers: George Toles, Daegan Fryklind; Director: Jesse
Rosensweet) is an animated, mythical reworking of modernity's legendary inventor
Thomas Alva Edison. Leo is turned into an electrical boy by his father, Thomas
Galileo Newton, in this comedy-adventure set in the expressionistic-Victorian,
cinematic fantasy world of Pickerton Park.
Regional production projects
Atlantic region
Pushing Up Daisies (Producers: Standing 8 Productions - Chaz Thorne,
Bill Niven, John Watson, Pen Densham; Writer/Director: Chaz Thorne) is the story
of Oliver Zinck and how his life changes when he inherits a Nova Scotian funeral
home from his estranged father. Completely in debt, Oliver discovers that by
creating corpses in his own way and then providing funeral services, he can
make some fast cash. Pushing Up Daisies is a dark comedic exploration of the
depths of greed, ambition and desire.
Ontario & Nunavut region
Amal (Producer: Rickshaw Films Ltd. - Executive Producers: Robin Cass,
Peter Starr, Producers: David Miller, Steven Bray; Writer: Shaun Mehta and Ritchie
Mehta; Director: Ritchie Mehta ) is a based on the short film by Shaun Mehta
of the same name and tells the story of an auto rickshaw driver, who attempts
to do the right thing following a tragic incident with a young beggar girl.
Breakfast With Scot (Producer: Miracle Pictures Inc. - Paul Brown; Writer:
Sean Reycraft; Director: Laurie Lynd) is a contemporary comedy about a 'straight'
gay couple whose lives are turned upside down when they become the reluctant,
temporary guardians of Scot, a recently orphaned and flamboyant 11-year-old
boy.
Young People F*!@king (Producers: Copperheart Entertainment - Steve
Hoban; Tracey Boulton; Writer: Martin Gero & Aaron Abrams; Director: Martin
Gero) is a wickedly funny sex comedy about five twenty-something couples who,
over the course of one night in Toronto, try to have some seemingly straightforward
sex but run into problems along the way.
Western region
Normal (Producer: Normal Film Company Inc. - Andrew Boutilier; Writers:
Travis McDonald, Carl Bessai; Director: Carl Bessai) An accident in the past
causes ripples of tragedy in the lives of the people connected to it, in particular
the victim's bereaved mother, his best friend, and the middle aged man responsible
for the crash. Normal explores the fragility and humanity of people who are
searching for redemption.
Walk All Over Me (Producer: Chaos A Film Company - Carolyn McMaster;
Writers: Robert Cuffley, Jason Long; Director: Robert Cuffly) is a darkly comedic
thriller laced with love, latex and empowerment. Alberta, a twenty-something
cashier, moves to Vancouver into the home of her former babysitter (dominatrix-for-hire
Celene) and rescues a handsome "john" accused of stealing a fortune
from his crooked boss/ex-best friend.
Low-Budget Independent Feature Film Assistance Program
Western region (post production)
Acts of Imagination (Producers: Springate Combs Inc. - Caroline Combs,
Michael Springate; Writer: Michael Springate; Director: Caroline Combs) chronicles
the loves of brother/sister immigrants from the Ukraine through their relationships
with others.
The Green Chain (Producers: I Love Trees Productions Inc. - Mark Leiren-Young,
Donna Wong-Juliani, Tony Wosk; Writer/Director: Mark Leiren-Young) is a powerful,
funny and thought provoking film about the conflict between loggers and environmentalists,
people on both sides of the battle who love trees - and are willing to risk
anything to protect their personal visions of the forest and our planet.
Immigrant (Producers: Japanese Polka Dancing Films Ltd. - Bojan Bodruzic,
Shirley Vercruysse; Writer/Director: Bojan Bodruzic) follows two parallel stories
about Bosnian immigrants in Canada who fled their homeland to escape the war.
The first looks at the tumultuous relationships between a Bosnian filmmaker
and his Canadian girlfriend; while the second is about a widower, who has a
hard time letting go of his past.
Developing and promoting the Canadian audiovisual industry
Telefilm Canada is a federal cultural agency dedicated to the development and
promotion of 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.
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Media inquiries:
Douglas Chow, Deputy Director, Strategic Communications
(514) 283-6363 or 1-800-567-0890, chowd@telefilm.gc.ca
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