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Writer's First Program / Programme d'aide à l'écriture de scénarios
Telefilm Canada Approves 19 Projects for Fiscal 2006-07
Montréal, July 27, 2006 - Telefilm Canada's Quebec office has
announced a commitment to fund 19 promising screenwriting projects at the treatment
or first draft stage. Funded through the Writer's First Program/Programme d'aide
à l'écriture de scenarios (PAS), 16 of them are in French and
three in English. Several of the selected projects are by well-known names that
include Mario Bolduc (Le Dernier tunnel), Micheline Lanctôt (Les
Guerriers) and Sébastien Rose (La Vie avec mon père).
Launched in 2000 as part of the Canada Feature Film Fund, Writer's First/PAS
is intended to develop and retain a pool of creative, talented and experienced
screenwriters, and to produce a bank of Canadian feature film scripts with strong
box-office potential. The program encourages creative renewal and professional
development while seeking to ensure that Canada's cultural, linguistic and regional
diversity is reflected in the resulting films.
To preserve the confidentiality of the decision-making process, only the writers'
names are made public at stage 1 (Outline to Treatment), since projects supported
at this stage may apply for further funding at stage 2 (Treatment to First Draft).
From Outline to Treatment
| Writers working in French |
| Mario Bolduc |
| Jean Châteauvert |
| Isabelle Hébert |
| Gilles Noël |
| Johanne Prégent |
| Sébastien Rose |
| Antoine Saito |
| Pascal Sanchez |
| Jacques Thivierge |
| Ziad Touma and Stéphane Dompierre |
Treatment to First Draft
| French-language projects |
Writers |
| BIOGRAPHE (LE) |
Matt Holland and Richard Lachance |
| BOUCHERIE HALAL |
Babek Aliassa |
| CHEMIN DE LA REINE (LE) |
Lucie Godbout |
| CROISADE DES SARAZIN (LA) |
Michael Vincent Moore, Dave Peuvion and Pierre Billon |
| SUBLIME COURAGE DES VAINCUS (LE) |
Louis-Alexandre Martin and Danièle Desrosiers |
| SUZIE |
Micheline Lanctôt |
| English-language projects |
Writers |
| ALTERNATIVE (THE) |
Alexander Epstein |
| ROMEO AND ROMEO |
Leopold St-Pierre and Erik Virtanen |
| SCHOOLBOY (THE) |
Seymour Blicker |
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, chowd@telefilm.gc.ca
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