On Friday, the first full day of the Toronto Intl. Film Festival’s industry confab, Canadian producers received good news on the financing front.
The CBC Breaking Barriers Film Fund, a new, three-year Can$7.5 million fund ($6.2 million) geared targeting underrepresented Canadian creators with at least one feature and industry cred, tapped the next three pics receiving a boost.
Marie Clements’ Afghanistan-set escape drama “Red Snow,” Danishka Esterhazy’s boarding-school-set sci-fi chiller “Level 16,” and Deanne Foley and Rosemary House’s “An Audience of Chairs,” which adapts Joan Clark’s award-winning 2005 novel of the same name, are all also supported by Telefilm Canada, as well as other government and private financing.
“Chairs” recently wrapped production in Newfoundland and Sudbury, Ontario; producers on the project are Jill Knox-Gosse and Lynne Wilson (Wreckhouse Prods.) and Eric Jordan and Paul Stephens (The Film Works). “Level 16,” produced by Markham Street Films’ Judy Holm, Michael McNamara and Sarah Jackson, lenses...
The CBC Breaking Barriers Film Fund, a new, three-year Can$7.5 million fund ($6.2 million) geared targeting underrepresented Canadian creators with at least one feature and industry cred, tapped the next three pics receiving a boost.
Marie Clements’ Afghanistan-set escape drama “Red Snow,” Danishka Esterhazy’s boarding-school-set sci-fi chiller “Level 16,” and Deanne Foley and Rosemary House’s “An Audience of Chairs,” which adapts Joan Clark’s award-winning 2005 novel of the same name, are all also supported by Telefilm Canada, as well as other government and private financing.
“Chairs” recently wrapped production in Newfoundland and Sudbury, Ontario; producers on the project are Jill Knox-Gosse and Lynne Wilson (Wreckhouse Prods.) and Eric Jordan and Paul Stephens (The Film Works). “Level 16,” produced by Markham Street Films’ Judy Holm, Michael McNamara and Sarah Jackson, lenses...
- 9/9/2017
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety - Film News
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