Telefilm And Rogers Announce Feature Doc Funding...
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Participating filmmakers will receive funding support for the production or post-production stage of their project, as the goal of the Program is to broaden both the slate and audiences for Canadian feature-length documentaries produced for commercial screening in Canada, while jointly financing a number of French- and English-language projects likely to be successful in Canada and abroad.
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"The feature films selected this year testify once again to Canadian documentary filmmakers' spirit of innovation and creativity."
Launched in 2005-2006 as a one-year pilot project, the public-private partnership was recently renewed until 2011. The program has a total budget of $4.5 million and provides funding, during production and post-production stages, for feature-length documentary projects with production budgets of $500,000 or more in French and $600,000 or more in English as well as financing for projects at the post-production stage.
English-language projects are "The David Suzuki Project"- Sturla Gunnarsson, "Genius Within: The Inner Life Of Glenn Gould"- Michele Hozer, "The Guantanamo Trap"- Thomas Wallner, "I Will Survive (Again)"- Jamie Kastner and "TuTu Much"- Elise Swerhone...