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Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund Supports Script Development for New Projects

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  • Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund announced today its support for 22 film projects through its Script Development Program. The slate includes new and already-announced projects in all phases of script development, from story optioning and first and second drafts, to polish and packaging, and final-drafts.

    Included among the projects are a treatment by Michael Dowse (FUBAR, Goon), the story optioning of Joseph Boyden’s Scotiabank Giller Prize winning novel Through Black Spruce, the second draft of a feature-film adaptation of Miriam Toews’ Governor General’s Award-winning novel A Complicated Kindness, and first features by celebrated Globe and Mail columnist Johanna Schneller and acclaimed television writer Matt Watts (Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays).

    “We’re proud to get behind this incredibly talented group of Canadian writers working on these exciting and important films,” said John Galway, President, English-Language Program, The Harold Greenberg Fund. “Between the adaptations of acclaimed novels and wholly new concepts by unique new and established voices, we are thrilled with the calibre of Canadian writing talent working today.”

    Supported projects:

    Story Optioning:

    The Purchase

    Northwood Media Inc. & 3 Legged Dog Films

    Author: Linda Spalding

    Screenwriter: Ed Gass-Donnelly

    Heidegger Stairwell

    Motel Pictures Inc. & January Films

    Author: Kayt Burgess

    Screenwriter: Scott Smith

    Through Black Spruce

    Buffalo Gal Development Inc. & Kistikan Pictures

    Author: Joseph Boyden

    Screenwriter: Barbara Samuels

    What You Need

    Picture Plant Limited

    Author: Eliza Clarke

    Screenwriters: Sherry White and William MacGillivray

    Four One Nine

    Sarrazin Productions Inc.

    Author: Will Ferguson

    Screenwriter: Suzette Couture

    Who Killed Ty Conn

    Ilana C Frank Films Inc.

    Author: Linden MacIntyre & Theresa Burke

    First to Second Draft:

    Indian Horse

    Screen Siren Pictures Ltd.

    Screenwriter: Dennis Foon

    A Complicated Kindness

    Sienna Films Inc. & Einstein Bros Inc.

    Screenwriters: Miriam Toews and Erik Rutherford

    A Hell of a Harvest

    Scythia Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Simon Ennis

    Polish and Packaging:

    The Waiting Room

    Timelapse Pictures & Gearshift Films

    Screenwriter/Director: Igor Drlaca

    Way of the Sword

    Standing 8 Productions Inc. & Rob Heydon Productions Inc.

    Screenwriters: Bretten Hannam and Chaz Thorne

    Director: Chaz Thorne

    Sailor Girl

    Markham Street Productions Inc.

    Screenwriters: Johanna Schneller and Anita Doron

    Director: Anita Doron

    Southpaw

    Mutual St. Productions & Starling Road Productions

    Screenwriters: John Reardon and Jesse Moss

    Director: Charles Officer

    Red Snow

    True West Films

    Screenwriter/Director: Marie Clements

    Second to Final Draft:

    Out Late

    Palomar (3090-5178 Quebec Inc.)

    Screenwriters: Thomas Michael and Paolo Mancini

    Riddled

    Sienna Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Adriana Maggs

    Ghost Train

    H is4 Productions Inc.

    Screenwriter: Stefan Scaini

    Mr. Epiphany

    New Real Films

    Screenwriter: Matt Watts

    Wrecking Ball

    Mad Samurai Productions Inc.

    Screenwriter: Daniel DiMarco

    Stupid White Guy

    Rob Heydon Holdings Inc.

    Screenwriter: Alex Epstein

    Shadowman

    Middle Child Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Howard Wiseman

    Treatment to First Draft:

    Untitled Michael Dowse Project

    Cardinal Film Inc.

    Screenwriter: Michael Dowse