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Harold Greenberg Fund Announces Support for Script Development Projects

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  • Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund announced today from the Canadian Media Production Association’s Prime Time in Ottawa the support of 40 new script development projects and the appointment of award-winning screenwriter and producer Suzette Couture as co-chair of the Board of Directors. The Harold Greenberg Fund is an organization dedicated to supporting independent film production in all stages of development.

    “With first features from established literary voices like novelist Sheila Heti and playwright Hannah Moscovitch, the first English-language features by Academy Award® nominees Kim Nguyen, Luc Déry and Kim McGraw as well as new projects by celebrated Canadian directors such as Sudz Sutherland, our latest round of supported projects illustrates what an exciting time this is for Canadian film,” said John Galway, the Fund’s English-Language Program President. “We are extremely proud to support the nation’s finest filmmakers and thrilled to have Suzette Couture leading the charge as our new Board of Directors co-chair.”

     Writer-producer of Canadian classics such as The Man Who Lost Himself and The City, Suzette Couture has been named co-chair after more than 10 years on the English-language committee of the Harold Greenberg Fund. Couture brings a wealth of extensive experience in both the creative and business sides of the film and television industry to the role. Couture won her fourth screenwriting Gemini Award for the CTV movie After the Harvest.  She was awarded the Humanitas Prize for the CBS miniseries Haven, and her CBS miniseries Jesus was nominated for an Emmy. As a partner in Sarrazin Couture Entertainment, she won the Golden Reel Award for highest box office for her first Canadian feature, La Florida. She is now writing the feature film adaptation of 419, the Giller Prize winning novel. Couture succeeds Bryn Matthews, who had served as the board’s co-chair since 2024. Also joining the Board of Directors is Corrie Coe, Senior Vice-President, Independent Production, Bell Media.

    The board of directors of the Harold Greenberg Fund has 14 members drawn from the film and television industry. The Fund operates two financing programs – English and French – each with its own financing components. The programs are respectively administered by a committee of seven members of the board of directors of the Harold Greenberg Fund.

    Below is a list of the 40 new script development projects announced by Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund:

    Story Optioning:

    The Jane Austen Marriage Manual

    DCP Film & TV Inc.

    Screenwriter: Kim Izzo

    Ballistics

    Federgreen Entertainment Inc.

    Screenwriter: D.W. Wilson

    The Secret World of Og

    Honalee Productions Inc.

    Screenwriter: Robin Hays

    Ticknor

    January Films Ltd.

    Screenwriter: Sheila Heti

    Arranged

    Marcon Pictures Inc.

    Screenwriter:TBD

    Telling Tales (Baryshnikov Project)

    Lumino Pictures Inc.

    Screenwriter: David Weaver

    “Y”: A Novel

    Quarterlife Crisis Productions Inc.

    Screenwriter: TBD

    The Outlander

    Strada Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Esta Spalding

    The Mistress of Nothing

    Markham Street Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Elke Town

    Treatment to First Draft:

    Telling Tales (Baryshnikov Project)

    Lumino Pictures Inc.

    Screenwriter: David Weaver

    A Hell of a Harvest

    Scythia Films Inc.

    Screenwriters: Simon Ennis and Josh Peace

    Cellist of Sarajevo

    Strident Films, Inc.

    Screenwriter: Don McKellar

    Seventeen Days

    Darius Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Gerald Wexler

    First to Second Draft:

    The Feast

    3 Legged Dog Films Ltd.

    Screenwriter: Ed Gass-Donnelly

    Far To Go

    House of Films Inc.

    Screenwriters: Hannah Moscovitch and Rosa Laborde

    Wrecking Ball

    Mad Samurai Productions

    Screenwriter: Daniel DiMarco

    The Mistress of Nothing

    Markham Street Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Elke Town

    Earthly Justice

    Media-Max Inc.

    Screenwriter: Avrum Jacobson

    Happiness

    Prospector Films

    Screenwriter: Johnny Ma

    Entanglement

    Resonance Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Jason Filiatrault

    Four One Nine

    Sarrazin Productions Inc.

    Screenwriter: Suzette Couture

    Remedy in Paris

    Screen Siren Pictures Inc.

    Screenwriter: Ian Iqbal Rashid

    Operation Red Dog

    Hungry Eyes Film & Television Inc.

    Screenwriters: Sudz Sutherland and Jennifer Holness

    Second to Final Draft:

    Jumbo’s Clown Room

    Buffalo Gal Pictures Development Inc.

    Screenwriter: Alison Murray

    Stealing Is Bad

    Okita Lapeyre Pictures Inc.

    Screenwriter: Jason Lapeyre

    The Invisibles

    Quadrant Motion Pictures Inc.

    Screenwriters: Andrew Currie and Colin Aussant

    Doubles With Slight Pepper

    Red Stone Revival Productions Inc.

    Screenwriter: Ian Harnarine

    Ava Lee

    Strada Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Karen Walton

    Red Snow

    True West Films Ltd.

    Screenwriter: Marie Clements

    Closet Monster

    Rhombus Media

    Screenwriter: Stephen Dunn

    Polish and Packaging:

    You Belong To Me

    Uno Bravo Inc.

    Screenwriter: Spencer Maybee

    Torchbearer

    Alcina Pictures

    Screenwriter: David Bradley Halls

    How to Go to a Wedding Alone

    Gearshift Films

    Screenwriter: Renuka Jeyapalan

    Origin of the World

    Item 7 Inc.

    Screenwriter: Kim Nguyen

    A Worthy Companion

    micro scope Inc.

    Screenwriters: Jason Sanchez and Carlos Sanchez

    A Good Girl Story

    Engine Pictures Inc.

    Screenwriters: Sean Garrity and Jonathan Williams

    Everything Sucks

    Ilana C Frank Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman

    Beale Street

    Euclid 431 Pictures Inc.

    Screenwriter: Nathan Morlando

    Maudie

    Screen Door Inc./Rink Rat Productions Inc.

    Screenwriter: Sherry White

    Sweetness in the Belly

    Sienna Films Inc.

    Screenwriter: Laura Phillips