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Posted: Jan 2, 2003 CORUS ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES NEW FUNDING FOR 23 FILM PROJECTS

Congratulations to On Screen Manitoba Members Buffalo Gal Pictures and Eagle Vision for being chosen in the latest round of film projects to receive concept and script develpoment funding for 2008-2009 from Corus Entertainment!

December 15, 2008 – Toronto, Canada - Corus Entertainment is pleased to announce the latest round of film projects to receive concept and script development funding for 2008-2009 through the Corus Made with Pay Fund. This quarter, 23 feature film projects have been selected to receive funding.

Among the recipients, bestselling author Miriam Toews, a Governor General’s Literary Award winner, and screenwriting partner Semi Chellas (Murder on Her Mind) will receive funding for the feature film adaptation of Toews’ most recent novel, The Flying Troutmans. Sea Witches, a Shaftesbury Films/MacRury Here Productions project with screenwriter Malcolm MacRury (Deadwood, ZOS: Zone of Separation) is also a recipient of Corus Made with Pay funding.

Administered by Movie Central, this fund provides financial support to Canadian television and film productions at various stages of development. The Corus Made with Pay Fund approves funding for film projects on a quarterly basis. The next deadline for new applications is January 9, 2009. Funding for television series is determined on an ongoing basis.

The latest film projects approved for funding are:

Kush Kush In The Bush: Bollywood Comes to the Trailer Park
Buffalo Gal Pictures Development Inc./Femmina Films Inc./Diamonds to Bullets Enterprises Inc.
Screenwriter: Rebecca Sernaisie
Winnipeg, MB

Strange Love
Eagle Vision
Screenwriters: Robert Cuffley, Jason Long
Winnipeg, MB

For full list of Projects please read the full article.

Source: Corus Entertainment Press Release

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Posted: Jan 2, 2003 TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2008

TIME MAGAZINE has released their list of THE TOP 10 EVERYTHING OF 2008 and On Screen Manitoba Member Guy Maddin's movie MY WINNIPEG (produced by Buffalo Gal Pictures and Everyday Pictures) is listed at #3 in the movie category. Congratulations on this amazing achievement!

Source: Time Magazine Website

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Posted: Jan 2, 2003 NSI FEATURE FIRST TEAMS ANNOUNCED

The National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) is pleased to announce the successful filmmakers who will develop their feature film projects through the NSI Features First training program run by the National Screen Institute

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Posted: Jan 2, 2003 MAKE A DATE WITH ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET:40 YEARS OF ONE NIGHT STANDS, NOVEMBER 30

Bravo! spotlights the history of one of the world’s premiere dance companies

Toronto, ON (October 29, 2008) – Premiering Sunday, November 30 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on Bravo!, ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET: 40 YEARS OF ONE NIGHT STANDS profiles the groundbreaking ballet company that set the dance world on Prairie fire. Until two British immigrants infused the city with a shot of culture, depression-era Winnipeg was a lonesome place. In the remote Canadian Prairies, Gweneth Lloyd and Betty Hey Farrally founded Canada’s first professional ballet company. Lloyd and Farrally laid the groundwork, but it was basketball-player-turned-ballet-dancer-turned-artistic-director, Arnold Spohr, who propelled the Royal Winnipeg Ballet to its place among the world’s best.

ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET: 40 YEARS OF ONE NIGHT STANDS is produced by Merit Motion Pictures and Inside Out Productions in association with Bravo!, directed by Peabody Award Winner, Jeff McKay, and narrated by the Tony Award®-winning actor, Brent Carver.

Source: CTV Press Release

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Posted: Jan 2, 2003 The Comedy Network Raises the Roof on New Original Comedy Series HOUSE PARTY

- The Comedy Network debuts a new original comedy series, full of prairie party hijinks -

TORONTO, Oct. 22 /CNW/ - Broken beer bottles, boozy misunderstandings,compromising bets, a doppelgdnger, a missing cat, and one man, trying to keephis life and his parent's house intact. Welcome to HOUSE PARTY, a clever, newhomegrown comedy series with one story, told by five different points of view.The mayhem starts Wednesday, November 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with back to backepisodes, exclusively on The Comedy Network. HOUSE PARTY also rocks viewerson-demand at thecomedynetwork.ca, and on the go at iTunes.ca. (xx) Media Note (xx) Download photos from ctvmedia.ca/comedy.

Filmed and set in Winnipeg, HOUSE PARTY is a hilarious, six part,half-hour comedy series that follows the course of events at an intimateget-together spun into an out of control house party. Each episode focuses ona different character, and his or her version of what transpires at the party.The first and last episodes follow party host Adam (Michal Grajewski - FalconBeach, 2030 CE), who is charged with house-sitting his parent's house andtheir beloved cat. Subsequent episodes focus on Adam's high school crush Megan(Sarah Podemski - Cry of the Owl, The Border); foul-mouthed Allison (GraceLynn Kung - Blue State, Away From Her); the overly zealous Mandy (MelanieLeishman - Darcy's Wild Life, Pure Evil); and Eric (Dylan Taylor - CharlieBartlett, The Jane Show), Adam's best friend and the man responsible forinviting half of Winnipeg.

Source: Comedy Network Press Release

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Posted: Jan 2, 2003 11 English and French language projects to receive financing: Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program

Congratulations to On Screen Manitoba Member Jeremy Torrie!

Montreal, October 20, 2008 – Telefilm Canada, together with APTN, is
delighted to announce that 11 English and French language projects have been
selected to receive financing from the recently announced Featuring
Aboriginal Stories Program.

The October 2nd deadline for application submission saw 25 projects
submitted across the country. A jury of national and international industry
professionals assembled in Toronto on October 16, 2008 to deliberate before
making their formal recommendation to Telefilm. The formal announcement
was made at the 9th Annual ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival to a
group of industry professionals from the Aboriginal community at large.


English Language Projects:

  • Lost in La Mancha Chaotik Kreative Inc., (Jeremy Torrie & Tanya Brunel),
    Western
  • Anthony Walsh Story (The), Kulchera Matson, Western
  • Hidden Path (The), Footpath Productions Inc., (Richard Story), Ontario
  • In Dios, (Andrew Genaille and Eric Johsnon), Western
  • Last Place (The), Big Soul Productions Inc., (Laura Milliken), Ontario
  • Mush Hole, Screen Siren Pictures, (Lisa Jackson), Western
  • Repatriation, Dark Thunder Productions, (Dennis Jackson), Western
  • Tombs, (Marie Clements), Western

Media enquiries:

Téléfilm Canada (médias francophones)
Mélanie Larente
larentm@telefilm.gc.ca
(514) 283-0838 #2014 ou 1 800 567-0890

Telefilm Canada (Anglophone media)
Alejandra Sosa
sosaa@telefilm.gc.ca
(416) 973-6436 #2505 or 1 800 463-4607

APTN Sylvia Kolopenuk
skolopenuk@aptn.ca  (
204) 947-9331 # 339

Source: Telefilm Press Release

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