New doc fund for Canadians
Hot Docs and Canwest have announced two separate funds to assist Canuck doc-makers. A $3 million completion fund will bestow up to $100 grand to productions companies with a Canadian broadcast license for specific projects. In addition, there is a $1 million development fund that designed as a loan program:
"The Fund will provide no-interest loans ranging from $10,000 - $15,000 in the early development stage, when projects are at the highest risk and may have not yet secured a market partner."Canwest is Canada's largest media company. Hot Docs will administer the fund.
Toronto-based Hot Docs will open with Sacha Gervasi's Sundance hit "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" (pictured) on April 17. Also screening is Kurt Kueene's "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father" which takes on Canada's controversial's criminal extradition policy by way of a recent tragic kidnapping.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
Sounds like the perfect opportunity for the long awaited remake of Strange Brew.
Posted by: Bob & Doug | 4/8/2008 12:53:32 PM