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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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.

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Sounds like the perfect opportunity for the long awaited remake of Strange Brew.

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