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7 Canadian Docs Get $625,000 From Telefilm and Rogers

(Via CNW Group) Congratulations to the teams producing the seven feature-length documentaries to receive funding support, for production or post-production, under the Theatrical Documentary Program! Namely:

  • Nettie Wild’s Faultlines
  • Mila Aung-Thwin’s Let There Be Light
  • Rama Rau’s League of Exotique Dancers
  • Jamie Kastner’s The Skyjacker’s Tale
  • Léa Pool’s En attendant maman
  • Francis Legault’s Le Goût du pays
  • Michel La Veaux’s Hôtel La Louisane

The program is a public-private partnership between  Telefilm Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds. Since its start in 2007, it has supported 54 documentaries with over $7 million.

Just looking at the stories behind the films shows how fascinating a documentary can really be. Here’s a quick sampling of the English-language projects: “Let There Be Light follows the scientists who are obsessed with solving the energy crisis before our time runs out. ”  Among others, “in Vancouver, B.C., an entrepreneur with a dream believes he can also create a miniature sun on earth, but faster and cheaper.” (Where else but Vancouver do people think this way?) League of Exotique Dancers is “an intimate, character-driven film that looks into vintage burlesque’s world of fun, frolic and feathers while uncovering the stories of poverty, racism and sexism that was rampant under all that glitter.” The Skyjacker’s Tale tells how “Wrongly convicted of murder, a man hijacks a plane with 200 passengers and gets away with it. Thirty years on, he’s still at large . . . Suddenly as the world’s geo-political landscape shifts, his safe asylum is no longer so safe . . . “

Keep an eye out for any or all of these.

 

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