Hot Docs and Netflix have revealed the five Canadian documentary projects that will share Cad 175,000 as part of the Hot Docs Incubator program, the latest instalment of the Canadian Storytellers Project. These five projects will each receive Cad 35,000.
The program, designed to ignite developing doc projects that show creative and market potential, will also engage filmmakers in a series of intensive workshops focused on story, market preparedness, and career or company building.
Work-in-progress scenes of the projects will screen to international decision-makers and Industry delegates at next year’s edition of the Hot Docs film festival.
Heidi Tao Yang, Hot Docs’ director of funds and labs, said: “What makes this new program special is that it expands the scope of support to an underserved group of filmmakers who are mid-career, and the level of these intensive sessions will reflect on the building blocks they have already established. These dynamic, authentic,...
The program, designed to ignite developing doc projects that show creative and market potential, will also engage filmmakers in a series of intensive workshops focused on story, market preparedness, and career or company building.
Work-in-progress scenes of the projects will screen to international decision-makers and Industry delegates at next year’s edition of the Hot Docs film festival.
Heidi Tao Yang, Hot Docs’ director of funds and labs, said: “What makes this new program special is that it expands the scope of support to an underserved group of filmmakers who are mid-career, and the level of these intensive sessions will reflect on the building blocks they have already established. These dynamic, authentic,...
- 4/20/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The New York-based Visit Films has acquired world rights excluding Canada to the video store dramedy I Like Movies, which will debut as part of the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film was co-written and directed by first-time filmmaker Chandler Levack who negotiated the deal with Ryan Kampe of Visit Films alongside producer Lindsay Blair Goeldner and co-producer Evan Dubinsky.
Set in Burlington, Ontario, in 2003, the film follows hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller, who dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In order to raise the hefty tuition fee, he gets his dream job at the local video store, Sequels. Wracked with anxiety about his future, Lawrence begins alienating the most important people in his life, including his best friend, Matt Macarchuck, and his single mother, Terri, all while developing a complicated friendship with his older female manager, Alana.
The film was co-written and directed by first-time filmmaker Chandler Levack who negotiated the deal with Ryan Kampe of Visit Films alongside producer Lindsay Blair Goeldner and co-producer Evan Dubinsky.
Set in Burlington, Ontario, in 2003, the film follows hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller, who dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In order to raise the hefty tuition fee, he gets his dream job at the local video store, Sequels. Wracked with anxiety about his future, Lawrence begins alienating the most important people in his life, including his best friend, Matt Macarchuck, and his single mother, Terri, all while developing a complicated friendship with his older female manager, Alana.
- 8/10/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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