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Industry Advisory
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Industry advisory - Telefilm Canada announces English CFFF Development
& Writers First decisions
Montreal, April 22, 2009 – Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce that 83 English-language projects have received financing from the development component of the Canada Feature Film Fund (CFFF).
Telefilm’s Writers First program, whose intent is to develop and retain a pool of creative and talented screenwriters as well as a bank of screenplays that are likely to succeed at the box office, has financed 16 English-language projects from its two phases: Outline to Treatment and Treatment to First Draft.
Development program – Canada Feature Film Fund
Atlantic Region
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Project
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Screenwriter
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Production Company
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(The) Adventures of Painless Parker
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Dennis Foon
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Kelaur Productions Inc. & Dream Street Development Corp.
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All the Wrong Reasons
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Gia Milani
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Shore Road Pictures Inc.
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(The) Bugman
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Warren Jeffries
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Slate Development Ltd.
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Cape Enrage
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Jeremy Bouchard
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Big Motion Pictures Limited & Suki Films Inc.
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(The) Colony of Unrequited Dreams
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Justin Simms
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Pearl Productions Inc.
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Dirty Sweet
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Sheri Elwood
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IMX Communications Inc.
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Dot’s Will
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Scott Simpson
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Playmaker Films Inc.
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Dry Swallow
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Joel Hynes
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Kickham East Productions Inc.
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Involuntary Donation
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Greg Jackson
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Gorgeous Mistake Productions Inc.
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Little Summer Forever
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Jody Richardson
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Picture Plant Ltd. & Get Set Films Inc.
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Overtime
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Brent Shepard
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Dream Street Development Corp.
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Suburban Zombie Christmas (in 3D)
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Michael Melski & Chris Cuthbertson
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Amazing Films & Cineast Screen
Development Ltd.
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Whirligig
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Michael Amo
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Two East Productions Inc. & Standing 8 Productions Inc.
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Ontario & Nunavut Regions
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Project
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Screenwriter
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Production company
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Barney’s Version
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Michael Konyves
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Serendipity Point Films Inc.
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Beat the World
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Robert Adetuyi
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Inner City Films Development Inc
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Echo
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Noel Baker
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APB Pictures Inc.
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Helpless
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Morwyn Brebner
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Foundry Films Inc.
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Hidden
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David Shamoon
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The Film Works
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House Rules
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Semi Chellas
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Four Seasons Productions Inc.
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Hungry Girl
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Katherine Collins
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Copperheart Entertainment Inc.
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Illiterature
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Shawn Postoff
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Javelin Pictures Inc.
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Innocent
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Mathieu Guez
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The Innocent Film Inc.
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Karma Chameleon
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Will Pascoe & Gaurav Seth
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Triptych Media Inc.
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Lie Down with Darkness
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Elan Mastai
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Lie Down with Darkness Inc.
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(The) Lizard Cage
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David Vainola
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Sienna Films Inc.
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Lookalike
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Ramona Barckert
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Silverscreen International Inc.
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Medieval
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Alexander Epstein
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Amaze Film + Television Inc.
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(An) October Gale
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Ruba Nadda
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Foundry Films Inc.
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Perfecting Chaos
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Chris Gamble
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Prospero Pictures
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Prom Knurd
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Matt Huether
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APB Pictures Inc.
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Prone
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David Ostry
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Niceville Pictures Inc.
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Pygmy Seahorse
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Rob Stewart
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Big Screen Entertainment Inc.
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Red Coat Justice
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Wyeth S. Clarkson
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Travesty Productions Inc.
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Rhéal & Rhéaume
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Pierre Sarrazin
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Sarrazin Pictures Inc.
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Rise Again
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Rob Stewart
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Big Screen Entertainment Inc.
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(The) River of Blood
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Keinan Warsame
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Dusty Foot Films Inc.
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Sea Witches
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Malcolm MacRury
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Shaftesbury Films Inc.
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Soundgirl
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Wendy “Motion” Brathwaite
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Conquering Lion Pictures Inc.
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The Lost Girls
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Andrew Piper
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Copperheart Entertainment Inc.
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The Love Child of Andy Warhol & Yoko Ono
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Frank Van Keeken
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Alcina Pictures Ltd.
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Unflinching
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Carolyn Saunders
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White Pine Pictures Inc.
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Waking Beauty
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Elyse Friedman
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January Films Limited
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Quebec Region
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Project
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Screenwriter
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Production company
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Audition (Remake)
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Domenico Salvaggio
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Melenny Productions Inc.
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All We are Saying
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Jacques Savoie
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Novem Communications
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Crosswire
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Owen Coughlan
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Silo Corporation
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(The) Gyre
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Arto Paragamian & Pierre Tremblay
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Maeder Industries Inc.
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(The) Hum
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Isabelle Raynauld (Canada) & David Pearson (United Kingdom)
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Cirrus Productions Inc.
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Looking for Group
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Ryan Sohmer
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Muse Entertainment Enterprises Inc.
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Marg the Movie
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Mary Walsh
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Cinémaginaire inc. & Morag Loves Company
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My Camino
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Sue Kenney & Bruce Pirrie
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Cirrus Productions Inc.
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Nu Shu
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Allen Hatcher
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Filmarto Inc.
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Pink Berets
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Peter Landecker
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Les Productions Equinoxe Inc.
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Terminal Care
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Karim Hussain
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Amérique Film Inc.
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White Circus
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Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
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Silo Corporation
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Whitewash
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Marc Tulin & Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais
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Microscope Inc.
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Western Region
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Project
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Screenwriter
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Production company
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Accidental Assassin
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Gary Yates
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2802031 Manitoba Inc. / 4928149 Manitoba Inc.
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Awful Slimy Creature
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Arne Olsen
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Rampage Entertainment Inc.
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Blowin’ in the Wind: The Percy Schmeiser Story
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Garfield Miller & Hilary Pryor
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May Street Productions Ltd.
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Bow Grip
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Michael St. John Smith
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Red Cedar Films Inc.
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Cherry Blossoms
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Zoe Hopkins
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Urban Rez Productions Inc.
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Come Clean
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Richard Bell
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Dilemma Productions Inc.
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(The) Dead of Winter
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Allen Hatcher
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Mystique Films Ltd. / BBR (2006) Productions Inc.
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(The) Demonstration
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Tim Carter
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Contradiction Films Inc.
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Dingo Radish
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Jeff Martel
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Stephen Onda Productions Inc.
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(The) Dowry Kings
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Belle Mott
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Submission Film Productions Inc.
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Fubar II
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Paul Spence/David Lawrence/Mike Dowse
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Busted Tranny Productions Ltd.
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Grounded
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Jennifer Little
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Clarity Films Inc.
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Home Game
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Elan Mastai
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Perfect Circle Productions Ltd.
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Hungry Hills
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Jonathan Gary Fisher
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Hungry Hills Productions Inc.
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Invaders from Mars
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Jeff Richards
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Talelight Films Inc.
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(The) Job
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Kris Elgstrand
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The Whatever Institute Inc.
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John Hunter
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Aaron Houston
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Unpaved Productions Inc.
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Junk Drawer
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Ita Margalit
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Triton Media Holdings Inc.
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Munin Gaard
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Donna-Lynne McGregor & Chris Cunningham
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Zoot Pictures Inc.
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Paradise Redrawn
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George Stroumboulopoulos and Bob Mackowycz
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0785878 BC Ltd.
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Puppet World
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Elizabeth Stewart
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Perfect Circle Productions Ltd.
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(The) Saltwater Decision
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Aubrey Nealon
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Principia Productions Ltd.
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(The) Secret Life of John McCready
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Ryan Bonder
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Insomnia Productions Inc.
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Sissiboo
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Stephen Adams
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Dreamstate Productions Limited
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Somebody Else
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David Spencer & Eric Finkel
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Finkelfilms BC Inc.
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Temple Alone
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Michael Parker
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Reunion Pictures Inc.
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(The) Visitor
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Aaron Woodley
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Creative Engine Pictures Inc.
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Wawatay
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Penny Gummerson
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Terminal City Pictures Ltd.
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Writers First – Outline to Treatment
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Project
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Screenwriter(s)
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Region
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All I want for Christmas is to Win Top Scorer
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Don Truckey
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Caring for Mr. Dekari
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Mazdak Taebi
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Celeste
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Keith Ross Leckie
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Mesopotamia
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Blake Corbet
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Western
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(The) Most Scottish Man in the World
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Iain MacLeod
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Atlantic
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(The) Murder Ballads of
Lucien LeLoup
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Jesse McKeown
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Western
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Operation Red Dog: Bayou of Pigs
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David “Sudz” Sutherland
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Return (The Sarajevo Project)
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Daryl Cloran
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Writers First – Treatment to First Draft
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Project
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Screenwriter(s)
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Region
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All Hallows
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Trevor B. Cunningham
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Western
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(The) Barrens
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Chaz Thorne
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Atlantic
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Follow your Star
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Michael Melski
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Atlantic
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Going Down the Road, Again
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Don Shebib
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Goldmine
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Paula Tiberius
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Permanent Holiday
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Tricia Fish
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Ontario & Nunavut
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(The) Room
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Michael Giampa
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Western
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What Goes Around
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Andrew Pope
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Western
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