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Industry advisory - Telefilm Canada announces English CFFF Development & Writer’s First decisions
Montreal, July 23, 2009 – Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce that 59 English-language projects have received financing from the development component of the Canada Feature Film Fund (CFFF).
Telefilm’s Writer’s 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 14 English-language projects from its two phases: Outline to Treatment and Treatment to First Draft.
Please note the projects noted here are reflective of projects which received offers of financial support and /or were contracted and fully executed during the period April 1 - July 10, 2009. Please note that projects listed in previous Industry Advisories are not included.
Development Program – Canada Feature Film Fund
Western Region
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Project
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Screenwriter
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Production company
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Bitten
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Tim Carter
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Contradiction Films Inc.
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Chamber (The)
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Mark Lewis & Zev Tiefenbach
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Artifact Films Inc.
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Comatose
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Zach Lipovsky
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0785878 BC Ltd.
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International Idol
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J. B. Sugar
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No Equal Entertainment Inc.
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John Doe
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Ross Ferguson
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Optic Nerve Films Inc.
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Kids Are On Fire (The)
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J. Joly
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Overinteractive Media Inc.
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Lottery (The)
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Tara Gereaux
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Serious Filmed Entertainment Inc./ Creative Engine Pictures Inc.
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Matching Blue
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Stephen Price
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Massey Productions Ltd.
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On the Blood
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Peter Behrens
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Certain Films Ltd./Schafer Thurling Productions Ltd.
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Satan's Brew
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Rebecca Gibson
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Eagle Vision Inc.
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Sense of Things (The)
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Jackie Mills
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Big Blue Films Inc.
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Sex Lives of Pirates
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David Ray & Armen Evrensel
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Cheap & Dirty Productions Inc.
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Shed Devil
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Sean Garrity
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Inferno Pictures Inc.
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Teen Lust
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Blaine Thurier
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Independent Edge Films Inc.
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Trance
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Jason DaSilva
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In Face Films Inc.
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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 (The)
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Nicolas Billon
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Melenny Productions Inc.
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Gastown
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Sarah Beckette
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Silo Corporation
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Hockey Night in Moose Jaw
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John Harrington & James Harrington
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Melenny Productions Inc.
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Housekeeper
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Philip Kalin-Hajdu
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Couzin Films Inc.
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Jingle Bells Rocks
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Mitchell Kezin
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Eye Steel Inc.
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Notre Dame de Grace
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Jacob Tierney
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Park Ex Pictures Inc.
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Rose by Name
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Shawn Linden
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Suki Films Inc.
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Salt
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Max McGuire & Sean Riopelle
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Transfilm Inc./Cine-Roman Inc.
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Therac 25
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Adam Pettle
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Les Films Jessie Inc.
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Vivaldi
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Kevin Lund & Timothy James Scott
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Les Productions Equinoxe Inc.
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Vulnerable
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Paul Quarrington
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Cité-Amérique Inc.
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Wolfpack
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Darren Curtis, John Hazlett, Pat Kiely & Matt Silver
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4473256 Canada 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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Anti-Diva
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Tamara Berger
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Straight Edge Films Inc,
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Bone
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Ryan Redford
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The Film Works Ltd.
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Celia
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Kellie Ann Benz
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Euclid 431 Pictures Inc. & Somnapix Inc.
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Death of Sweet Mister (The)
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John Brownlow
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Calder Road Films Inc.
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Earth (The)
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Peter Wellington
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The Film Farm Inc.
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Falling From Grace
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Layne Coleman & Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
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Four Seasons Productions Inc.
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Fatwa
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Ruba Nadda
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Foundry Films Inc.
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Finale
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Leon Marr
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Leader Media Productions Ltd.
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Grizzlies (The)
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Graham Yost
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Northwood Productions Inc.
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Hidden
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David Shamoon
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The Film Works Ltd.
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Home Again
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Jennifer Holness
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Hungry Eyes Film & Television Inc.
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Illiterature
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Shawn Postoff
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Javelin Picures Inc.
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Kit’s Law
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Thom Fitzgerald
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Conjure Entertainment Limited & Emotion Pictures Incorporated
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Kristina
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Michel-Marc Bouchard
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Triptych Media Inc.
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League of Monster Slayers
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Aaron Woodley
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New Real Films Inc.
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Malabar Court
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Niara Modi
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Six Island Productions Inc.
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Medieval
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Dan Signer & Alexander Epstein
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Amaze Film + Television Inc.
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Moody Food
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Graeme Manson
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T.L. Boulton Productions Ltd.
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November Gale
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Gerald Wexler, Ratch Wallace & Peter Lower
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Seafarer Films Inc.
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Oma
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Claudia Casagrande & Andrea Blundell
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January Films Ltd.
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Overtime
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Damian Lee
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Overtime Film Productions Ltd.
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Paddle to the Amazon
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Pete McCormack
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Insight Production Company Ltd.
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Retreat (The)
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James Hartnett
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Bensondale Productions Inc.
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Return to Bikini Mountain
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Collin Friesen
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January Films Limited
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Return of the Fabulous Seven
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Brian Drader
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Markham Street Films
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Schooled
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Greg Gutman & Darryl Smith
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Shoes Full of Feet Inc.
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Scream of a Butterfly
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Boris Mojsovski & Levko Mojsovski
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Summer Pictures Inc.
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Seven Deadly Sins
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Denise Blinn, Rebecca Addelman, Julia Kwan, Shannon Masters, Annmarie Morais, Cassandra Nicolau, Karen Troubetzkoy, Nikolijne Troubetzkoy
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Calder Road Films Inc.
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Small Town Murder Scenes
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Ed Gass-Donnelly
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3 Legged Dog Films Ltd.
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Textuality
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Liam Card
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Strident Films
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Three in the Back, Two in the Head
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Jason Sherman
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3 Legged Films Ltd.
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Uthando
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Gerald Wexler
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Nedji Corporation & Prospero Pictures
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Writer’s First – Outline to Treatment
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Project
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Screenwriter(s)
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Region
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Dark Continent
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Ross Ferguson
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Western
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Down the 401
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Theodore Bezaire
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Mad Robin
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Andrew Currie
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Western
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Silver and Gold
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Randall Cole
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Slow & the Dead (The)
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Victor Nicolle
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Western
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Snap
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Sean Garrity
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Western
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Sputnik
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Bojan Bodruzic & Dragana Bodruzic
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Western
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Summer Game
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John Hazlett
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Quebec
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Triplex
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Jesse Andrew Heffring & Al Kratina
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Quebec
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Writer’s 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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Black Angel
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Guy Bennett
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Western
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Borders
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Jeff Stephenson
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Ex Men
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Lee Hoverd
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Ontario & Nunavut
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Home?
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Lewis Cohen
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Quebec
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Horse
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Darren Curtis, Matt Silver & Pat Kiely
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Quebec
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