7 Films Announced for INDIECAN10K Initiative

Indiecan Entertainment announced the seven films that have been selected for the inaugural INDIECAN10K initiative. Indiecan’s Avi Federgreen said that the seven films were selected from an impressive pool of 68 submissions that were received since the challenge was launched on January 13^th. Federgreen noted that the impressive response “bring[s] to light that we need to help our emerging filmmaking community across the country. The films that have been selected are a great representation of the creative talent that we have in this Canada” The films that have been selected are a great representation of the creative talent that we have in this Canada. The selected teams will work closely with Federgreen and their provincial mentors to develop their films through every aspect of production from script development to post-production. Projects must be fully completed by December 31, 2014.

The selected film projects for the challenge are:

BC - FSM – Melanie Jones (Writer/Director), Bernie Yao (Producer)

AB – Paradox Boy – Angus Kootenahyoo (Producer/Writer/Director), Kevin Prasad (Producer)

SK –Basic Human Needs – Matt Yim (Writer/Director), Allan Roeher & Matthieu Belanger (Producers)

MB – Intersection – Bradley Sawatzky (Director), Allan Turner (Writer), Jenny Ng (Producer)

NB – Owl River Runners – Danny Thebeau (Director/Producer), Donovan Richard (Producer), Chris Fulton (Writer)

NS – Noon Gun – Caley MacLennan (Writer, Director, Producer)

ON – A Sunday Kind of Love – Geordie Sabbaugh (Writer/Director), Taylor Bateman (Producer)

  

Participating Mentors and Provinces are: Trish Dolman, Screen Siren Pictures Inc., (BC), Dylan Pearce, 12Pt Media (AB), Mark Montague, Minds Eye Entertainment (SA), Kyle Bornais and John Barnard, Farpoint Films Inc. (MB), Sean Cisterna, Mythic Productions Inc. (ON), Gia Milani and Tony Whalen, Shore Road Pictures Inc. (NB), and Michael Melski, Cineast Screen Development Limited (NS)

For more information on INDIECAN10K including participating post-production facilities, sponsors, and crowdfunding, please visit www.indiecan10k.ca.