Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund announced today from the Canadian Media Production Association’s Prime Time in Ottawa the support of 40 new script development projects and the appointment of award-winning screenwriter and producer Suzette Couture as co-chair of the Board of Directors. The Harold Greenberg Fund is an organization dedicated to supporting independent film production in all stages of development.
“With first features from established literary voices like novelist Sheila Heti and playwright Hannah Moscovitch, the first English-language features by Academy Award® nominees Kim Nguyen, Luc Déry and Kim McGraw as well as new projects by celebrated Canadian directors such as Sudz Sutherland, our latest round of supported projects illustrates what an exciting time this is for Canadian film,” said John Galway, the Fund’s English-Language Program President. “We are extremely proud to support the nation’s finest filmmakers and thrilled to have Suzette Couture leading the charge as our new Board of Directors co-chair.”
Writer-producer of Canadian classics such as The Man Who Lost Himself and The City, Suzette Couture has been named co-chair after more than 10 years on the English-language committee of the Harold Greenberg Fund. Couture brings a wealth of extensive experience in both the creative and business sides of the film and television industry to the role. Couture won her fourth screenwriting Gemini Award for the CTV movie After the Harvest. She was awarded the Humanitas Prize for the CBS miniseries Haven, and her CBS miniseries Jesus was nominated for an Emmy. As a partner in Sarrazin Couture Entertainment, she won the Golden Reel Award for highest box office for her first Canadian feature, La Florida. She is now writing the feature film adaptation of 419, the Giller Prize winning novel. Couture succeeds Bryn Matthews, who had served as the board’s co-chair since 2024. Also joining the Board of Directors is Corrie Coe, Senior Vice-President, Independent Production, Bell Media.
The board of directors of the Harold Greenberg Fund has 14 members drawn from the film and television industry. The Fund operates two financing programs – English and French – each with its own financing components. The programs are respectively administered by a committee of seven members of the board of directors of the Harold Greenberg Fund.
Below is a list of the 40 new script development projects announced by Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund:
Story Optioning:
The Jane Austen Marriage Manual
DCP Film & TV Inc.
Screenwriter: Kim Izzo
Ballistics
Federgreen Entertainment Inc.
Screenwriter: D.W. Wilson
The Secret World of Og
Honalee Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Robin Hays
Ticknor
January Films Ltd.
Screenwriter: Sheila Heti
Arranged
Marcon Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter:TBD
Telling Tales (Baryshnikov Project)
Lumino Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: David Weaver
“Y”: A Novel
Quarterlife Crisis Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: TBD
The Outlander
Strada Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Esta Spalding
The Mistress of Nothing
Markham Street Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Elke Town
Treatment to First Draft:
Telling Tales (Baryshnikov Project)
Lumino Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: David Weaver
A Hell of a Harvest
Scythia Films Inc.
Screenwriters: Simon Ennis and Josh Peace
Cellist of Sarajevo
Strident Films, Inc.
Screenwriter: Don McKellar
Seventeen Days
Darius Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Gerald Wexler
First to Second Draft:
The Feast
3 Legged Dog Films Ltd.
Screenwriter: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Far To Go
House of Films Inc.
Screenwriters: Hannah Moscovitch and Rosa Laborde
Wrecking Ball
Mad Samurai Productions
Screenwriter: Daniel DiMarco
The Mistress of Nothing
Markham Street Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Elke Town
Earthly Justice
Media-Max Inc.
Screenwriter: Avrum Jacobson
Happiness
Prospector Films
Screenwriter: Johnny Ma
Entanglement
Resonance Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Jason Filiatrault
Four One Nine
Sarrazin Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Suzette Couture
Remedy in Paris
Screen Siren Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Operation Red Dog
Hungry Eyes Film & Television Inc.
Screenwriters: Sudz Sutherland and Jennifer Holness
Second to Final Draft:
Jumbo’s Clown Room
Buffalo Gal Pictures Development Inc.
Screenwriter: Alison Murray
Stealing Is Bad
Okita Lapeyre Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Jason Lapeyre
The Invisibles
Quadrant Motion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriters: Andrew Currie and Colin Aussant
Doubles With Slight Pepper
Red Stone Revival Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Ian Harnarine
Ava Lee
Strada Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Karen Walton
Red Snow
True West Films Ltd.
Screenwriter: Marie Clements
Closet Monster
Rhombus Media
Screenwriter: Stephen Dunn
Polish and Packaging:
You Belong To Me
Uno Bravo Inc.
Screenwriter: Spencer Maybee
Torchbearer
Alcina Pictures
Screenwriter: David Bradley Halls
How to Go to a Wedding Alone
Gearshift Films
Screenwriter: Renuka Jeyapalan
Origin of the World
Item 7 Inc.
Screenwriter: Kim Nguyen
A Worthy Companion
micro scope Inc.
Screenwriters: Jason Sanchez and Carlos Sanchez
A Good Girl Story
Engine Pictures Inc.
Screenwriters: Sean Garrity and Jonathan Williams
Everything Sucks
Ilana C Frank Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
Beale Street
Euclid 431 Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Nathan Morlando
Maudie
Screen Door Inc./Rink Rat Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Sherry White
Sweetness in the Belly
Sienna Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Laura Phillips
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