(Montreal) Telefilm Canada provided funding for eight documentaries aimed at the French-speaking market, including projects by filmmakers Félix Rose, Michel LaVeaux and Pascale Ferland.
The federal body granted a total of 1.65 million to filmmakers.
Documentaries funded include The Battle of Saint-Leonardby Félix Rose, to whom we owe the film The Roses.
Michel LaVeaux, who had made a documentary on filmmaker Michel Labrecque, received a grant for his new, Deleau: free cinema.
The new film by Pascale Ferland, In the forest is also part of the short list. Ferland made a lot of noise in 2018 for her documentary on singer Pauline Julien.
In the other documentaries funded, we also find My love: it’s for the rest of my life (Andre-Line Beauparlant), intercepted (Oksana Karpovych), Michel Brault: the instinct of sight (Frederick Pelletier), That silence does not prevail (Catherine Hebert) and Composed (Nadia Louis-Desmarchais).
The organization must make other funding decisions in the coming weeks.