The Harold Greenberg Fund, a Canadian private cinematographic patronage program, announced the title of the 26 films that got supported by its script development program. Here are the projects:
Story Optioning
The Flying Troutmans
Four Seasons Productions Inc.
Screenwriters: Miriam Toews & Semi Chellas
The Journal of Mortifying Moments
Marcon Pictures Inc., T.L. Boulton Productions Ltd. & Calder Road Films Inc.
Screenwriters: Jill Girling & Lori Mather-Welch
The Outlander
Strada Films Inc. & Triptych Media Inc.
Screenwriter: Esta Spalding
Sailor Girl
Markham Street Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Johanna Schneller
Treatment to First Draft
Flop House
John Hazlett
Screenwriters: Darren Curtis & John Hazlett
Happy Clean, The Last Chinese Laundry
Picture Plant Ltd.
Screenwriter: William D. MacGillivray
Kill Shakespeare
Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
Screenwriters: Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
A Royal Day
Conquering Lion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Gerald Wexler
Shanghai Follies
Amf Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Ann Marie Fleming
First to Second Draft
Cottage Country
Whizbang Films Inc.
Story Optioning
The Flying Troutmans
Four Seasons Productions Inc.
Screenwriters: Miriam Toews & Semi Chellas
The Journal of Mortifying Moments
Marcon Pictures Inc., T.L. Boulton Productions Ltd. & Calder Road Films Inc.
Screenwriters: Jill Girling & Lori Mather-Welch
The Outlander
Strada Films Inc. & Triptych Media Inc.
Screenwriter: Esta Spalding
Sailor Girl
Markham Street Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Johanna Schneller
Treatment to First Draft
Flop House
John Hazlett
Screenwriters: Darren Curtis & John Hazlett
Happy Clean, The Last Chinese Laundry
Picture Plant Ltd.
Screenwriter: William D. MacGillivray
Kill Shakespeare
Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
Screenwriters: Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
A Royal Day
Conquering Lion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Gerald Wexler
Shanghai Follies
Amf Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Ann Marie Fleming
First to Second Draft
Cottage Country
Whizbang Films Inc.
- 4/22/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
The Harold Greenberg Fund Script Program, a financing program from the entertainment company Astral Media, unveiled twenty-four upcoming Canadian films - chosen out of ninety-nine films - that will get its financial support.
Moreover, the selection of films include Neuromancer, an adaptation of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube), and Prisoner of Tehran, from Kari Skogland (Fifty Dead Men Walking). If you're an enthusiast of literature, you'll notice the presence of the film Cockroach, which is an adaptation of a novel by award-winning author Rawi Hage.
Now, without further ado, let's have a cursory look at the films that will get funded.
Story Optioning
Bottle Rocket Hearts
Sonia Hosko, Michelle Mama and Stephanie Markowitz
Screenwriter: Zoe Whittall and Linsey Stewart
Cockroach
Films du Boulevard Inc.
Screenwriter: Arto Paragamian
The Program
Acqua Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Hal Niedzviecki
Consecrated Ground
Emotion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Thom Fitzgerald
Prisoner of Tehran
Miracle Pictures Inc.
Moreover, the selection of films include Neuromancer, an adaptation of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube), and Prisoner of Tehran, from Kari Skogland (Fifty Dead Men Walking). If you're an enthusiast of literature, you'll notice the presence of the film Cockroach, which is an adaptation of a novel by award-winning author Rawi Hage.
Now, without further ado, let's have a cursory look at the films that will get funded.
Story Optioning
Bottle Rocket Hearts
Sonia Hosko, Michelle Mama and Stephanie Markowitz
Screenwriter: Zoe Whittall and Linsey Stewart
Cockroach
Films du Boulevard Inc.
Screenwriter: Arto Paragamian
The Program
Acqua Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Hal Niedzviecki
Consecrated Ground
Emotion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Thom Fitzgerald
Prisoner of Tehran
Miracle Pictures Inc.
- 5/6/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Ginnifer Goodwin has joined the cast of the indie comedy Laws of Motion.
Matthew Perry, Hilary Swank and Ben Foster already have boarded the Craig Lucas-helmed project, which is being produced by Plum Pictures, Ideal Partners Film Fund and Hilary Swank Prods.
Penned by Elyse Friedman, the story centers on a husband (Perry) struggling with life in a repressive career and community and enduring headaches caused by his free-spirited brother (Foster) and sister (Goodwin). Swank will play a supporting role as the all-too-perfect neighbor of Perry's harried character.
Plum Pictures partners Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Celine Rattray and Galt Niederhoffer are producing alongside Ideal's Jana Edelbaum and Swank.
The film is shooting in Connecticut.
Goodwin, whose credits include Walk the Line and Mona Lisa Smile, stars on the HBO series Big Love.
She is repped by WMA, John Carrabino Management and attorney Michael Gendler.
Matthew Perry, Hilary Swank and Ben Foster already have boarded the Craig Lucas-helmed project, which is being produced by Plum Pictures, Ideal Partners Film Fund and Hilary Swank Prods.
Penned by Elyse Friedman, the story centers on a husband (Perry) struggling with life in a repressive career and community and enduring headaches caused by his free-spirited brother (Foster) and sister (Goodwin). Swank will play a supporting role as the all-too-perfect neighbor of Perry's harried character.
Plum Pictures partners Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Celine Rattray and Galt Niederhoffer are producing alongside Ideal's Jana Edelbaum and Swank.
The film is shooting in Connecticut.
Goodwin, whose credits include Walk the Line and Mona Lisa Smile, stars on the HBO series Big Love.
She is repped by WMA, John Carrabino Management and attorney Michael Gendler.
Prolific Canadian director Anne Wheeler, whose 1999 film "Better Than Chocolate" was a sharp, sexy breath of fresh air, is back with another adult-themed romantic comedy that promises more of the same.
Alas, "Suddenly Naked" seldom makes good on that promise.
A sitcom-y portrait of an older woman/younger man liaison set in the world of book publishing, the picture is mired in flitty, formulaic scripting and marked by a go-for-broke lead performance by Wendy Crewson that could have been toned down a couple of notches without losing its larger-than-life appeal.
While it is understandably hoping to cast a reasonably wide commercial net with its frank sexuality and deliberate avoidance of Canadian specifics, "Naked" will likely fall considerably short of "Chocolate"'s much-better-than-average performance.
Crewson plays Jackie, a 39-year-old best-selling author who is equal parts Collins and Susann.
Stuck in a rut of writer's block and meaningless one-night stands with admirers (whom she categorizes in a database according to physical attributes and stamina), Jackie is watched over by fellow author Lionel Heathcoate (trusty Peter Coyote), who cooks disgusting-sounding low-fat dishes for her, secretly hoping to one day become more than just her confidant.
Enter Patrick McKeating (Joe Cobden), a lanky, slightly goofy, promising writer half Jackie's age who works part time at Shawarma King juggling torches and whose idea of sophisticated snacking involves Trix straight from the package.
Despite her initial protestations, Jackie ultimately surrenders herself to Patrick's young, idealistic advances, and, after a couple of false starts, she finally learns what it means to be true to herself.
Cue the commercials.
Although the script, by Elyse Friedman, has its share of witty lines, there's a forced quality to the situations that prevents them from being involvingly believable.
Wheeler, who directs with her usual visual energy, works hard to make the material sing, but the notes that are produced tend to come off as either sharp or flat rather than natural.
One of the few exceptions is a winning sequence in which Jackie and Lionel take a stab at a physical relationship, but everything they do to set the mood ends up feeling awkward and silly.
More moments like that would have made "Naked" the kind of candid, sophisticated big-screen comedy worthy of Wheeler's proven touch.
SUDDENLY NAKED
White Rock Film International
Director: Anne Wheeler
Screenwriter: Elyse Friedman
Producer: Gavin Wilding
Executive producers: Anne Wheeler, Ralph Zimmerman
Director of photography: David Frazee
Production designer: Cathy Robertson
Editor: Lara Mazur
Music: Chris Ainscough
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jackie York: Wendy Crewson
Lionel Heathcoate: Peter Coyote
Patrick McKeating: Joe Cobden
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Alas, "Suddenly Naked" seldom makes good on that promise.
A sitcom-y portrait of an older woman/younger man liaison set in the world of book publishing, the picture is mired in flitty, formulaic scripting and marked by a go-for-broke lead performance by Wendy Crewson that could have been toned down a couple of notches without losing its larger-than-life appeal.
While it is understandably hoping to cast a reasonably wide commercial net with its frank sexuality and deliberate avoidance of Canadian specifics, "Naked" will likely fall considerably short of "Chocolate"'s much-better-than-average performance.
Crewson plays Jackie, a 39-year-old best-selling author who is equal parts Collins and Susann.
Stuck in a rut of writer's block and meaningless one-night stands with admirers (whom she categorizes in a database according to physical attributes and stamina), Jackie is watched over by fellow author Lionel Heathcoate (trusty Peter Coyote), who cooks disgusting-sounding low-fat dishes for her, secretly hoping to one day become more than just her confidant.
Enter Patrick McKeating (Joe Cobden), a lanky, slightly goofy, promising writer half Jackie's age who works part time at Shawarma King juggling torches and whose idea of sophisticated snacking involves Trix straight from the package.
Despite her initial protestations, Jackie ultimately surrenders herself to Patrick's young, idealistic advances, and, after a couple of false starts, she finally learns what it means to be true to herself.
Cue the commercials.
Although the script, by Elyse Friedman, has its share of witty lines, there's a forced quality to the situations that prevents them from being involvingly believable.
Wheeler, who directs with her usual visual energy, works hard to make the material sing, but the notes that are produced tend to come off as either sharp or flat rather than natural.
One of the few exceptions is a winning sequence in which Jackie and Lionel take a stab at a physical relationship, but everything they do to set the mood ends up feeling awkward and silly.
More moments like that would have made "Naked" the kind of candid, sophisticated big-screen comedy worthy of Wheeler's proven touch.
SUDDENLY NAKED
White Rock Film International
Director: Anne Wheeler
Screenwriter: Elyse Friedman
Producer: Gavin Wilding
Executive producers: Anne Wheeler, Ralph Zimmerman
Director of photography: David Frazee
Production designer: Cathy Robertson
Editor: Lara Mazur
Music: Chris Ainscough
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jackie York: Wendy Crewson
Lionel Heathcoate: Peter Coyote
Patrick McKeating: Joe Cobden
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Prolific Canadian director Anne Wheeler, whose 1999 film "Better Than Chocolate" was a sharp, sexy breath of fresh air, is back with another adult-themed romantic comedy that promises more of the same.
Alas, "Suddenly Naked" seldom makes good on that promise.
A sitcom-y portrait of an older woman/younger man liaison set in the world of book publishing, the picture is mired in flitty, formulaic scripting and marked by a go-for-broke lead performance by Wendy Crewson that could have been toned down a couple of notches without losing its larger-than-life appeal.
While it is understandably hoping to cast a reasonably wide commercial net with its frank sexuality and deliberate avoidance of Canadian specifics, "Naked" will likely fall considerably short of "Chocolate"'s much-better-than-average performance.
Crewson plays Jackie, a 39-year-old best-selling author who is equal parts Collins and Susann.
Stuck in a rut of writer's block and meaningless one-night stands with admirers (whom she categorizes in a database according to physical attributes and stamina), Jackie is watched over by fellow author Lionel Heathcoate (trusty Peter Coyote), who cooks disgusting-sounding low-fat dishes for her, secretly hoping to one day become more than just her confidant.
Enter Patrick McKeating (Joe Cobden), a lanky, slightly goofy, promising writer half Jackie's age who works part time at Shawarma King juggling torches and whose idea of sophisticated snacking involves Trix straight from the package.
Despite her initial protestations, Jackie ultimately surrenders herself to Patrick's young, idealistic advances, and, after a couple of false starts, she finally learns what it means to be true to herself.
Cue the commercials.
Although the script, by Elyse Friedman, has its share of witty lines, there's a forced quality to the situations that prevents them from being involvingly believable.
Wheeler, who directs with her usual visual energy, works hard to make the material sing, but the notes that are produced tend to come off as either sharp or flat rather than natural.
One of the few exceptions is a winning sequence in which Jackie and Lionel take a stab at a physical relationship, but everything they do to set the mood ends up feeling awkward and silly.
More moments like that would have made "Naked" the kind of candid, sophisticated big-screen comedy worthy of Wheeler's proven touch.
SUDDENLY NAKED
White Rock Film International
Director: Anne Wheeler
Screenwriter: Elyse Friedman
Producer: Gavin Wilding
Executive producers: Anne Wheeler, Ralph Zimmerman
Director of photography: David Frazee
Production designer: Cathy Robertson
Editor: Lara Mazur
Music: Chris Ainscough
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jackie York: Wendy Crewson
Lionel Heathcoate: Peter Coyote
Patrick McKeating: Joe Cobden
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Alas, "Suddenly Naked" seldom makes good on that promise.
A sitcom-y portrait of an older woman/younger man liaison set in the world of book publishing, the picture is mired in flitty, formulaic scripting and marked by a go-for-broke lead performance by Wendy Crewson that could have been toned down a couple of notches without losing its larger-than-life appeal.
While it is understandably hoping to cast a reasonably wide commercial net with its frank sexuality and deliberate avoidance of Canadian specifics, "Naked" will likely fall considerably short of "Chocolate"'s much-better-than-average performance.
Crewson plays Jackie, a 39-year-old best-selling author who is equal parts Collins and Susann.
Stuck in a rut of writer's block and meaningless one-night stands with admirers (whom she categorizes in a database according to physical attributes and stamina), Jackie is watched over by fellow author Lionel Heathcoate (trusty Peter Coyote), who cooks disgusting-sounding low-fat dishes for her, secretly hoping to one day become more than just her confidant.
Enter Patrick McKeating (Joe Cobden), a lanky, slightly goofy, promising writer half Jackie's age who works part time at Shawarma King juggling torches and whose idea of sophisticated snacking involves Trix straight from the package.
Despite her initial protestations, Jackie ultimately surrenders herself to Patrick's young, idealistic advances, and, after a couple of false starts, she finally learns what it means to be true to herself.
Cue the commercials.
Although the script, by Elyse Friedman, has its share of witty lines, there's a forced quality to the situations that prevents them from being involvingly believable.
Wheeler, who directs with her usual visual energy, works hard to make the material sing, but the notes that are produced tend to come off as either sharp or flat rather than natural.
One of the few exceptions is a winning sequence in which Jackie and Lionel take a stab at a physical relationship, but everything they do to set the mood ends up feeling awkward and silly.
More moments like that would have made "Naked" the kind of candid, sophisticated big-screen comedy worthy of Wheeler's proven touch.
SUDDENLY NAKED
White Rock Film International
Director: Anne Wheeler
Screenwriter: Elyse Friedman
Producer: Gavin Wilding
Executive producers: Anne Wheeler, Ralph Zimmerman
Director of photography: David Frazee
Production designer: Cathy Robertson
Editor: Lara Mazur
Music: Chris Ainscough
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jackie York: Wendy Crewson
Lionel Heathcoate: Peter Coyote
Patrick McKeating: Joe Cobden
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/5/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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