The Harold Greenberg Fund newsletter provides updates on several projects supported by the Fund, including: - Hidden, a Holocaust drama now filming in Berlin, received support from the Script Development and Equity Investment programs. - Grown Up Movie Star, directed by Adriana Maggs and produced by Pope Productions, received support from the Script Development and Equity Investment programs and was invited to the Sundance Film Festival. - A Shine of Rainbows won several awards at film festivals and was supported by the Family Film Program. - The latest funding round approved 27 new projects through the Script Development and Equity Investment programs.

1. The Harold Greenberg Fund
NEWSLETTER
Winter Update 2nd
Edition | FEBRUARY Issue
In Production
Hidden
Hockey the Musical
Jingle Bell Rocks!
Notre Dame de Grâce
In Post
Beat the World
A Beginner’s Guide to Endings
Funkytown
Gunless
Oliver Sherman
Red Coat Justice
The Whistle Blower
at Festivals
Grown Up Movie Star
In Theatres
5150 Elm’s Way (5150, rue des ormes)
La Donation
Defendor
Grown Up Movie Star
High Life
The Trotsky (Coming in May)
On TMN
FEBRUARY and MarcH
Adoration
All Hat
Amal
Emotional Arithmetic
Fugitive Pieces
Heaven on Earth
How She Move
The Necessities of Life
(Ce qu’il faut pour vivre)
A No Hit, No Run Summer
Nurse.Fighter.Boy
Passchendaele
Puck Hogs
Shake Hands with the Devil
The Stone Angel
The Thaw
Toronto Stories
Victoria Day
On MPIX
Kitchen Party
Owning Mahowny
Kudos
A Shine of Rainbows recently took home
first place in the category of Best Live-
Action Feature Film at the 2009 Chicago
International Children’s Film Festival.
Written by Vic Sarin, Catherine Spear and
Dennis Foon, and directed by Vic Sarin,
the heartwarming family film also won the
Audience Choice for Best Dramatic Feature
at the Heartland Truly Moving Pictures
Festival and the Audience Choice Award
at the Ibiza International Film Festival. Supported by The Harold Greenberg
Fund’s Family Film Program, the Canada-Ireland co-production has been busy
making the rounds at prestigious international festivals in Toronto, Vancouver,
Whistler and London, England. It is slated for theatrical release this spring.
Adriana Maggs’ feature film
debut, Grown Up Movie Star,
was invited to participate in
the World Cinema Competition
at the 2010 Sundance Film
Festival. Produced by Pope
Productions, the project
received support from The
Harold Greenberg Fund’s
Script Development and Equity
Investment programs. It features acclaimed actor Shawn Doyle (Big Love/
HBO) alongside rising star Tatiana Maslany (“Heartland”, Eastern Promises),
who also took home a special jury prize for breakout performance in World
Cinema. Set in Newfoundland, the film tells the story of a precocious teenage
girl who is left by a mother pursuing dreams of stardom, to care for her
hopelessly “unsophisticated” father.
Now in theatres. Click here to watch the official movie trailer.
Amaze Film & Television’s Finn on the Fly took
home first prize for Best Independent Feature,
Ages 8-12 at the latest KID’S FIRST! Film
Festival. The project, which received funding
from The Harold Greenberg Fund’s Family Film
Program at both the Script Development and
Equity Investment stage, is a fun, family-friendly
tale about a frisbee-playing dog and his young
owner.
Writer David Shamoon’s
Holocaust drama Hidden is
now shooting on location at
the Babelsberg studios in chilly,
snow-covered Berlin. Produced
by Film Works Ltd. along with
international co-producers from
Germany and Poland, the film
is being directed by Agnieszka
Holland of Europa Europa fame.
Hidden chronicles the story of
a Polish thief who reluctantly
agrees to hide a group of Jews in the sewers of Nazi-occupied Lvov for money,
then becomes committed to their survival. It was supported by The Harold
Greenberg Fund’s Script Development and Equity Investment Programs.
Fund Projects:
Short Announcements
• Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HG_Fund.
• Check out our Facebook page and become a Fan!
• The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is gearing up for a
spring shoot. Follow along with writer/director Tara John’s
blog.
• Equity Investment Project High Life opened across Canada
on January 15. Join their Facebook page to watch the
trailer and keep up to date on all the film’s latest news.
• Equity Investment Project Defendor hits theatres Friday
February 19. Click here to view the trailer.
• DID YOU KNOW...
The Fund is committed to finding greener ways to do
business? We turn off the lights during the day in un-
used areas, turn the thermostats down every night, print
double-sided onto recycled paper, and reuse materials.
Fund President John Galway also tries to take the train
or buy carbon offsets when possible, so as to reduce the
environmental impact of business travel.

2. Last December, two BC writers and I had the
privilege of ruminating over different pitches and
marketing ideas for our feature film projects at the
CFC Writers Workshop during the 2009 Whistler
Film Festival. The name of the workshop is rather
deceptive since it was not about writing itself
but about providing writers with valuable market
intelligence on their projects. The workshop is
designed to help writers gain insight into aspects
of the business that could strengthen their script
and successfully attract support in the international
marketplace. As a writer, marketing is such a
challenging concept for me, requiring a completely
different skill set separate from creative writing. I
was up for the challenge.
The other writers involved were Katherine Collins,
who was pitching her near future thriller, Zed and
Trevor Markwart, who was there with his comedic
script, Saucer Kings. I was pitching my dramatic
feature, Portraits of You and Me, which has received
support from the Harold Greenberg Fund’s Script
Development Program.
Held in a roundtable setting, the one-day workshop
was an intense, eight-hour session which required
us to pitch EIGHT times to industry professionals
who analyzed our projects and pitches, and provided
feedback from a marketplace perspective. The high-
powered industry professionals in attendance were
Peter Wetherell, President of Magnus Entertainment,
Ben Kramer, Finance and Packaging at CAA, Scott
Shooman, VP of Production and Acquisitions at
Sony Pictures, Tony Safford, EVP of Acquisitions
at Fox Searchlight, John Galway at the Harold
Greenberg Fund, Ellen Pittleman, President of Hybrid
Entertainment, and Tim Brown, CEO of Joker Films.
The knowledge I gained and the connections I
made were invaluable. I think every writer would
benefit from hearing comments on the side of agents,
buyers and packagers. Understanding the way they
think is important in figuring out how to tailor pitch
your project to garner excitement and interest. I
left the session drained but exhilarated and hopeful.
I feel extremely grateful to all the sponsors and
participants for giving us this opportunity.
The Harold Greenberg Fund
NEWSLETTER
winter Update 2nd
Edition | FEBRUARY Issue
When eight-year
Fund veteran Andrea
Langford departed
for greener pastures
(or rather, the
rolling green hills of
Ireland) at the end
of October, she left
some very big and
capable shoes to fill.
After a thorough
three-month search, we are pleased to announce
that Alan Bacchus will be the new Business Affairs
Specialist at the Harold Greenberg Fund!
Alan comes to us from the Canadian Film
Centre, where he was the Program Coordinator
for the Feature Film Project. Prior to the CFC, he
worked at Capri Films and Capri Releasing, and
was the Development Manager at Norflicks.
Alan has also produced five short films – two of
which he directed – which have been broadcast on
Movieola, CBC, Air Canada and Bravo as well as
playing at several film festivals. He is a graduate
of the Vancouver film school.
In his “spare time” Alan writes and blogs
about film at www.dailyfilmdose.com and www.
canadianfilmdose.com. He is also the curator of
Canadian Cinema in Review at Toronto’s Revue
Cinema, a series of monthly screenings of great
Canadian films.
Please join us in welcoming Alan to the team!
WELCOME ALAN BACCHUS!
THE CFC WRITERS WORKSHOP
By julia kwan
Astral Media The Harold Greenberg Fund is pleased
to announce its latest round of funding for 27 new
and ongoing projects through its Script Development
Program and Equity Investment Program.
Chosen from a record 139 applications sent in for
the September 30 deadline (nearly twice the average
amount), the most recent selection of supported
projects includes a dynamic combination of new
stories from old hands and old favourites from new
voices.
“New voices are always exciting and, of course,
essential to the growth of our industry, but it’s great
that we’re also seeing scripts from filmmakers whose
success we have shared in the past,” said John
Galway, President, English-Language Program, Astral
Media The Harold Greenberg Fund. “The fact that
we have an established core of capable creative
professionals who are continuing to produce work
lets us know that we’re succeeding in our efforts to
support local talent, and make screenwriting a viable
career option in Canada.”
This latest collection of supported scripts includes
new projects from recognized industry veterans Sarah
Polley (Away From Her) and Michael McGowan (One
Week), while Michael Dowse (Fubar) gives us a small-
town Newfoundland take on the 2003 Quebec hit La
Grande séduction.
Projects approved this quarter include:
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Story Optioning
The Flying Troutmans
Four Seasons Productions Inc.
Screenwriters: Semi Chellas and Miriam Toews
King Leary
Verite Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Paul Quarrington
SCRIPT PROGRAM SUPPORTS
27 NEW PROJECTS
Julia Kwan directs Phoebe Kut on the set of her first feature, Eve and the Fire Horse.
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3. The Harold Greenberg Fund
NEWSLETTER
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The Outlander
Strada Films Inc. and Triptych Media Inc.
Screenwriter: TBD
First Draft
Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet
Hand Picked Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Richard Bell
The Diary of Laura’s Twin
pUNK Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Laura Phillips
Don’t Talk To Irene
Alyson Richards Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Pat Mills
King Leary
Verite Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Paul Quarrington
The Lizard Cage
Sienna Films Inc.
Screenwriter: David Vainola
Queen Kristina
Triptych Media Inc.
Screenwriter: Michel Marc Bouchard
Second Draft
Dot’s Will
Playmaker Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Scott Simpson
The Flying Troutmans
Four Seasons Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Semi Chellas and Miriam Toews
Harmony
Bad Astronaut Inc.
Screenwriter: Andrea Dorfman and Jennifer Deyell
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Nine Mile Productions
Screenwriter: Katie Ford
Kush Kush in the Bush: Bollywood Comes to the
Trailer Park
Buffalo Gal Pictures Development Inc., Femmina
Films Inc. and Diamonds to Bullets Enterprises Inc.
Screenwriter: Rebecca Sernasie
Rhéal and Rhéaume
Sarrazin Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Suzette Couture
Sam I Am
Ichi Ni San Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Chris Smets
Spree
Productions Caramel Film Inc.
Screenwriter: Domenic Salvaggio
Final Draft
Blackbird
Emotion Pictures Inc. and Opolo Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Jason Buxton
Dead Tired
Productions The Gates Inc.
Screenwriter: Geoffrey Uloth and Jean-Francois Da
Sylva-La Rue
The Great Seduction
Max Films
Screenwriter: Michael Dowse
NuShu – The Secret Sisterhood
Filmarto Inc.
Screenwriter: Allen Hatcher
Propaganda
Javelin Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Karl Richter
Roadside
Mad Samurai Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: John L’Ecuyer
Polish Packaging
Kosher Sexy
julijette inc. and Jonas Chernick
Screenwriter: Jonas Chernick
Oma
January Films Ltd.
Screenwriters: Andrea Blundell and Claudia
Casagrande
Take This Waltz
Joe’s Daughter Inc.
Screenwriter: Sarah Polley
EQUITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM
Hockey the Musical
Mulmur Feed Company
Screenwriter/Director: Michael McGowan
The Script Development Program was created to assist in
the development of quality Canadian feature film scripts. The
program receives a yearly contribution of $1.3 million from
Astral Media’s The Movie Network.
The Equity Investment Program, funded by Astral Media’s
Viewers Choice, was established in 1992 to invest in the
production of quality Canadian dramatic movies made for
theatrical release and/or pay television.
The script development applications are reviewed each
quarter by the English-Language Committee of Astral Media
The Harold Greenberg Fund, which includes Suzette Couture,
Damon D’Oliveira, Melanie Friesen, John Galway, Shane
Kinnear, Bryn Matthews and Kevin Wright.
SCRIPT PROGRAM SUPPORTS 27 NEW PROJECTS (continued)