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Bell Media’s The Harold Greenberg Fund, in partnership with Creative BC, have announced new short film finance initiative HGF/BC Shorts Program.

The program is designed to finance short films from filmmaking teams in British Columbia, showcasing new creative visions and furthering the careers of writers, producers and directors as they move towards feature filmmaking.

Three recipients will each receive $20K in financial contributions from The Harold Greenberg Fund and Creative BC for short, impactful standalone films.

Deadline for submissions is June 1,2018. Find out more and apply.

Eligibility requirements

• Short film scripts 15 pages or under
• Writer, director and producer must not have had a credit on a feature film in their discipline
• Writer, producer, director must be Canadian
• Producer and writer must reside in BC
• Applicant company must be a BC incorporated company or a federally incorporated company with headquarters in BC

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Congrats to the NSI grads with films at this year’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver:

• NSI IndigiDocs short Flat Rocks from director Courtney Montour and producer Roxann Whitebean screens in the Shifting Worlds shorts program

• Nuuca from director Michelle Latimer (NSI Drama Prize) screens in the Framing Landscapes shorts program

• Looking at Edward Curtis from director Marie Clements (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program, NSI Storytellers) screens in the Rethinking Representation shorts program

DOXA runs from May 3 to 13, 2018.

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