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		<title>February 2013 Funding Decisions</title>
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1">April 3, 2013<br />
<br />
The Board of Directors of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund has announced its decisions for the February 1, 2013 round of applications. <br />
<br />
The following projects received Production Grants under the Bell Fund’s Production Program:<br />
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>BROADCAST</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>DIGITAL MEDIA</strong></td>
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>Amazing Race – Canada</strong><br />
Insight TV Productions<br />
Executive Producers: John Brunton, Barbara Bowlby <br />
Producer: Mark Lysakowski<br />
<br />
CTV, 10 x 60 mins<br />
</td><td class="column-2"><strong>Amazing Race – Canada</strong><br />
Secret Location Inc.<br />
Producer: James Milward<br />
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	<td class="column-1">The Amazing Race Canada is a skill based competition show in which teams of two people, who have a pre-existing personal relationship, race around Canada in competition with other teams.</td><td class="column-2">An interactive map and gamisodes that capture the adrenalin and excitement of the race, through immersive video, interactive challenges, exclusive content, competitions and social media, to deliver a rich digital experience across multiple platforms</td>
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>Degrassi Season 13</strong><br />
Epitome Screen Productions Inc.<br />
Executive Producer: Stephen Stohn Producer: Linda Schuyler<br />
<br />
MuchMusic, 40 x 30 mins<br />
</td><td class="column-2"><strong>Degrassi Season 13</strong><br />
Epitome Screen Productions Inc.<br />
Producer: Stephen Stohn<br />
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	<td class="column-1">The students of Degrassi grapple with their journey into adulthood.  Pushing their own limits and testing the bonds of family and friends, the students find their own ways to deal with a far-reaching range of issues.</td><td class="column-2">Building on the successful existing Degrassi interactive properties, this season’s digital extensions include new webisodes, an upgrade to the Degrassi Chat App and expanded social media.</td>
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>Martian War</strong><br />
Entertainment One Television Productions Ltd, Impossible Pictures Ltd.<br />
Executive Producers: Michael Kot, Steve Maher <br />
Producers: Michael Kot, Mike Slee <br />
<br />
Shaw Media, 1 x  90 mins<br />
</td><td class="column-2"><strong>Martian War Mobile App </strong><br />
Secret Location <br />
Producers: James Milward, Kathryn Rawson<br />
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	<td class="column-1">Using actual historical events that parallel WW1, Martian War will be a unique window into the past. Employing CGI elements composited into real period footage to produce a convincing Martian War film archive with documentary evidence of everything from alien war-machines battling the allies on the Western Front to aerial dogfights between Martian sky ships and bi-planes over London. </td><td class="column-2">The Martian War Mobile App is a photorealistic endless runner game that extends the creative, narrative world of the film into gaming territory to further engage film’s audience.</td>
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>Saving Hope Season 2</strong><br />
Hope Zee Two Inc.<br />
Executive Producers: Ilana Frank, David Wellington, Morwyn Brebner, Adam Pettle, John Morayniss <br />
Producers: Kathy Avrich-Johnson, Linda Pope<br />
<br />
CTV, 18 x 60 mins<br />
</td><td class="column-2"><strong>Saving Hope - Liver Rounds</strong><br />
Hope Zee Two Inc. <br />
Producers: Kathy Avrich-Johnson, Sonia Hosko<br />
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	<td class="column-1">Chief of Surgery Charlie Harris is awake. And he's still seeing dead people. It's a secret Charlie has to keep. Charlie's ghosts threaten to destroy his relationship, his livelihood and even his life. </td><td class="column-2">Webisodes that give viewers a barstool perch to witness their favorite characters dealing and struggling with their personal and professional lives as they meet up a bar after work.</td>
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>Spin Off </strong><br />
SeeMore Games Inc.<br />
Executive Producer: Morgan Elliott<br />
Producers: Steff Millman, Erica Lenczner<br />
<br />
Channel Zero/CHCH, 13 x 30 mins<br />
</td><td class="column-2"><strong>Spin Off 360</strong><br />
Digital Howard <br />
Producer: Daniel Dales<br />
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	<td class="column-1">Spin Off is a new game show that combines elements of both trivia and chance, where one contestant plays at a time and a giant wheel serves as the game board.</td><td class="column-2">A digital extension that allows the home audience to play the game at home or on the go and to play along live with each broadcast episode on the device of their choice.</td>
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>The Wild World of Warren  </strong><br />
Warren Canada Inc., Baby Cow Animation (Warren) Limited<br />
Executive Producer: Bill Freedman<br />
Producers: Jonas Diamond, Denny Silverthorne, Jeremy Diamond<br />
Henry Normal<br />
<br />
Bite Television, ITV 6 x 30 mins<br />
</td><td class="column-2"><strong>FanUnited  </strong><br />
Warren Canada Inc. <br />
Producer: Jonas Diamond<br />
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	<td class="column-1">"The Wild World of Warren" is an animated series about the life of a portly 37-year old everyman on the horns of a terrible dilemma – can he support his family and his passion for soccer in equal measure?</td><td class="column-2">Bringing Warren’s fandom to mobile, online and Facebook, users engage with a variety of games and activities, user-generated video, and explore the history of fandom, and character generated blogs and tweets.</td>
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1"><strong>The following French-language projects received Production Grants under the Bell Fund’s Production Program: </strong></td>
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>Série noire </strong><br />
Productions Casablanca<br />
Producer: Joanne Forgues<br />
SRC, 12 x 60 minutes<br />
</td><td class="column-2"><strong>Série noire </strong><br />
Productions Casablanca<br />
Producer: Joanne Forgues <br />
<br />
DM Service Company: Productions Les Affranchis<br />
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	<td class="column-1">Denis and Patrick are two scriptwriters who have to face reality when their latest judicial-police series, La loi de la justice, was a flop. Now they have to write the second season. To save face, they have no other choice than to radically change their way of writing. How far are they willing to go to make sure their piece of work is true to reality?</td><td class="column-2">The web-based social ecosystem will place “micro-contents” from Série noire online that fans of the program can shape and share among themselves to create “virality” for the series. This ecosystem relies on the culture of sharing implicit in Web 2.0 and draws on, or is inspired by, widely used social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr.</td>
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>Beauce Carnaval </strong><br />
Productions GFP (IV)<br />
Producer: Michel St-Cyr, Guy Villeneuve<br />
<br />
Ztélé, 10 x 30 mins<br />
</td><td class="column-2"><strong>Beauce Carnaval </strong><br />
Productions GFP (IV) <br />
Producer: Michel St-Cyr, Guy Villeneuve<br />
<br />
DM Service Company: Turbulent Média<br />
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	<td class="column-1">The fairground world has always intrigued and fascinated us through the ages. Carnival crews, mediums, acrobats and giants inhabit the universe of those strange travelers who visited villages to entertain. Beauce Carnaval revisits the tradition of fairs. Fairs represent the most important industry in Canada in the field of amusement parks and yet myths and prejudices persist. The series show how it really works today. </td><td class="column-2">Amusing games and exclusive videos; 6 flash games offering 3 levels of difficulty each. Additionally, the project a hybrid game which employs a mobile device and a website interface simultaneously, offering a new way of gaming that requires a more physical implication on behalf of the user.</td>
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>Les Argonautes  </strong><br />
Productions Pixcom<br />
Producer: Thérèse Pinho<br />
<br />
Tele-Quebec, 52 x 30 mins<br />
</td><td class="column-2"><strong>Les Argonautes 2013.com </strong><br />
Productions Pixcom<br />
Producer: Nadine Dufour <br />
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DM Service Company: Toboggan<br />
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	<td class="column-1">In 2162, six kids and their family travel in a space ship as they try to understand the codes they receive from a faraway planet. They all dream about a space map with a flash in the middle – this where they have to go. Maybe it is the White Planet? The life will be challenging on the vessel as they discover the mysteries of the planets and the people.</td><td class="column-2">A science-based educational game with a web version and an iPad app. Modelled on console games, Les Argonautes 2013 also has the objective of sensitizing players to ecology and to the importance of respecting the environment. The mission consists of liberating the planet Potamia from the polluting Serpilleurs, cleaning it up, and restoring its flora and fauna. Through avatars that match characters from the TV series, young players accomplish this mission by calling on their logical skills, all the while acquiring knowledge of chemistry and physics. </td>
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	<td class="column-1"><strong>Un air de famille  </strong><br />
Productions Image II <br />
Producer: Ginette Gauthier<br />
<br />
SRC, 12 x 60 mins<br />
</td><td class="column-2"><strong>Un air de famille  </strong><br />
Productions Image II <br />
Producer: Josée Vallée<br />
<br />
DM Service Company: Version 10<br />
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	<td class="column-1">Each week, three families sing a song of their choice and they must entertain the audience and surprise their coach. Some of them will stay in the “competition” till the end when the best family will be voted. Each family has a coach. Families are chosen on their vocal abilities and the desire to perform.</td><td class="column-2">Each week, the viewing public gets to vote for its favorite family, chose the three families that will be moving on to the finals, and even select the song that they will be performing. The social media aspect of the project also allows internet users to view private backstage video content, as well as clips from the families while they’re on the road, and even exchange with family members through the use of an exchange module.</td>
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1"><strong>The following projects received  Production Grants under the Bell Fund’s TV Development Digital Pilot Program:</strong></td>
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1"><strong>Vampire Steve  </strong><br />
Smiley Guy Studios <br />
Producers: Jonas Diamond, Sean Cullen, Jeremy Diamond, Denny Silverthorne<br />
<br />
Teletoon <br />
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1"><strong>Night Terrors  </strong><br />
Copperheart Entertainment <br />
Producer: Steven Hoban<br />
<br />
Superchannel<br />
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1"><strong>Fangbone  </strong><br />
Radical Sheep Productions Inc.<br />
Producers: John Leitch, Michelle Melanson<br />
<br />
Family Channel<br />
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1"><strong>Pull : How Technology is Changing The Conversation </strong><br />
Q Media Solutions<br />
Producer: Dorothy Engelman<br />
<br />
TVO<br />
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1"><strong>The following project received Development funding:</strong></td>
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1"><strong>Polar Sea 360 Interactive Journey  </strong><br />
DEEP Inc.<br />
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1"><strong>The following organizations received Professional Development funding:</strong></td>
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1"><strong>Banff World Media Festival 2013  </strong><br />
Banff World Media<br />
<br />
All Access 2013<br />
OnScreen Manitoba<br />
<br />
Digiscape 2013<br />
WIFT-T<br />
<br />
28e Gala des Prix Gémeaux<br />
Académie canadienne du cinéma et de la télévision<br />
<br />
La journée transmedia storytelling<br />
Rencontres cinématographiques de Québec<br />
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	<td colspan="2" class="column-1">The Bell Fund provides grants to Canadian independent producers who develop and produce television content complemented and enhanced by excellent digital content designed for various platforms. These digital media projects reflect state-of-the-art technology and are helping traditional television producers and broadcasters to discover the value added benefits of digital extensions.  Since 1997, the Bell Fund has invested over $100M in over 1,100 Canadian new media projects, television programs, development grants and support for research and professional development.<br />
The Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund receives annual contributions of approximately $14 M from Bell TV as part of its broadcast distribution undertaking (BDU) contributions to the industry. In addition, the Development Program is supported by the interest generated by a $10M endowment resulting from BCE-CTV benefits, and contributions from Aliant. The Bell Fund is incorporated as a not-for-profit organization, governed by an independent Board of Directors representing various sectors of the television and digital media industry. The Fund is administered by the Independent Production Fund.<br />
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	<td class="column-1">416-977-8154<br />
bellfund@ipf.ca<br />
www.bellfund.ca<br />
</td><td class="column-2">514-845-4418<br />
fondsbell@ipf.ca<br />
www.fondsbell.ca<br />
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