For immediate release
November 30, 2011
The Board of Directors of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund has announced its funding decisions for the October 1, 2011 round of applications.
The following projects received Production Grants under the Bell Fund’s Production Program:
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| Canada’s Smartest PersonMedia Headquarters Inc.
Executive Producers: Robert Cohen, Shari Cohen Producers: Charles Watcher, Pam McNair CBC, 1 x 120 mins
A live televised event which seeks to find Canada’s smartest person based on the six shades of intelligence that are becoming the new markers of what it means to be smart.
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Canada’s Smartest PersonSmiley Guy Studios
Producer: Jonas Diamond
Audiences will discover their multiple intelligence strengths through simple quizzes and can share the experience through social media and play along with the contest in real time through a mobile app.
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| Cross Country Fun HuntApartment 11 Productions Inc.
Executive Producer: Allan Joli-Couer Producer: Jonathan Finkelstein CBC, 13 x 24 mins
This reality series for tweens is designed to encourage kids to celebrate the “funnest” places they know across Canada. Kids recommend places/towns/events and one is selected for the production team to visit in each episode. The finale of the series is a vote for the “funnest” place in Canada.
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Cross Country Fun HuntApartment 11 Productions Inc.
Producers: Jason Levy
NM Service Company: TP1
As a van travels the country in search of the “funnest” place in Canada, kids can track the progress of the van using a mobile app, vote and interact online and watch webisodes that are cut and uploaded along the way. |
| The Guantanamo TrapThe Guantanamo Trap Productions
Producer: Amit Breuer Superchannel, 1 x 90 mins
Following the lives of a former prisoner, author of the “torture memo”, a judge advocate who released sensitive information about detainees and a lawyer leading a case against the US government, the film chronicles four people whose lives are touched by Guantanamo and depicts their search for a life after their experiences there.
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My September 11thThe Guantanamo Trap Productions
Producer: Amit Breuer
NM Service Company: Jam 3
My September 11th is dedicated to the exploration of personal and cultural narrative surrounding 9/11. It will also build community around 9/11 and the experiences that users share through the website and online video.
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| The Listener (Season 3)Shaftesbury Listener III Inc.
Executive Producers: Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie Producers: Jan Peter Meyboom, Adam Haight Bell Media, 13 x 60 mins
Toby Logan is a 30-year-old paramedic living with a secret: he can read people’s minds. Until now, he’s kept it to himself, fearing that his telepathic powers were a sign that he’s slowly but surely losing his mind.
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The Listener: Power SwitchShaftesbury Listener III Inc.
Producer: Jarrett Sherman
The Power Switch explores what would happen if Toby lost his unique powers for the first time in his life. This web series follows the lead characters from the TV series over 48 hours as they race to stop a nightmare pandemic from being released in Toronto.
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| Mr. Young (Season 2)Thunderbird Films Inc.
Executive Producers: Dan Signer, Howard Nemetz, Michael Shepard, Tim Gamble Producer: Alexandra Raffé, Victoria Hirst YTV, 26 x30 mins
Adam Young is a child prodigy who went to university at the age of nine. Now, at fourteen, he’s a college graduate and ready to enter the workforce… as a high school science teacher.
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Mr. Young S2 InteractiveThunderbirds Films Inc.
Producer: Alexandra Raffé
NM Service Company: Creative D
Mr. Young Interactive includes digital collector cards and companion game based on the Drop Deck platform, a custom microsite, and an arcade online Flash game.
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| Time TremorsXenophile Media
Producer: Patrick Crowe CBC, 7 x 3 mins
Brother and sister Max and Medie discover that their terrifying teacher Miss Bugly is actually a time travelling demon who feeds on fear and that their school is built on the site of a Time Tremor through which objects, animals, and people regularly appear and disappear.
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Time TremorsXenophile Media
Producer: Patrick Crowe
A mobile, online, and physical Treasure Hunt that combines game play with a transmedia approach to storytelling. Aimed at kids aged 7-12, the world of Time Tremors unfolds as players explore space, time and alternate dimensions to hunt, collect and trade a range of mysterious interactive Relics.
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| ViviSkywriter Television Inc.
Executive Producer: Kevin Gillis Producer: Stephen Hodgins
TVO, 52 x 11 mins
The series, which brings Vivi’s Memory Book to life, encourages discovery of the world around us, a greater understanding of other kids and their cultures and self knowledge through creativity, curiosity and the joy of sharing and re-telling stories.
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Vivi’s ScrapbookingSkywriter Media and Entertainment
Producer: Kevin Gillis
Through the Vivi’s Scrapbook website and a mobile app (which includes a starter kit and numerous theme pack additions) the TV program’s young audience can create, maintain and share digital memory books.
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The following French lanuguage projects received Production Grants under the Bell Fund’s Production Program:
| BROADCAST | NEW MEDIA |
| Rock tes basProductions GFP (II) Inc.
Producers: Guy Villeneuve, Michel St-Cyr TFO, 10 x 30 mins
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Rock tes basProductions GFP (II) Inc.
Producer: Guy Villeneuve, Michel St-Cyr
NM Service Company: Turbulent Media
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| Mixmania IIIZone3-XXVII inc.
Producers: Brigitte Lemonde, Robert Montour VRAK, 10 x 60 mins
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Mixmania IIIZone3-XXVII inc.
Producers: Brigitte Lemonde, Robert Montour
NM Service Company: Turbulent Media
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| La Valse des continentsIdéacom international
Producer: Josette D. Normandeau SRC, TFO, Discovery Canada, ARTE (France) & 11 European Broadcasters, 5 x 52 mins
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WebGeolZénith ABC inc
Producer: Josette D. Normandeau
NM Service Company: LVL Studio |
| Fermier urbainProductions 3500
Producer: Brigitte Coutu SRC, 19 x 30 mins |
Fermier urbainProductions 3500
Producer: Brigitte Coutu
NM Service Company : Revolver 3
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| Sedna autour du monde: L’aventure humaineGlacialis Productions inc.
Producer: Jean Lemire SRC/RDI/Discovery World HD Canada, 13 x 30 mins
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1000 jours pour la planeteGlacialis Productions inc.
Producer: Jean Lemire
NM Service Company: Turbulent Media
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The following projects received Low Budget Production Grants under the Bell Fund’s Production Program:
| BROADCAST | NEW MEDIA |
| The GuideSivumu Northern Productions
Executive Producers: Madeline Ivalu, Susan Avingaq Producers: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Ari A. Cohen APTN, 6 x 30 mins
This documentary television series features respected Inuit mentors in Aboriginal communities working with local emerging leaders around social issues such as health, environment, arts, education and culture.
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The GuideSivumu Northern Productions
Producers: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Ari A. Cohen
NM Service Company: Sivumu Northern Productions
A modular website that will build community and offer the user different opportunities to interact with the mentors, find a mentor, stay up to date with news and events in the mentoring community and a behind the scenes of the television show. |
| King Season IIKing Film Production II Inc.
Executive Producer: Greg Spottiswood, Bernie Zukerman Producer: Manny Danelon, David Barlow Shaw Media, 13 x 60 mins
Jessica King is the lead investigator on Toronto’s Major Crimes Unit handling the city’s most challenging cases. But Jess is also going to be a mother and her third marriage is on the line. Can she have it all?
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King Season II – Interactive Case FilesSecret Location
Producers: James Milward, CJ Hervey
Case File Videos will provide additional, spreadable content to fans which will be integrated into a Facebook based social network and tool to drive audience conversation and viewership.
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| MinimopsYowza Digital Inc.
Executive Producer: Pete Denomme, Claude Chiasson Producers: Heather Walker TVO, 39 x 7 mins
The Minimops are a band of seven musical moppets and their dancing dog Banjo who explore the world around them through the magic of music and music appreciation.
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MinimopsYowza Digital Inc.
Producer: Heather Walker
NM Service Company: Ndi Media
A suite of new mini-games for preschoolers that help children discover the world of music and the creative use of various sounds in music. |
| Eat St. Season IIIFastlane Foods (3) Productions Inc.
Executive Producer: David Paperny, Audrey Mehler, Peter Waal, Cal Shumiatcher Producer: Cal Shumiatcher, Trevor Hodgson Food Network, 15 x 30 mins, 1 x 60 mins
With 63 new vendors from cities across North America, Eat St. returns for its third season in search of the most daring, delicious and inventive street food available.
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Eat St. Digital – Phase IIPaperny Entertainment
Executive Producer: Cal Shumiatcher Producer: Trevor Hodgson
Building on the success of the first mobile app release, Phase 2 will re-vamp the app to include additional social content including reviews, check-ins, photos and add a gaming-layer to encourage more sharing. |
| The Carbon RushWide Open Exposure
Producer: Amy Miller, Byron A. Martin Superchannel, Tele-Quebec, LINK TV 1 x 90 mins
The Carbon Rush reveals the true cost of carbon trading in the misunderstood world of the carbon “green-gold” market.
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The Carbon RushCarbon Rush Inc.
Producer: Amy Miller
NM Service Company: Turbulent Media
In addition to additional background information from the documentary, this website features a simulation game which allows the user to understand the consequences of the decisions they make on the carbon market and by extension, pollution and the planet.
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The following French language project received Low Budget Production Grants under the Bell Fund’s Production Program:
| InfirmièresAmazone Films
Producer: Jannine Gagné SRC, RDI, 1 x 52 mins
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InfirmièresAmazone Films
Producer: Jannine Gagné
NM Service Company: Version 10
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The following projects received Development Grants under the Bell Fund’s Development Program:
| Real Therapy InteractiveiThentic Canada Inc.
Lisa Baylin Shaw Media
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Groj BandSecret Location
James Milward Teletoon
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| Travel + Escape’s Top TenGlassBOX Media Inc
Raja Khanna Travel + Escape
NM Service Company: Michael Yokota |
The following organizations received Professional Development funding:
Whistler Film Summit Media Lab
Whistler Film Festival
Merging + Media Toronto
CMPA
NUMIX 2012
Regroupment des producteurs multimedias
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 new 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. In the past 14 years, the Bell Fund has invested over $100M in over 1,000 Canadian new media projects, television programs, development grants and support for research and professional development.
The Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund receives annual contributions of approximately $13 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 new media industry. The Fund is administered by the Independent Production Fund.
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For further information:
| 416-977-8154bellfund@ipf.ca
www.bellfund.ca |
514-845-4418 www.fondsbell.ca |