Atlantic Canada Business Grants

Shorts-to-Features Program

  • This program is currently closed.

Amount:

$37,000.00

Type of Program:

Grants & Loan

Description:

The Shorts-to-Features Program is designed to finance the production of three short films, in the amount of $32,000 each, from emerging Canadian filmmakers to use as a calling card for their first feature film, in addition to a commitment of a further $5,000 to develop a second draft of their feature script. Eligible projects need to show how the short film relates creatively to a feature film currently in development.

Comments on Funding:

Funding comes as a prize of $32,000.
The Fund guarantees a further commitment of $5,000 per project in the form of a script development loan to go from First Draft to Second Draft. 

When It Ends:

Closed

Deadline:

December 2020

Eligibility:

​Applicants must:

  • be filmmaking teams, writer/director/producer. The writer, producer and director must not have had a credit on a feature in one of these three disciplines.
  • be Canadian (Canadian citizenship or Permanent Residents).
  • produce a short film between 5 and 10mins, with intentions to be certified by Canadian content.
  • work with an executive producer (EP) who meets the Fund’s Script Development/Equity Investment Program eligibility criteria - this person must be a Canadian and have produced at least one feature film within the last seven years. This individual will act as a mentor throughout the film’s production.

Application Steps:

The applicant must submit:

1

the application through the online submission portal located at Bellmedia.ca.,

2

the supporting documents as separate PDFs zipped into one .zip file

Documentation Needed: 

​The applicant must submit:

  1. 1
    the application,
  2. 2
    a script between 5 and 10 pages (scripts longer than 10 pages will NOT be accepted),
  3. 3
    the synopsis of short script (100-200 words) and the synopsis of feature script (300-500 words),
  4. 4
    a statement from the team on how this short can represent a calling card for a feature project in the future,
  5. 5
    a one page director’s vision statement, 
  1. 6
    a feature script (80-120 pages) which relates to the short film,
  2. 7
    a one-or-two page resumes for writer, director, producer,
  3. 8
    a production Budget,
  4. 9
    the executive producer letter of interest or a wishlist of potential EPs,
  5. 10
    one or two previous short films from the director (link/url – no DVDs).

Other Things to Note:

Harold Greenberg Fund ceased operations in 2021.

Program Contact:

​Home - Bell Media

​About ‘The Fund’

​Harold Greenberg Fund to cease operations later this year​​​

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