As part of its Écrire au long program, an initiative of the Official Languages Activities (OLA) program, Telefilm Canada’s French Operations and Quebec Office is pleased to announce that 10 projects – five from outside Quebec and five from outside Montreal – have been selected to participate in Stage 1 – Pre-development. This first stage of the Écrire au long program consists of a writing workshop for the selected writers, a market immersion and training in fiction feature films for producers working in French outside Quebec or outside Montreal. The training will be given in Montreal by the Institut national de l’image et du son (INIS) from November 5 to 9, 2007.

Launched in December 2006, Écrire au long is intended to develop market-driven French-language feature film projects and to encourage creation in French in the regions.

The 10 projects selected for Stage 1 are notable for their originality and creativity and highlight the diversity of creators in the various French-speaking regions of Canada.

Projects from outside Quebec 

 Projects from outside Montreal

Subsequent stages of Écrire au long

• The writers of each of the selected projects will benefit from an eight-week rewriting period, with a $4,000 repayable advance and 10 hours of access to script consultants.
• Two of these 10 projects will then receive $20,000 in development support.

For more details on the Écrire au long call for projects, please see the Guidelines.