From the folks who brought you WolfCop: CineCoup’s 2nd film accelerator program launches in downtown Vancouver tonight with $1 million in production financing available for Canadian entrants. CineCoup is looking to repeat WolfCop’s success, calling for genre concepts with franchise potential like “sci-fi, horror, action, thriller and comedy (or documentaries that deal with pop culture tropes such as King of Kong, Indie Game: The Movie, Trekkies, etc.)”. For details click here: CineCoup Event.
What is WolfCop? Dirty Harry ….but hairier? Filmmaker Lowell Dean’s Saskatchewan-made movie is about alcoholic cop Lou Garou (Leo Fafard) who blacks out one too many times and wakes up a raging werewolf. Half cop. Half wolf. All WolfCop. Coming to DVD & BluRay next month.
What is the CineCoup Film Accelerator? 90 teams from every region in Canada submitted two-minute trailers two years ago and then began weekly filmmaker missions designed to help them package a pitch and build an early fan base with social media tools. Soon after, a trailer with clips from the entrants started a year-long run in 1200 Cineplex theatres nationwide. Over several rounds of fan votes, the 90 whittled down to ten, with six of the finalists from Vancouver –Alien Abduction, Bad, Grade Nine, Scam, The Fall and The Mill and the Mountain. The final five — Vancouver’s Alien Abduction, Bad and Grade Nine, Edmonton’s Uprising and Regina’s WolfCop — pitched to a panel of film industry professionals (including uber-Canadian filmmaker Robert Lantos) at the Banff Media Festival in June, 2013 and WolfCop won the $1-million in production financing and guaranteed theatrical release. It premiered in western Canadian theatres last June.
CineCoup’s inaugural film accelerator proved to be a winner takes all ….the financing and that’s a question worth asking tonight.