Update: Edmonton’s High School Brawl and Toronto’s Hellmington won The Cinecoup Big Deal. Congrats to BOTH @HSBMovie & @HellmingtonFilm for nabbing the Big Deal. Now… Read More »CINECOUP: $1 Million Big Deal Pitch Event at Banff World Media Festival Today
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… Read More »FILM ACCELERATOR: From the Folks Who Brought You WOLFCOP, CineCoup’s 2nd $1-Million Film Accelerator Launches Tonight
WolfCop the movie premieres in western Canadian theatres today and Vancouver indie producer CineCoup already green lit a sequel, with a shoot planned this Fall in… Read More »CINECOUP: WOLFCOP in Theatres Today & Sequel Starts Shooting This Fall
Half-cop half-wolf all-WolfCop the movie will be released in Canadian theatres on June 6th, almost a year to the day that the Regina team won $1-million… Read More »TRAILER: CineCoup Film Accelerator Winner WOLFCOP in Theatres on June 6th
Update June 10, 2013 – Regina’s Wolf Cop won the $1-million in production financing and guaranteed release.
After three-month-plus of missions and endless unpaid work, it all came down to one pitch to a panel of film industry executives (including uber Canadian filmmaker Robert Lantos) at the Banff Media Festival. The panel took about ten minutes or so to deliberate and then chose Regina’s Wolfcop — Dirty Harry…only Hairier — from five CineCoup film accelerator finalists to win the up to $1 million in film production finacing and guaranteed movie release next year in Cineplex theatres. Three Vancouver teams — Alien Abduction, Bad and Grade Nine — drowned their sorrows with beer along with Edmonton team Uprising. But the top ten projects have all been optioned and there is some crowd-sourcing funds available so all of their movies could be made after they catch up on sleep and regroup. Here are the CineCoup Final Five videos:
ALIEN ABDUCTION
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BAD
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Read More »CINECOUP: Final 5 Video Pitches from ALIEN ABDUCTION, BAD & GRADE NINE at Banff
Update June 10, 2013 – Regina’s Wolf Cop won the $1-million in production financing and guaranteed release.
After three months of missions, CineCoup’s film accelerator has advanced three Vancouver teams — sci-fi comedy Alien Abduction, crime drama Bad and dramedy Grade Nine — one Edmonton team — sci-fi thriller The Uprising — and one Regina team — horror fantasy Wolfcop — to the final five. All five finalists are based in western Canada, so they won’t have far to travel to pitch their projects to a panel of film industry professionals at the Banff Media Festival on June 10th. At stake: up to $1-milliion in production financing and guaranteed theatrical release through Cineplex next year.
Click on the key art to go to CineCoup page for each finalist.
Read More »CINECOUP: ALIEN ABDUCTION, BAD & GRADE NINE in Film Accelerator’s Final Five
Published May 31st on Vancouver is Awesome
Update June 10, 2013 – Regina’s Wolf Cop won the $1-million in production financing and guaranteed release.
How did this crazy-good film-accelerator competition start? Back at VIFF’s Film & TV Forum, CineCoup founder and Vancouver digital media entrepreneur J. Joly made a two-hour presentation and then took it on the road to other major cities across Canada. The official launch party took place at the Whistler Film Festival in early December. Word spread and 90 teams from every region submitted two-minute trailers and then began weekly filmmaker missions in March 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 in mid-May, with six of the finalists from here —Alien Abduction, Bad, Grade Nine, Scam, The Fall and The Mill and the Mountain. Let me repeat: six out of ten from Vancouver!
Read More »BIG READ: Vote for 6 Vancouver Film Teams Vying for CINECOUP’s $1-Million – Updated