Early this morning Telefilm Canada, the Crown corporation that, among other things, funds Canadian filmmakers and their projects, released a statement to the press regarding a controversial denial of a grant requested by Canadian livestreamer and filmmaker-hopeful ‘Aspecticor.’
The statement read:
We were approached via E-mail by one ‘Aspecticor’ to potentially finance a film he titled ‘Whispers of Halifax’ on the 28th of March. Due to a variety of issues with the request, we denied the application.
The statement continued later:
In the director’s request, he described the film as “The Doodlebops meets Oppenheimer” starring “Julie Dreyfus-Louie.”
We noticed in his synopsis of the plot he got very basic details wrong about the Halifax Explosion of 1917. When asked, he said “I’m just trying to figure out what that Heritage Minute didn’t have time to say, they should be Heritage Hours, in my opinion, Heritage Days possibly, more time, more time, more time.”
‘Aspecticor’ has not responded yet, he potentially does not even know that his opus isn’t receiving funding until he is reading this very article.