Among the 11 new Indigenous feature films that Telefilm Canada announced that they'll be funding will be three from B.C. filmmakers.

The national organization announced on August 8 that they will be allocating $4.7-million in financing for these features.

Seven of the projects are headed up by female filmmakers, thus making good on Telefilm's commitment to addressing gender disparity in Canadian screen industries. That's in addition to their support of works by Indigenous filmmakers.

Projects from B.C. include Marie Clements' first narrative feature Red Snow. Clements recently released documentary-musical The Road Forward, explored the history and legacy of the B.C.–based Native Voice newspaper and the Indigenous activism related to it.

Local filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers will write and direct the dramatic feature Stay. Tailfeathers starred in the feature film On the Farm, about women living in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside during the period before the arrest of serial killer Robert William Pickton.

A third B.C. film is Edge of the Knife, a drama directed by Gwaai Edenshaw and written by Jaalan Edenshaw.

Inuit actor Lucy Tulugarjuk, who has starred in Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner and Maliglutit, will direct the action-adventure feature Ababa and Pingua, to be produced by Marie-Hélène Cousineau (Uvanga).

Here is the list of approved projects:

Edge of the Knife, drama, BC

Director: Gwaai Edenshaw

Writer: Jaalan Edenshaw

Producer: Jonathan Frantz

Red Snow, drama, BC

Director: Marie Clements            

Writer: Marie Clements               

Producer: Marie Clements (Lael McCall, Michelle Morris)

Red Eye, science-fiction/fantasy, AB

Director: Benjamin Ross Hayden

Writer:  Benjamin Ross Hayden

Producer: Carolyn McMaster

Stay, drama, BC

Director: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Writer:  Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Producer: Tyler Hagan

Corruption of Divine Providence, drama, MB

Director: Jeremy Torrie

Writer:  Jeremy Torrie

Producer: Tanya Brunel

Rustic Oracle, drama, QC

Director: Sonia Bonspille-Boileau

Writer:  Sonia Bonspille-Boileau

Producer: Jason Brennan

Sedna, "Empress of the Sea", animation, QC

Director: Jerry Thevenet

Writer:  Jerry Thevenet

Producer: Jerry Thevenet

Rebirth 8:37, drama, NS

Director: Juanita Peters

Writer:  Joe Leclair

Producer: Hank White

Ababa and Pingua, action/adventure, NV

Director: Lucy Tulugarjuk

Writer:  Lucy Tulugarjuk

Producer: Marie-Hélène Cousineau

Leaves Fall Around Her, thriller, ON

Director: Darlene Naponse

Writer:  Darlene Naponse

Producer: Darlene Naponse

The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw, comedy, ON

Director: Shelley Niro

Writer:  Shelley Niro

Producer: Shelley Niro