Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund has got the right idea.

Their Shorts-to-Features program will fund three short films for $30K AND chip in another $10K to take the feature script to the next draft.

In other words, they’re condensing the “shorts are a stepping stone to features” journey into ONE project. Brilliant!

“An initiative of Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund in association with Movie Central, and The Movie Network, the Shorts-to-Features program is designed to greenlight and finance the production of short films, in the amount of $30,000 each, from emerging Canadian filmmakers to use as a calling card for a feature film currently in development.”

The deadline is Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at midnight.

My take: If you have a feature script ready to go, for sure, apply!