Perceval (a film) Receives Harold Greenburg Funding

This is somewhat older news, but given the upcoming release of Toronto hardcore band Fucked Up’s latest EP, it felt like as good a time as any to acknowledge the support of Rawk Moving Pictures Inc. and the Harold Greenburg Fund who are supporting the development of Mike Haliechuk’s (from Fucked Up) and my screenplay called Perceval.

The script is an offshoot of the music for his band’s EP (the full title is The Year of the Horse Whose Name Was Perceval), and the lyrics are based on our screenplay. So it’s all a tight little world, and it’s all something I’ve felt really grateful to be working on with Mike over the last couple of years. Once pandemic hit, Mike and I had a little pause before getting back it. Where once our shared writing table was the Dufferin Mall Food Court, it soon became the parks and glens of Toronto.

The story itself draws from the medieval epic of Perceval, but we’ve set it in the old west among the dust and horses and violence of that world. We started thinking it would be a bit of an opera, but it has since morphed into an opera ballet complete with dancing apple trees, cacti, and stars come to life with the support of Todd Brown at Rawk Moving Pictures and the aforementioned Harold Greenburg funding.

I’ll share more information about the FU album (the music is really good) and some images are nigh (neigh), and of course, as the film continues to develop, I’ll try updates here.