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The Harold Greenberg Fund: 20 Years of Success
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by: Jun 12, 2006 Print

April 11, 1986
The date Astral Media launches the Foundation to Underwrite New Drama for Pay Television (FUND)

Le Fonds Harold Greenberg
The French-language funding program is created in 1996. The English program is simultaneously renamed The Harold Greenberg Fund, in honor of Astral's late cofounder and head

The Movie Network, Family Channel, Viewers Choice
Astral-owned pay, specialty and pay-per-view channels that sponsor the HGF

Four
The number of programs offered by the fund, including: script development, family film, equity investment and training grants

Ordinary Magic (aka Ganesh)
In 1991, the feature drama production, starring a teenaged Ryan Reynolds, Glenne Headly and Paul Anka, marks the fund's first equity investment

$48.8 million
The estimated amount invested in film and TV projects to date by The Harold Greenberg Fund and Le Fonds Harold Greenberg

2,327
The overall number of projects financed by the English and French funds



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