Montreal: The board of directors of the Independent Production Fund has approved two changes to its operations and application eligibility rules.

Due to the weighted demand for funding in the first quarter of the year, ipf has combined its late summer and fall deadlines, thereby creating three deadlines per year: Feb. 15, April 15 and Oct. 1.

Due to the significant increase in applications for ipf drama series funding, ipf’s board has decided to focus on hour-long drama.

Eligible series must now be produced with episodes of 60 minutes running time. The new regulation does not apply to children’s, youth and family programming. Thirty-minute series in second or subsequent seasons that have previously received ipf investments will be ‘grandfathered’ and will remain eligible. *

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