The Canada Media Fund will no longer award CAVCO scale points as part of its convergent stream for recognizable foreign narrators of homegrown documentaries.

As the industry fund unveiled its 2013-2014 program budget, guidelines and deadlines, the CMF pointed to an earlier exemption for a foreign narrator known to Canadian audiences and associated with the documentary subject introduced in April 2012.

The fund said the exemption aimed to doc makers “flexibility and greater market potential” for their projects.

The downside is CAVCO offers no similar exemption and will not certify the projects.

So the CMF is eliminating the exception in 2013-14.

The move runs counter to other Canadian government agencies streamlining rules and regulations for indie producers so they can tap greater co-production dollars and get their projects into the world market.

Other policy changes from the CMF include directing $3 million to a new anglophone minority program for English-language official-language minority communities in Quebec.

And the CMF will introduce two pilot programs for digital media projects.

The first, to receive $360,000, will fund partnerships with incubators or accelerators across Canada.

The second pilot program will allocate $350,000 to support international co-ventures in digital media.

The CMF said it would reveal the size of broadcasters’ performance envelopes in mid-April.