The Canada Media Fund (CMF) is supporting six projects with $500,000 in production and development funds through the Indigenous Screen Office (ISO)’s 2024-25 Interactive and Immersive Program.

The program is part of the ISO’s Story Fund stream and allocates production and development funds to video​​ games, AR/VR/XR works, apps and immersive and/or interactive projects that include audiovisual content. CMF boarded as a partner last fall, bringing the program’s total budget to $900,000.

Three of the selected projects are from Ontario and include the immersive art installation Mekwâc: “Now Is Good” from James Monkman Studio, which received $87,500 in production funds; Untitled Evil Within, an XR/VR project from First Nation Creations Productions was awarded $60,000 in development funding; and the VR project Sunalimat from Tiger Mister Productions, which received $72,500 in development funding.

The remaining projects hail from B.C. They include the interactive art exhibition Ectopia from Tooth & Nail Pictures, which was allocated $85,000 in production funds; the video game The Drop from Spotted Fawn Productions, which received $72,500 in development funding; and the VR documentary Home – Piikaniksaahko (Piikani Land) from Blackfoot Nation Films, which was allocated $122,500 in production funding.

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