The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) is allocating more than $8 million across 18 production-stage projects via the Canada Media Fund’s (CMF) Indigenous Program.

The 2025-26 selections represent the first since the ISO began administration of the program, which was originally announced at the 2024 Banff World Media Festival.

Eight of the projects are documentaries, seven are for children and youth and three are dramas.

By region, six projects are from Nunavut, with three each hailing from Quebec and Alberta, two each from B.C. and Manitoba, and the final two originating in Ontario and Saskatchewan, respectively.

The 2025-26 selections for production funding are listed below, organized by genre:

Documentary

Aayaanischaa: Generation to Generation
Production company: Rezolution Pictures
Region: Quebec
Commitment: $550,000

Sanajiit (Inuit Makers) (season two)
Production company: Isuma
Region: Nunavut
Commitment: $550,000

Myth and Memory: The Untold Story of the Franklin Expedition
Production company: Myth and Memory
Region: Ontario
Commitment: $550,000

kitcikisik/Great Sky
Production company: Red Earth Blue Sky Productions
Region: Alberta
Commitment: $475,800

Guerriers de demain (season two)
Production company: Oraquan Médias
Region: Quebec
Commitment: $402,500

AKI
Production company: First Nation Creation Productions
Region: Alberta
Commitment: $397,700

Indigena
Production company: Arc-en-ciel Films
Region: B.C.
Commitment: $224,100

Les couleurs du passé
Production company: Oraquan Médias
Region: Quebec
Commitment: $200,900

Children and youth

Stevie and the Sacred Animals
Production company: Eagle Vision
Region: Manitoba
Commitment: $550,000

Uqalimaaqatigiikta
Production company: Uqalimaaqatigiikta Media 1
Region: Nunavut
Commitment: $550,000

The Trading Post – Adventures with Rain
Production company: Herd of 1 Media
Region: Alberta
Commitment: $550,000

Kiiq!
Production company: Kiiq! 1
Region: Nunavut
Commitment: $550,000

Kuluk (season three)
Production company: Aakuluk Media
Region: Nunavut
Commitment: $359,000

Nakon’i’a with Kunsi
Production company: Start Productions
Region: Saskatchewan
Commitment: $247,700

Kokum & Dot (pictured)
Production company: Kokum D Productions
Region: B.C.
Commitment: $50,000

Drama

Kiviuq Iguttarjuarlu (Kiviuq and the Bee Woman)
Production company: Kiviuq Media 1
Region: Nunavut
Commitment: $750,000

Pihkohowin
Production company: Pihkohowin Productions
Region: Manitoba
Commitment: $750,000

Arnattaujuup Unikkaaqtuaqtangit
Production company: Arnaktauyok Media 1
Region: Nunavut
Commitment: $325,000

Image courtesy of Telus Independent