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Funding
CRTC allows Sportsnet 360 tangible benefits change
After consultation with schools, the channel got the greenlight to divvy up its $2.5 million digital media production scholarship budget to include other educational initiatives.
Bell Fund distributes $5.4M across 30 projects
Among the series and digital media companions receiving funding were W Network’s The Bachelorette Canada and the second season of City’s Between (pictured).
Bedward’s Foreigner wins two WIFT-T Showcase prizes
The winners of the WIFT-T BravoFACT Pitch Competition were also revealed at the event. (The Foreigner pictured.)
In brief: CMF/Screen Australia coin; Dead of Summer’s B.C. shoot
Screen Australia and the CMF distribute $700,000 across three digital coproductions, Dead of Summer starts production in Vancouver, plus more news from the week.
Fed turns on the culture taps
The Liberal government delivered its first budget this week, promising millions in funding for the CBC/Radio-Canada, as well as Telefilm and the NFB.
CMF invests $1.1M across three digital copros
The projects were backed by the Canada-New Zealand Digital Media Fund, now in its second year.
Quebecor Fund distributes $644K across three projects
Attraction Images’ Pieds nus dans l’aube was among the projects to receive funding through the Event and Film Production Assistance Program.
IPF invested $1.8M in web series in 2015: report
Of the web series projects backed in 2015, nine were English-language and five were French-language, says the Independent Production Fund’s annual report.
HGF invests $400K across 30 film projects
Among the films picking up funding are new feature film projects from Don McKellar and Stephen Dunn.
Canada/Italy fund invests 200K across 6 docs
Foundry Films’ copro A Life Beyond Earth was among the projects to pick up development coin.
CMF invests $6.3M across 31 digital projects
Projects from Quebec’s Frima Studios and Ontario’s Finish Line Games were among those to pick up funding in this latest round.
BravoFACTUAL awards $434K to short docs
The Hunted from Nimisha Mukerji and Lindsay George was among 10 short docs to receive funding.
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