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Funding
Harold Greenberg Fund helps market Canadians at Slamdance
The Canadian indie films Roller Town and Comforting Skin received support to market themselves to distributors and rival festivals.
CMF dangles carrot to encourage more kids and doc shows on air
The industry is tweaking so-called factor weights used to calculate broadcaster performance envelopes to get more homegrown genre programming and digital media extensions made.
CMF pours $16 million into mobile apps and interactive content
The industry fund is signalling a subtle shift from a focus on linear digital content with interactive elements to investing in innovation software with a better chance for payback.
Quebecor Fund invests $785,000 in latest round
Les Boys prequel Les Boys le premier chapitre and concert special Le Ranche a Willie are among the recipients for third round-funding in the Event and Film Production Assistance Program.
Transmedia: Saviour for Canadian TV, or its successor? Part 3
Here’s a surprise: Canada is awash in production dollars for transmedia. In the third and final instalment of our series on cross-platform production, Playback tells producers where the treasure is buried, and how to raise it from funders.
Octavia Films creates grant program for short films
The Toronto-based non-profit is offering up grants of $500, $1000 and $2000 for emerging female filmmakers between the ages of 18 and 30.
Telefim invests $9.2 million in French film
Eight French-language films will receive funding in the first round of the Canada Feature Film Fund.
CRTC announces LPIF review
The planned review will evaluate the Local Programming Improvement Fund to determine whether it should be maintained, modified or cancelled.
Alberta revises funding model, boosts cash incentives for film and TV shoots
Changes to the Albertan ownership criteria for qualifying indigenous and foreign productions will increase the value of direct grants available from the province.
IPF and Cogeco commit to expanded funding mandates
Over the next three years, the IPF will make web series funding a focus after a two-year experimental program, while the Cogeco Fund will continue to fund Canadian television drama series as part of a broadened mandate.
Harold Greenberg Fund: $3.6 million invested in 2010-11
The industry fund’s latest annual report reveals coin for 180 projects from early-stage inception to polish and packaging.
Telefilm and Rogers Group of Funds award $1.35 million for docs
A total of eight films are being supported through the Theatrical Documentary Program, including Patrick Reed’s Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children.
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