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Funding
Bell Fund awards $3.35 million in latest round
Bell Fund executive director Andra Sheffer tells Playback Daily about the Fund’s selection process and why kids and documentary properties excel online.
Muse, Cineflix among seven prodcos to receive Quebecor Fund cash
Over $2.7 million will be distributed among seven prodcos for television projects including Pixcom’s Bomb Hunters and TVA’s Le Tricheur.
Telefilm unveils new Success Index
The new measurement tool will include awards and international sales, in addition to box office, when measuring a film’s performance.
New Brunswick unwraps new tax credit
The new incentive, to cover up to 30% of eligible production expenditures, replaces a 40% tax credit cancelled in March 2011.
OMDC and Telefilm lead India mission to drum up copros
The week-long visit, which starts today, will make stops in Mumbai, Goa and at major Bollywood studios and facilities.
Rogers Documentary Fund announces more grantees
The fund has awarded $1.6 million in grants to 25 doc projects in a move that it is calling “an unprecedented show of support for independent documentary producers.”
Canadian primetime programming faring well: CMF
However, the Canada Media Fund’s annual report reveals that viewership to its funded programming categories declined, as Canadians flipped the dial to popular unscripted fare.
CMPA calls for hearing into ‘caster support for Canadian film
The producers’ association unveiled two studies this week to back a call for more investment by domestic broadcasters in homegrown feature films.
Harold Greenberg Fund lifts five film scripts to pre-production
The industry fund has given another 29 new and ongoing film projects key early-stage financing.
CMF embraces Terms of Trade Agreement
The Canada Media Fund defers to the producer-broadcaster agreement with new guidelines on licence fees and programming rights.
Film trio lands equity support from Harold Greenberg Fund
Whizbang Films’ Cottage Country is among three features receiving support through the Fund’s Equity Investment Program.
CMF pours $3.4 million into docs
Sixteen convergent projects have landed support through the Canada Media Fund’s English POV Program.
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