
TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) provided $11.8 million to 24 interactive digital projects as part of its Experimental Stream second round of funding for production support.
The Experimental Stream encourages the creation of innovative, interactive digital media content and software applications.
Production support provides funding for the creation of a final, market-ready version of an eligible project and preliminary marketing and commercialization activities. The projects include 16 games, 5 interactive content, 1 social media platform and 2 software applications on devices such as Windows PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Wii U, PlayStation 4 and Vita, Xbox One, and Oculus Rift.
Including this round of funding, the CMF has already provided more than $116 million in production funding to 177 projects since the Experimental Stream was created in 2010.