MONTREAL – Eleven Canadian production companies will receive more than $2 million in funding under the Quebecor Fund's Main Television Production Assistance Program (MPAP) following April 1, 2016 submissions.
In this round, Quebecor Fund will disburse a total of $2,865,000 to 9223-3287 Québec inc. (Wabanok), La Voix Télévision Inc. (Productions Déferlantes inc.), District 31 inc. (Aetios Productions inc.), Zone3 inc., Productions Pixcom inc., TVA Productions inc., Productions GFP (VII) inc. (Groupe Fair-Play), Les Productions Bazzo Bazzo inc., Télévision Illimitée inc. (Productions Déferlantes inc.), Attraction Images Productions inc. and DATSIT Studios Quinze inc.
The eleven selected productions are slated to air on Canadian broadcasters APTN, TVA, ICI Radio-Canada, Télé-Québec, Historia (Corus Media) and ARTV.
Since its inception in 1999, Quebecor Fund's MPAP has supported 222 projects involving 69 production companies, 39 Canadian broadcasters and 26 foreign broadcasters. During this period, the Fund has distributed more than $62 million to support the multiplatform components of the funded projects (which amounts to 71% of the total sums invested in multimedia by the participating production companies) and more than $7 million to support the television components of the same projects, for a total of nearly $70 million.
The date of the next round of funding under MPAP is October 3, 2016.
