CMF and IPF team up for $600,000 short form content program

TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund announced today it will strategically partner with the Independent Production Fund on a recently announced Development Packaging Program “designed to support the development of high quality, Canadian, original, scripted short-form drama series,” reads the press release.The budget of the Development Packaging Program: Short Form Scripted Series is set at $600,000."After assessing the market needs for programs supporting short-form series at various stages of production, the CMF launched its Web Series Program in 2016. We now see a need to provide additional support for this type of content at the development stage,” said Nathalie Clermont,...