TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced that 31 projects will receive a total of $19.7 million in funding through three of its programs.
A total of $9.9M will be invested in 16 digital media projects through the second round of funding of its Experimental Stream’s Innovation Program, which encourages the creation of interactive digital media content and software applications. The projects include 11 games, four rich interactive media and one software application. Click here for more on the projects.
The CMF will also invest an additional $6.6M in nine projects through the Commercial Projects Pilot Program. Funding through this program is designed to support Canadian interactive digital media content and software applications which have an increased emphasis on commercial success. The funded projects include seven games and two rich interactive media.
Lastly, six convergent projects will receive $3.2M in funding as part of the second round of production financing under the Francophone Minority Program which supports projects which reflect the realities of living in French-language communities outside Québec. These new productions, created for television and digital media, include one from New Brunswick, one from Nova Scotia and four from Ontario. Three are children’s and youth projects, two are variety and performing arts productions and one is a drama project.
The Canada Media Fund fosters, develops, finances and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms.
