TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) will invest $4.5M in the production of nine innovative digital media projects that applied for funding to the Experimental Stream Commercial Projects Pilot Program.
Funding through the Commercial Projects Pilot Program is designed to support Canadian interactive, innovative and leading-edge digital media content and software applications which have an increased emphasis on commercial success.
Seven of the projects receiving an investment as part of this program are games and two are rich interactive media. Of the companies developing these projects, Alberta and British Columbia each have one, while four are based in Ontario and three in Québec. Click here for a list of the projects.
The Experimental Stream encourages the creation of innovative, interactive digital media content and software applications. Including this latest round of funding, the CMF has invested $191M in the production of 337 interactive digital media projects since the Experimental Stream was created in 2010.
