CMF awards $4.5 million to 9 Canadian digital media projects

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...