TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund will award more than $6.2 million in development and marketing support to digital media projects as part of the second round of funding in its 2017-2018 Experimental Stream’s Innovation Program.
A total of 19 Canadian companies received support totaling $4.2M to develop 12 games, five rich interactive media applications and two software applications. Development support provides funding for the conceptualization of an eligible project and/or for the development of the creative and technical elements of an eligible project and the drafting of a product proposal for business development and financing purposes. Click here for the list of new projects that received development support.
The CMF said that it will also invest $2M in marketing support to eight interactive digital media projects, of which two are games, three rich interactive media applications and three software applications. Click here to access a list of projects and their description that received marketing support.
The CMF has contributed more than $77.5M in development and marketing support to 354 interactive digital media projects since the Experimental Stream was created in 2010.
