TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund has awarded $9.5 million in funding to 12 digital media projects as part of the first round of production support from its 2018-2019 Experimental Stream’s Innovation Program.
The Experimental Stream encourages the creation of interactive digital media content and software applications. Production support provides funding for the creation of a final, market-ready version of an eligible project and preliminary marketing and commercialization activities.
Audiences will have access to a variety of new digital content, including eight games, two software applications, and two rich interactive media application. Click here for the list of new projects that received development support.
In other news, the CMF announced that it has renewed its co-development and co-production agreement with Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB), the body responsible for film funding and media business development in the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg.
The total amount of funding available through the Canada-Germany Digital Media Incentive has been increased to approximately CAD $450,000, with each funding organization contributing half of the funds. The total maximum contribution for each project funded through the incentive is CAD $300,000.
To qualify, projects must involve producers eligible under both organizations’ criteria, be created for digital platforms, and can be either a game, web series, multiplatform content, augmented reality or virtual reality experiences. Projects will be evaluated according to a set of criteria, including innovative and creative elements, how they engage the targeted community and audience, the creative team, and the viability of the projects’ budget and timelines.
Submissions are open immediately and will close on December 4, 2018. More information, including the guidelines, is available here.
