CMF funding triggered $1.7B in industry activity in 2022-23, annual report says

TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) released Wednesday its annual report, which shows the not-for-profit funding body’s investments in Canada’s screen-based industries activated $1.7 billion in industry activity during the 2022-2023 fiscal year. In addition, CMF funding this past fiscal year continued to help advance opportunities for creators and stories from Indigenous and equity-seeking communities, according to a press release announcing the annual report’s publication and findings. The CMF says its programs provided a total of $360.3 million in funding for the prototyping, development, production, promotion and export of 1,334 television and interactive digital media projects in 2022-2023. “Every CMF...