TORONTO — The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) announced today six creative projects have been awarded a total of $510,000 as part of the next phase of the UK-Canada Immersive Exchange, the talent development and co-production program for U.K. and Canadian immersive technology creatives and producers that was launched last year.
A total of 24 participants (12 from the U.K. and 12 from Canada) were originally chosen from 500 applications for the talent development phase of the exchange, which concluded in February 2021. The chosen participants included six creative leads (a mixture of artists, filmmakers, theatre directors and innovators) and six creative producers from each country.
From this talent development group, six co-productions have been chosen, including two “audience-ready” projects (each receiving a total of up to $170,000) and four “prototype” projects (each receiving approximately $40,000), with the finished projects expected to preview in early 2022.
“The immersive experiences that will receive funding and further support during this next stage of the UK-Canada Immersive Exchange include VR, AR and spatial audio content that range from social impact-centric stories to wildly entertaining experiences,” said Laura Mingail, program co-lead of the UK-Canada Immersive Exchange, on behalf of the CFC Media Lab, in a press release.
“This range of content would not have been possible without having started with such a diverse cohort in terms of both backgrounds and experiences.”
The exchange initiative is supported by an international partnership between StoryFutures Academy (run by the U.K.’s National Film and Television School and Royal Holloway, University of London), Arts Council England, the Canada Media Fund, the CFC Media Lab and the Canada Council for the Arts.
For details of the six U.K.-Canadian co-productions chosen to receive funding, please click here.
Photo borrowed from the CFC’s website.
