CMF invests nearly $750,000 through spring 2025 round of Sector Development Support program
Toronto, September 11, 2025 — The Canada Media Fund (CMF) today announced the projects selected for funding through the spring 2025 round of the Sector Development Support program. 15 market access and capacity building initiatives will receive a total of $747,783 as a result of this round of funding.
In line with the goals of the Sector Development Support program, a majority of the selected projects hail from outside the main cultural production hubs of Toronto and Montreal. Five projects will be led out of Quebec, four out of Manitoba, two out of British Columbia, and one each out of Alberta, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories, and Ontario. English-language initiatives will receive 67 per cent of the funding, and French-language or bilingual ones will receive 33 per cent.
Our Sector Development Support program is project-based funding to support industry initiatives which demonstrate the potential to positively impact Canada’s audiovisual ecosystem by addressing industry gaps in distinct and identified areas, including Canada’s regions and Indigenous and Equity-Deserving Communities. A second funding round opens on November 4, 2025.
About the Canada Media Fund
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, develops, finances, and promotes the production of Canadian content and applications for all audiovisual media platforms. The CMF guides Canadian content towards a competitive global environment by fostering industry innovation, rewarding success, enabling a diversity of voices, and promoting access to content through public and private sector partnerships. The CMF receives financial contributions from the Government of Canada and Canada’s cable, satellite, and IPTV distributors. Visit our website for more information.
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