CMF provides $3M in funding to 39 companies through the Slate Development Pilot Program
Toronto, March 10, 2022 – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) today announced it will provide close to $3M in funding to 39 companies through the Slate Development Pilot Program. Each funded company will receive $75,000 to develop up to three projects.
A total of 26 of the 39 funded companies work on English-language content and 13 focus on the French-language market. A substantial portion of this funding will go to regional companies, with 18 out of 39 companies being based outside Toronto and Montreal.
The Slate Development Pilot Program is designed to offer more flexibility to eligible applicants and allow them to choose and fund their development projects without the requirement of an attached Canadian broadcaster, or other triggering entity.
The following companies will receive funding per language and genre.
English
Children's & Youth
- Boat Rocker Media Inc.
- Sinking Ship Entertainment Inc.
- Breakthrough Film & Television Inc.
- Apartment 11 Productions Inc.
- GAPC Entertainment Inc.
- Six Eleven Media Inc.
Documentary
- Thunderbird Entertainment Inc.
- Entertainment One Television Productions Ltd.
- Omnifilm Entertainment Ltd.
- Eye Steel Film Inc.
- Noble Television Inc.
- Infield Fly Productions Inc.
- Media Headquarters Film & Television Inc.
- White Pine Pictures Inc.
- Boxer Four Entertainment Inc.
- Merit Motion Pictures Inc.
- Peg Leg Films Inc.
- Kensington Communications Inc.
- WAM Media GRP Inc.
- Curious Features Inc.
- Lark Productions Inc.
- Sunday Night Entertainment Inc.
- Tell Tale Productions Inc.
- 90th Parallel Productions Ltd.
- Peacock Alley Entertainment Inc.
- Downstream Documentary Productions Inc.
French
Children's & Youth
- Les Productions Passez Go Inc.
- Trio Orange Inc.
- Productions KOTV Inc.
- Slalom Productions Inc.
- Téléfiction Productions Inc.
Documentary
- Idéacom International Inc.
- PVP MEDIA inc.
- Productions Pixcom Inc.
- Zone3 INC.
- Productions Nova Média Inc.
- Gestion Avanti Ciné Vidéo Inc.
- Sphère Média inc.
- Attraction Images Inc.
About the Canada Media Fund
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, promotes, develops and finances the production of Canadian content and relevant applications for all audiovisual media platforms. The CMF guides Canadian content towards a competitive global environment through fostering industry innovation, rewarding success, enabling a diversity of voice and promoting access to content through industry and private sector partnerships. To learn more, please visit cmf-fmc.ca.
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For more information, please contact:
Mireille Darveau
Canada Media Fund
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André Ferreira
Senior Communications Manager
Canada Media Fund
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