Improved and Streamlined Gross Sales and Exploitation Reports

Toronto, December 16, 2013 – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) informs all applicants that the Exploitation and Gross Sales Reports reports have been combined into one report. Applicants will benefit from filling out one streamlined report and will able to track its status once it has been submitted.

Both reports have been simplified into an online form that will be available as of Thursday, January 2, 2014. The CMF will no longer accept hardcopy (paper) applications for this reporting period. All Exploitation and Gross Sales reports are due February 1st, 2014.

To access the new online forms, applicants must have an eTelefilm account. Click here to register for an eTelefilm account. Once they have submitted a registration request, applicants will receive an activation link by email and a Personal Identification Number (PIN) by mail within five business days. This information will allow the applicant to open a permanent account that can then be used by the same applicant for any number of applications they submit thereafter.

For information and technical support on the new Gross Sales and Exploitation report, please contact [email protected]

For information and technical support on eTelefilm, please contact [email protected] or call 1-800-567-0890, ext. 3911, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET.

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 voice and promoting access to content through public and private sector partnerships. Please visit www.cmf-fmc.ca.

The CMF’s Canadaonscreen.ca is a website designed to showcase and celebrate Canadian creative talent and content destined for all types of screens, from television productions to games, Web content and software and applications.

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For more information, please contact:

Maurice Boucher
Director, Marketing and Communications
Canada Media Fund
514.496.6048
[email protected]