Extended deadlines for English Production Incentive Program

Toronto, December 2, 2013- The Canada Media Fund (CMF) would like to inform applicants that it is extending the deadlines of the following incentive: English Production Incentive.

Applicants will have until January 14th to apply for the incentives or until all funds have been depleted, whichever comes first.

A total of $4.5M is available to eligible projects for the English Production Incentive. Only eligible applicants in the following provinces can apply to the English Production Incentive Program: Alberta, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and Yukon.

Please note that all CMF applications must be submitted by eTelefilm. Register now to receive a PIN by mail within 5 days if you do not already have one.

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:

Pierre Campeau
Communications Manager
Canada Media Fund
pcampeau@cmf-fmc.ca
416-554-2768