Don’t miss the upcoming deadline: Production financing: March 11, 2019 | Discoverability financing more than $75,000: March 11, 2019
Production funding is available for fully developed, production-ready proposals to create, launch, promote, and drive reach and engagement leading up to and during the first year of the launch.
Monday, March 11th, 2019
Save to calendarReview the checklist below and the program guidelines:
PDFSubmit your application form to info@telusfund.ca:
MSWordWe will confirm eligibility within 5 business days. You will receive a funding decision within 8 to 10 weeks.
Positive funding decisions will have 90 days to meet our due diligence requirements and enter into a long form financing agreement.
The Applicant is primarily in the business of producing professional media content,
headquartered in Canada,
a for-profit taxable corporation (within the meaning of Canada’s Income Tax Act),
Canadian-controlled (Sections 26 to 28 of the Investment Canada Act), and
the owner of sufficient copyright permissions to create and exploit the content.
The Content is story-driven and demonstrates the potential to entertain, engage and enlighten the health choices of Canadians,
includes a significant contribution from the Canadian independent production sector,
intends to achieve a minimum Canadian content points, with appropriate exceptions for international ventures,
includes support from an Expert Organization(s) committed to ensuring the highest standard in the treatment of the health issue
has obtained a commitment to transmit the Content to Canadians from Distribution Platform(s),
has obtained cash financing of at least 10% of the budget from Third Party Financer(s),
meets the definition of eligible program categories, except News, Reporting and Actualities, or Sports, and
does not include plans to create or enhance a platform for transmitting programming.