Financing for Indigenous-made feature films

Get a contribution or equity investment to cover up to 30% of the production costs of a fictional, feature-length film. You could get an additional $100,000 if your project has a budget of less than $2.5 million and is being shot in a remote location or includes training/mentoring of Indigenous production talent.

• Canadian audiovisual production companies who:
• Have their head office in Canada.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR APPLICANTS

An applicant must meet all the following eligibility criteria:

• be a Canadian-controlled corporation, as determined under sections 26 to 28 of the Investment Canada Act;
  • have its head office in Canada and carry out its activities in Canada; and
  • operate as an audiovisual production company.

Furthermore, individual producers and other key production personnel exercising creative and financial control over the project submitted to Telefilm must be Canadian citizens, within the definition of the Citizenship Act, or permanent residents within the definition of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

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