February 18, 2019 - Calling All Canadian Web Drama Series Producers/Creators! Do you have a scripted digital drama series looking for partners, funders, platforms, distributors, strategies, brands, audiences? Do you think that you could benefit professionally by attending the Banff World Media Festival? The IPF (ipf.ca) has partnered with BANFF [...]

Discoverability in the Context of Funding the Canadian Screen Media Industry is a pan-Canadian workshop series designed to raise awareness among executives about the challenges of discoverability and provide them with solutions for implementing audience development strategies. OCTOBER 11, 2018 – Magnify Digital, in partnership with the Canada Media Fund [...]

July 23, 2018 - Canadian web series were winners at the inaugural Stareable Fest Awards Ceremony on Sunday night in New York. Eleven Canadian web series were selected to participate in the official competition. In addition, a Best of Canada special screening session was curated and featured seven additional out-of-competition [...]

Toronto July 9, 2018 - Producers and creators of 18 scripted short-form web series produced in Canada have been invited to participate in the official program of Stareable Fest and in a Best of Canada Showcase screening session, in New York, July 20-22. Stareable.com which is the largest community of web [...]

June 21, 2018 - Seventeen (17) scripted short-form series designed and produced for exploitation on digital platforms and channels have been approved for funding by the Board of Directors of the IPF. Eleven (11) are in English and 6 are in French. Three of the approved projects are renewals for [...]

May 10, 2018 (Toronto/Montréal) – The Independent Production Fund announces funding decisions for the Cogeco TV Production Program deadline on April 3, 2018. The Independent Production Fund is pleased to congratulate the following companies on receiving production financing for their projects, which includes a total of 15 projects (7 English [...]

May 9, 2018 - The IPF is providing three Canadian web drama series producers/creators with complimentary full registration and travel grants of $1500 to attend the 2018 Banff World Media Festival, and receive mentorship while at the Festival. The participants selected are: Adam Brown Haunters ON Katie Uhlmann My Roommate’s [...]

April 16, 2018 - CALLING ALL CANADIAN WEB DRAMA SERIES PRODUCERS/CREATORS! Do you have a scripted digital drama series looking for partners, funders, platforms, distributors, strategies, brands, audiences? Do you think that you could benefit professionally by attending the Banff World Media Festival? The IPF (ipf.ca) has partnered with BANFF [...]

April 5, 2018 - The Independent Production Fund and its 40-member Pre-Selection Committee have selected 30 projects which are now eligible to advance to Phase 2 of the application process and apply for Production financing. These include 20 projects in English and 10 in French. Four web series previously funded by [...]