April 15, 2015 - The Cogeco Program Development Fund announces funding decisions for the March 2nd, 2015 application deadline. The Cogeco Fund is pleased to congratulate the following companies on receiving development and production financing for their projects: Development Program Production Program Production Company Broadcaster(s) Broken New Metric Media & [...]

The Independent Production Fund and its evaluators have reviewed the 195 proposals for web series funding which were submitted this year from across Canada. Over 40 industry professionals, consultants and advanced media students selected a short-list of twenty-seven (27) projects, including 16 English-language and 11 French-language web series. In addition, [...]

February 5, 2015 - Digital interactive producers and creators, find new opportunities to co-finance and co-produce your innovative projects in Paris in June 11-12, 2015! Take a chance to present your A/V digital projects in development to key International Commissioners during 6th edition of Cross Video Days Content Market in [...]

December 15, 2014 - The Cogeco Program Development Fund announces funding decisions for the October 1st, 2014 application deadline. The Cogeco Fund is pleased to congratulate the following companies on receiving pre-development, development, and production financing for MOW’s and dramatic series: Pre-development Program: Project Production Company Animal Talk Productions ToonDraw [...]

August 18, 2014 - The Cogeco Program Development Fund announces funding decisions for the July 2nd, 2014 application deadline. Cogeco Fund congratulates the following companies that have received funding for the production of their projects and those who received corporate slate funding for the development of feature films. Production Program [...]

June 20, 2014 - The IPF Board of Directors approved funding for 17 scripted drama series (11 English / 6 French) designed and produced for exploitation on the web. Four of the approved projects are renewals for new episodes of successful web series and thirteen are new series to be produced [...]

Toronto, June 18, 2014 - Five IPF funded web series selected for Marseille Web Fest: But I’m Chris Jericho, Guidestones II, SOS: Save Our Skins, Manigances: notice rouge and Projet M. But I’m Chris Jericho Guidestones SOS – Save Our Skins Manigances: notice rouge Projet‑M The Independent Production Fund is very [...]

March 31, 2014 - The Independent Production Fund evaluators in Toronto and Montreal reviewed the 188 applications for web series funding which were submitted this year from across Canada. Nearly 40 industry professionals, consultants and advanced media students selected a short-list of twenty-three (23) projects, including 14 proposed English-language and [...]

March 13, 2014 - During the past five years of funding Canadian dramatic web series, a body of knowledge has been developed and curated by the Independent Production Fund. The Guide to Web Series Best Practices offers state of the art know-how from producers who have successfully manoeuvred and survived [...]

December 2, 2013 - The Board of Directors of the Independent Production Fund (IPF) has renewed its commitment to support the production of web drama series. This funding program will continue indefinitely, and will be subject to review in response to the needs and expectations of this pioneering sector of [...]