Telefilm will accept one letter of recommendation from each of its 29 partners for the Micro-Budget Production Program.
If you are an emerging filmmaker in Canada, I believe this is your best shot at fully funding your first feature.
Check out the media co-ops in these cities:
- Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers
- Charlottetown: Island Media Arts Cooperative
- Edmonton: Film and Video Arts Society Alberta
- Fredericton: New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative
- Gatineau: Culture Outaouais
- Halifax: Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative
- Montreal: Wapikoni Mobile
- Ottawa: Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa
- Ottawa: SAW Video Media Art Centre
- Quebec: Spirafilm
- Regina: Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative
- St. John’s: Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Co-operative
- Vancouver: Cineworks
- Vancouver: Creative Women Workshops Association/Women in the Director’s Chair
- Victoria: CineVic Society of Independent Filmmakers
- Whitehorse: Yukon Film Society
- Winnipeg Film Group
- Yellowknife: Western Arctic Moving Pictures
My take: worth exploring!