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| CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Asian Content and Film Market (Feature film producers - all genres - Coproduction) | Ontario Creates is partnering with Telefilm Canada on the Canadian presence at the Asian Content and Film Market. Please use the link to apply directly via Telefilm. Ontario Creates will be supporting producer attendance and strategic business activities at this market. The Canada Council for the Arts, the Embassy of Canada to the Republic of Korea and Telefilm Canada, with the support of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Creates and the Canadian Media Producers Associations (CMPA) are pleased to be collaborating with the Asian Contents & Film Market to have Canada as the focus country for the second edition of the Producer Hub at the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) taking place during the 30th Busan International Film Festival (“BIFF”).
Thursday, June 5, 2025 ET | |
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Ontario Music Investment Fund (OMIF)Global Market Development for Music Managers | Global Market Development for Music Managers provides eligible music management companies with funding to participate in domestic and international activities that correspond to a strategy for company growth. These activities must produce measurable business and market development results for the participating company (sales, financing, licensing and/or publishing deals, audience awareness, media coverage, partnership development, etc.). Primary activities supported are market event attendance and targeted business travel activities that support the market development strategy.
Deadline: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:00 PM ET | |
| CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Ontario Creates International Financing Forum (iff) September 7-8, 2025 | iff is Ontario Creates’ feature film co-financing and co-production event during the Toronto International Film Festival for independent producers and industry executives developing and financing English language projects for the world market. Now in its 20th year, iff has introduced hundreds of projects to the international marketplace with over 125 successfully financed to date. At iff 2024, Ontario Creates scheduled over 370 one-on-one meetings and organized exclusive networking opportunities between s elected Canadian and international producers and international sales agents, US distributors, equity financiers, agents and executive producers. Deadline for Canadian and International producers: June 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM ET | |
| CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Magazine Fund | The Ontario Creates Magazine Fund supports the business development of independent Ontario-based magazine publishers. Funds are provided to assist in the growth of these businesses through the creation and implementation of new strategic initiatives that enable publishers to achieve business development and/or marketing objectives. Eligible projects should have clear, objective and measurable results. Deadline: Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 5:00 PM ET | |
| CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Book Fund | Ontario Creates is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 cycle of the Book Fund. The Book Fund supports the business development of independent Ontario-based book publishers. Funding is provided for marketing initiatives that promote the works of Canadian authors to both foreign and domestic markets, as well as activities that enable publishers to build on their capacity to achieve business development goals. Eligible projects should have clear and measurable objectives.
Deadline: Monday, June 2, 2025 - 5:00 PM ET | |
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Ontario Music Investment Fund (OMIF) - Music Industry Initiatives (MII) | The OMIF MII stream provides support to Ontario’s established music trade associations and music service organizations to offer initiatives, events and activities that strengthen, support and stimulate the economic and cultural growth of Ontario’s music industry. Deadline: The OMIF MII stream has a continuous application intake until Thursday, October 23, 2025, 5:00 PM ET, or until all funds have been allocated. | |
| CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Ontario Music Investment Fund - Music Creation | The OMIF Music Creation stream supports the development of competitive, sustainable music companies in Ontario that take risks discovering and developing talent – particularly emerging artists – and bringing it to market. Music Creation provides funding to eligible domestic record labels*, multinational record labels and domestic music publishers to support business activities that are focused on: expanding artist rosters; investing in professional recording and production; facilitating job creation; undertaking export market development; enhancing business capacity; and increasing and strengthening diversity within Ontario's music industry. *Eligibility as a domestic record label may extend to high potential self-releasing BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) and Francophone artist-entrepreneurs. Deadline 2: Thursday September 11, 2025 - 5:00 PM ET (for activities taking place between August 1, 2025 and January 15, 2027) | |
The IP Fund combines the Film Fund and Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Fund into a single, integrated program that supports screen-based content creation by Ontario companies. Deadlines: Linear Content Stream September 25, 2025 – 5:00 PM ET Interactive Content Stream September 15, 2025 – 5:00 PM ET | ||
| CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR: ONTARIO CREATES IP MARKET DAY AT TIFF - CONTENT BUYERS (Film, Television, and Interactive Digital Media Companies) | The IP Market Day is a business development and networking event featuring Ontario's book, magazine, film, TV and interactive digital media sectors. This new event presents an opportunity to learn about critically acclaimed and award-winning book, magazine, and videogame content available for option. Hear an Onstage Pitch featuring Ontario’s best content, and participate in curated 1:1 meetings. The Onstage Pitch is open to all attendees, and you can select your preferred slot for curated B2B meetings in the application form. Content buyers will be booked for up to 6 curated meetings in your preferred meeting time. Individual meeting schedules will be provided prior to the date of the event. There will be a networking reception after the event to allow for additional informal relationship building between IP Market Day participants. Deadline: Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM. (Selected participants will be notified during the week of August 11, 2025.) |
| May | Ottawa Artists | |
| April | New Releases | |
| March | 2025 Ontario JUNO Award Nominees | |
| February | Love Songs | |
| January | Franco-Ontarian Artists | |
| December | Ontario Creates Winter 2024 | |
| November | New Releases | |
| October | Women's History Month | |
| September | 2024 Ontario Polaris Music Prize Nominees | |
| August | Peterborough Folk Festival - 35th Anniversary | |
| July | New Releases | |
| June | Black Music Month | |
| July | Honey Jam Mix - 30 Years of Sweet Vibes |
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