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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – Ontario Creates-CMF IDM Futures Forward Program

The Ontario Creates-CMF IDM Futures
Forward Program is a partnership with Ontario Creates and the Canada Media Fund
(CMF) that provides funding for early-stage project-related development.


This program seeks to support companies that often have barriers to accessing project funding and to support the very beginning of a project’s creative process with the objective of giving a project a better chance to succeed in future stages of funding.


Deadline: December 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM ET

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD

Submissions for the Trillium Book Award for eligible titles published in 2024 (and 2023 titles for the Trillium Book Award for Children’s Literature in French language only) are now being accepted by Ontario Creates.


Deadlines:

January 31, 2025 – for titles published in November and December 2024

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: IDM Fund - Futures Forward Workshops

Ontario Creates IDM Fund: Futures Forward provides early-stage screen-based companies with access to the skills that they require to fast-track their knowledge acquisition and enhance the competitiveness of their companies through a series of courses administered by the following partner organizations:

· Afrotropolis Arts Collective

· BIPOC TV & FILM

· Hand Eye Society

· Interactive Ontario

· Webseries Canada

· Women in Film and Television – Toronto


Deadlines and timelines for each program vary.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: AcceleratiONThe core objective of the AcceleratiON program is to invest in new and emerging Black- and Indigenous-owned music businesses that demonstrate high potential for economic and cultural impact.


Funding will be provided to successful applicants in the form of direct business and creative development investments ranging from $2,500 to $20,000 to self-identifying Black- and Indigenous-owned businesses that generate the majority of their revenue from music-based activities.

Deadline: Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 5:00 PM ET