Innovation & Experimentation Program

Overview of the Innovation & Experimentation Program program:

This program offers to fund innovative and leading-edge projects involved with interactive digital media content and software applications.

Benefits of the Innovation & Experimentation Program program:

• By being funded by this program, you will have more access to tools that will allow you to improve your interactive digital media content and software applications.

Eligibility criteria of the Innovation & Experimentation Program program:

• To be eligible as an eligible applicant you must:
  • Meet the specific Eligible Applicant criteria noted in Program Guidelines (Download PDF)
  • Be Canadian-controlled as determined in sections 26 to 28 of the Investment Canada Act
  • Have your head office in Canada
  • Be in good standing with all applicable talent and industry associations and guilds
  • Have affirmed and attested that the Project submitted for funding complies with the CMFs Narrative Positioning Policy
  • Have registered for a PERSONA-ID https://cmf-fmc.ca/persona-id/ account(s) and have provided this account number as part of their Application.
  • Must own and control all rights necessary to produce and exploit the Eligible Project
• IMPORTANT: *Entities that provide services but do not own applicable rights are not eligible to apply to the CMF.*
• For your project to be eligible, it must:
  • Rights of ownership, significantly and meaningfully developed, by Canadians
  • It is conceptualized in Canada, with at least 75% of its Eligible Costs being Canadian costs
  • It is under Canadian ownership and Canadian executive, creative, and financial control