In September, Wendy Bernfeld participated as a jury member for the CMF, and the results were announced in the following release detailing the programming and jury members:
13.10.2010 | CMF Announces Experimental Stream First Round Results
http://www.cmf-fmc.ca/news-actualites.html
October 13, 2010 (Toronto) – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) today announced the first round results of its Experimental Stream. Twenty-seven projects were approved for production funding in the form of CMF equity investment commitments for a total of $12.9 million. While the average commitment is $478,000, three requests received the maximum $1 million. Twelve projects are in English, nine are French, and six are bilingual.
A total of $8.6 million and $4.3 million was committed to English and French production projects, respectively. Approved production applicants are based across Canada, with six from BC, one from Alberta, four from Toronto, one from Ontario excluding Toronto, twelve from Montréal, two from Quebec excluding Montréal, and one from PEI.
Approved production projects include twelve games, five websites, three mobile applications, three interactive web series, and four software applications.
For a list of approved production projects, projects approved for development funding and the profile of the jury, please click here.